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24.01.2022 Get feedback on your manuscript from an experienced editor and writing mentor. Write With Kelly is is offering one lucky Kickstarter supporter a full assessment for $375. This includes a read of the complete manuscript and the provision of practical recommendations on how to improve it. Plus a follow-up phone call to discuss the project. Normally you'd expect to pay up to $1000 for such an assessment, so this presents a fantastic opportunity for the aspiring writer. Kelly is ...a highly experienced teacher, editor and mentor, with more than 25 years in the business. She has assessed manuscripts from most genres, and mentored writers at all levels of ability. To find out more visit https://www.kickstarter.com//northern-beaches-readers-fest
22.01.2022 NBRF family member Kate Forsyth and her sister Belinda Murrell have an extraordinary new release coming on 1st November. The tale of Australia's first published children's book author, and soooo much more.... The blurb: For almost 140 years, the author of Australia's first book for children was a mystery. Known only by the descriptor 'a Lady Long Resident in New South Wales', she was the subject of much speculation. It was not until 1980, after a decade of sleuthing, that leg...Continue reading
22.01.2022 Congratulations to NBRF family member Michael Robotham, whose novel Good Girl Bad Girl has been shortlisted for the UK Gold Dagger award. Such a well-deserved nomination!!
19.01.2022 Check your inbox! We have just emailed our newsletter subscribers an exclusive preview of our author lineup for NBRF 2021. The pic below is a hint at one of our headline authors - a beloved Australian actress and author. If you haven't yet signed up for the newsletter, now's the time. Apart from being first to get all the important news and info about the Festival, our subscribers will also gain access to early bird tickets when they go on sale in August. Sign up here - https://www.nbrf.com.au/
19.01.2022 NBRF family member Rachael Johns shared the cover of her Nov release this week! Don't you just want to head to that little beach shack! The blurb.... They say a change is as good as a holiday...but what if you don't want either?... Is her family's happiness more important than her own? The first time Ashling Wood realises her marriage is on the rocks is when her husband, Adrian, suggests they try nest parenting. Heartbroken, Ash suddenly finds herself living a double life - one week with her children, the next cohabiting with her happily single sister-in-law. Her friends think the modern custody solution is an exciting opportunity for her to spread her wings, but all Ash wants is her family back together. An offer to renovate a seaside cottage seems like the perfect distraction for Ash while waiting for Adrian to come to his senses. She's determined to fix her marriage as well as the cottage, but life gets even more complicated when she meets local fisherman Dan Emerson. Soon, each home-stay becomes more dysfunctional, while for the other week Ash enjoys the peaceful life of the beachside community. The more time Ash spends in Ragged Point, the more she questions what she really wants. Is a sea-change the fresh start she needs to move on? When tragedy calls Ash back to the city, she's torn between the needs of her family and her future. Can her family life fit in with a permanent move to the beach or could Ash's new-found independence attract Adrian back to the nest?
18.01.2022 Happy launch day to NBRF family member Sally Hepworth. Her latest novel, The Good Sister, hits shelves today. You're going to want to put this one in your shopping trolley.. The blurb: There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.... Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be ... dangerous. When Rose discovers that she cannot fall pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple. Fern's mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich and shocking story of unexpected love.
18.01.2022 Chris Hammer - author 's latest release, Trust, hit the shelves recently. Have you got your hands on a copy yet? We at the festival are very excited about this one.
18.01.2022 NBRF family member Penelope Janu Author has released the cover for her 2021 book, Starting From Scratch. Secrets and romance - what more do you want? Available Jan 6th. The blurb:... After a troubled childhood and the loss of her beloved grandmother, Sapphie Brown finally finds somewhere to call home - the close-knit rural community of Horseshoe Hill. The locals love Sapphie because she never gives up - as chair of the environment committee, with the children in her classes, the troubled teens at the youth centre, the ex-racehorses she cares for and even the neglected farmhouse and gardens she wants make her own. Sapphie gives second chances to everything and everyone. Except Matts Laarkin. An impossibly attractive environmental engineer who travels the world, Matts was Sapphie's closest childhood friend. He came to deliver a warning - now he doesn't want to leave. All Sapphie wants to do is forget their painful past, but thrown together they discover an attraction that challenges what they thought they knew about each other. Do they have a chance to recapture what they lost so long ago? Or will long-buried secrets tear them apart? In the flowers she creates from paper and the beauty that grows on the land, Sapphie has found perfect imperfection. Could that be what love is like too? After a troubled childhood and the loss of her beloved grandmother, Sapphie Brown finally finds somewhere to call home - the close-knit rural community of Horseshoe Hill. The locals love Sapphie because she never gives up - as chair of the environment committee, with the children in her classes, the troubled teens at the youth centre, the ex-racehorses she cares for and even the neglected farmhouse and gardens she wants make her own. Sapphie gives second chances to everything and everyone. Except Matts Laarkin. An impossibly attractive environmental engineer who travels the world, Matts was Sapphie's closest childhood friend. He came to deliver a warning - now he doesn't want to leave. All Sapphie wants to do is forget their painful past, but thrown together they discover an attraction that challenges what they thought they knew about each other. Do they have a chance to recapture what they lost so long ago? Or will long-buried secrets tear them apart? In the flowers she creates from paper and the beauty that grows on the land, Sapphie has found perfect imperfection. Could that be what love is like too?
