Cruisin’ with RWA

Enrico and Clint have packed their bags, handed in the limo keys and are off on an adventure. Thank you for joining us on Cruisin’ with RWA. We’ve had a great time over the last few years following your blogs, sharing and celebrating with you. I’m sure our new ‘driver’ will have fun entertaining you with our member news and blogs. So don’t go away because Cruisin’ will be back!

Member News

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• DB Tait

Keziah Hill’s good news is a two book romantic suspense deal with Momentum. Both books are part of a new series set in the Blue Mountains. They are her first novel-length books and will be published under the pen name DB Tait. The first book is called Cold Deception.

• Maggie Mundy

Blood Oath, Book 2 in The Seeker Chronicles released this week. Blood Oath is a sequel to Blood Scent.

• Rebecca Raisin

Cover reveal for Christmas Wedding at the Gingerbread Cafe

• E E Carter

Launched the video trailer for Warrior’s Surrender

Cruisin’ Member Blogs

Are you an RWA Member? Share a link and a short blurb here each week by emailing the details to us at: cruisin@romanceaustralia.com.

• AusRomToday

September 18 – AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Anna Romer

September 19 – FINDING MY VOICE: Mae Archer

September 19 – AusRomToday Weekly Wrap Up

September 22 – WIP ME INSPIRED: Sasha Cottman

September 23 – AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Rachel Amphlett

September 24 – AT MY DESK: Amanda Canham

• Breathless in the Bush

The merits and perils of the Internet

• Cathryn Hein

Thanks to much-loved Australian rural romance author Fiona Palmer, this week Friday Feast is living la dolce vita. Fiona reveals the pizza making tips she learned while researching her latest release, The Sunnyvale Girls. Plus you could win a copy of this bellissimo book by sharing your favourite Italian dish. Mama mia, now that’s a prize!

• Darkside Down Under

Enchanted Orb with Leisl Leighton

• Hunter Romance Writers

Researching for your Genre with Sandie James

• Keziah Hill

My guest this week on Write Bytes is Mel Tescho who doesn’t know the meaning of the word exercise, a word that I think many writers have trouble with

• Sara Hood

Social media swamping you? Be a social media heretic: five tips to take back control.
An awful lot of nonsense is talked about social media. How you have to be always on. If you don’t you’ll miss out. How you need to be on all platforms at once. All the time. That’s ridiculous. And completely not possible. Anyone who tries risks ulcers and a nervous collapse. This blog post shows you five simple ways to take back control. So that social media becomes what it should be: a means to an end. Not an occupation in its own right.

• Sandra Antonelli

When Good Characters Behave Badly

• S E Gilchrist

Excavating your Emotions in your Writing

• The Escapades

6 Reasons why Science Fiction is the new Paranormal

• The Other Side

September 20 – Review of An Unsuitable Match by Sasha Cottman

September 21 – Review of Lesbian for a Year by Brooke Hemphill

RWA Contests

 Dates for the 2014-15 contest season

Ripping Start	Opens 1 September 2014 Closes 26 September 2014
Selling Synopsis	Opens 1 October 2014 Closes 24 October 2014
Emerald Award	Opens 1 November 2014 Closes 21 November 2014
Little Gems	Opens 1 January 2015 Closes 23 January 2015
First Kiss	Opens 24 January 2015 Closes 14 February 2015
Valerie Parv Award	TBA April 2015

Enrico’s Pick Six

Submit your blog site link to cruisin@romanceaustralia.com to share with our readers.

1. Anne Whitfield
2. Christine Wells
3. Hot Authors
4. Janet Elizabeth Henderson
5. Kylie Scott
6. Louise Cusack

Have a great week and happy writing!

Thank you to all who followed and supported me on my Cruisin’ journey. I made many friends here and look forward to sharing your news and posts from the other side of the blog. 🙂

Hugs, Juanita

Posted by Juanita Kees on September 25, 2014

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