Cruisin’ with RWA
Welcome back to Cruisin’. We hope you’ve enjoyed the break. Blog chauffeurs Enrico and Clint have been working hard to polish the limo while we overhaul the blog. Drop us an email at cruisin@romanceaustralia.com or comment below and let us know what you think.
Cruisin’ the News
Share your good news with us each week and we’ll join you in your happy dance.
- New releases
Maree Anderson has released the second book in the CRYSTAL WARRIORS series, RUBY’S DREAM.
- Debut Novels
- New contract
- New covers
- Re-releases
- New blog site or web page
Cruisin’ Member Blogs
Race along the blogging highway – we love reading our members’ blogs. Share a link and a short blurb here each week by emailing the details to us at: cruisin@romanceaustralia.com
A light-hearted look at gardening – Cats, Books and Life
November 17 – Magic Thursday: Cathleen Ross with a giveaway of a copy of one of her titles
November 19 – Darklight On … Angela Castle
November 21 – Magic Monday – Kylie Griffin with Are You A Paranormal Groupie?
November 22 – Good News Day
November 23 – Winner of Cathleen’s ebook
November 24 – Magic Thursday – Nicky Strickland talks Joss
November 26 – Darklight On…Eleni Konstantine
November 14 – GUEST AUTHOR: Bronwen Evans (historical romance)
November 17 – ROFL Moment – for all Star Wars fans!
November 22 – “The Year of Publishing a Book” (part 1) – a year in and what does a new author have to contend with once she gets that elusive publishing contract? Well, here are some answers…
November 26 – “The Year of Publishing a Book” (part 2) – one author’s experience of the publishing process.
November 29 – “For the first time…” – a first kiss, a first date, a first story, a first milestone and other achievements…
Escape to the past – Australian Romance writers of castles, love and legends…
November 21 – Getting to Know Anne Oliver and THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT A REBEL
Andrew McKiernan’s writing habits
Nas Dean plays host to inspiring authors every week. This week Michelle Fayard is under Nas’s spotlight.
November 22 – Special guest blogger: multi-published Mills & Boon author, Kate Hardy. Kate is blogging about Prologues and Epilogues, and there’s a giveaway for one lucky commenter.
A look at craving time at the Teen Fiction Café
Wendy is relatively new to the blogosphere, writing romance in Paradise. Her recent blog ‘Moving along but slowly’ is a delightful take on being a ‘teenager’ in the creative writing field.
RWA Merry Webber Blogs
The merry group of web volunteers blogging for RWA:
November 18 – Blog Bite with Barbara Hannay – Kerri Williams
November 19 – Bestsellers List – Tamara Gill
November 20 – Event Announcements – Juanita Kees
November 24 – Cruisin’ with RWA – Juanita Kees
Clint’s Cruisin’ Lane
Clint has a lot of spare time on his hands as substitute driver in Enrico’s absence. Share your blogs of interest with him here to keep him out of mischief.
- Looking for some interesting character traits and a perfect match for your hero or heroine? Astrology pages are a great way to develop or design personalities.
- In Search of Humor: The Classic Running Gag – Darcy Pattison explores the art of adding humour to a novel.
- Test your skills at Write101.com
- Take a well-earned break from those draining writing sessions – try an on-line Crossword Puzzle with Lovatts.
Enrico’s Pick Six
Every week Enrico chooses six of our members’ blog sites from the list on the right so that all our regular bloggers have their moment in the headlights (or should that be spotlight?) Members are welcome to email us the link to their sites and we will add it to the list. Enrico’s Pick Six this week:
Cruisin’ for Contests
Improve your writing and publishing opportunities by entering the RWA contests.
October 28 – November 25, 2011 Emerald Award
January 6 – January 27, 2012 Little Gems
January 20 – February 17, 2012 First Kiss
March/April 2012 (TBA) Valerie Parv Award
Other Contests
If you know of another writing contest for aspiring authors, please share it with us here
Cruisin’ the Learning Highway
Discover new roads to success with in-person and on-line events announced every Sunday. For venue, date and cost information, please also visit our Events page.
Keeping up Appearances
Do you have a guest appearance, launch or blog tour coming up? We’d like to share your celebration here. Simply email us the details and we’ll help you keep up appearances.
RWA Notices /Events
Follow the link to our Events Page for more news on the Gold Coast Conference 2012.
Enrico’s quote of the week
Enrico is such a romantic! He’ll be sharing words of wisdom with us here each week. I think he’s hoping for an invite to chauffeur at the Gold Coast conference in 2012!
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm (Quote Garden)
Until next week,
Regards Juanita
Romance Writers of Australia 
Eleni Konstantine
/ November 18, 2011Happy moving day! Glad to see you all make it safe across.
Juanita Kees
/ November 18, 2011LOL, thanks Eleni 😀