14.01.2022 Congratulations to 2 NBRF family members for their shortlisting in the 2020 Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction. Petronella McGovern - Author - shortlisted for Best Debut Crime Fiction for Six Minutes Christian White - shortlisted for Best Crime Fiction for The Wife And The Widow... If you like crime fiction and haven't read these titles yet, grab a copy and see for yourselves why these stunning novels are shortlisted.
13.01.2022 Congratulations NBRF family member Petronella McGovern - Author for being shortlisted in two categories for the Davitt Awards for best crime/mystery book for Six Minutes. Sooooooooo well deserved. See the full shortlist here https://www.sistersincrime.org.au/davitt-awards-shortlist/
12.01.2022 We are starting to put together our newsletter for subscribers to let them know our incredible author lineup for 2021 (sign up for it here - https://www.nbrf.com.au/tickets) but in the meantime, we're inviting you to play a little game of 'Guess Who's Coming to NBRF?' We can tell you that one of our authors is an internationally bestselling crime writer whose books have been translated into 25 languages and published in over 50 countries. This writer's very first novel was th...e subject of a bidding war at the London Book Fair and sold over a million copies around the world. Since then, a number of the author's books have been adapted for television and won significant literary awards. This author also happens to be a Northern Beaches local. Who do you think it is? (Sign up for the Newsletter if you really want to get the answer! https://www.nbrf.com.au/tickets) #northernbeachesreadersfestival #literaryfestival #booklovers #NBRF #bookstagram #crimewriter
11.01.2022 NBRF Family member Joanna Nell Author shared the cover of her Oct release this week. Isn't charming?!?!? Congratulations Jo :) The blurb... At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her 'room with a view' of the carpark, she dreams of escape.... Fellow 'inmate', the gregarious, would-be comedian Walter Clements also plans on returning home as soon as he is fit and able to take charge of his mobility scooter. When Hattie and Walter officially meet at The Night Owls, a clandestine club run by Sister Bronwyn and her dog, Queenie, they seem at odds. But when Sister Bronwyn is dismissed over her unconventional approach to aged care, they must join forces -- and very slowly an unlikely, unexpected friendship begins to grow. Full of wisdom and warmth, The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home is a gorgeously poignant, hilarious story showing that it is never too late to laugh -- or to love.
11.01.2022 Congratulations to NBRF family member Rachael Johns Author, who this week WON the 2020 Romance Writers of Australia Ruby Award - Romantic Elements, for her novel Just One Wish. Make sure you read this engrossing and wise novel about ambition, choices and what it means to be a woman.
11.01.2022 Congratulations NBRF family member Michael Robotham on taking out the 2020 Gold Dagger British Crime Writers' Assoc award. We at the festival love this book. If you haven't read it yet, treat yourself!
10.01.2022 THREE PITCH OPPORTUNITIES LEFT! Would you like to pitch your manuscript to the world's largest trade publishing house? Here's your chance. As part of our Kickstarter fundraising campaign, we're offering three aspiring writers the chance to pitch to Penguin publisher, Beverly Cousins, via Zoom videoconferencing on the morning of Wednesday 30th June (exact time TBC). At the time of your appointment, you will be admitted to the meeting 'room' and will have five minutes of pitching time. Beverly is looking for women’s fiction (including edgy younger women’s fiction, and third age), family drama, historical fiction (particularly 19th and 20th century), crime and thrillers. If you've got your manuscript polished and ready to go, then what are you waiting for? https://www.kickstarter.com//northern-beaches-readers-fest
10.01.2022 NBRF family member Chris Hammer - author shared the cover of his October release this week. Are you excited? We are!! Congratulations Chris. The blurb... She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her.... Martin Scarsden's new life seems perfect, right up until the moment it's shattered by a voicemail: a single scream, abruptly cut off, from his partner Mandalay Blonde. Racing home, he finds an unconscious man sprawled on the floor and Mandy gone. Someone has abducted her. But who, and why? So starts a twisting tale of intrigue and danger, as Martin probes the past of the woman he loves, a woman who has buried her former life so deep she has never mentioned it. And for the first time, Mandy finds denial impossible, now the body of a mystery man has been discovered, a man whose name she doesn't know, a man she was engaged to marry when he died. It's time to face her demons once and for all; it's time she learned how to trust. Set in a Sydney riven with corruption and nepotism, privilege and power, Trust is the third riveting novel from award-winning and internationally acclaimed writer Chris Hammer.
10.01.2022 Do you love cover reveals? We here at the festival do! And NBRF family member Tabitha Ann Bird- Author has just shared this beauty for her March 2021 release. Check out that blurb too!! We're excited.
09.01.2022 Congratulations NBRF family member Tabitha Ann Bird- Author on your shortlist for the Queensland Book of the Year Awards for A Lifetime of Impossible Days. So very well deserved. We are so thrilled for you. The full list and voting details can be found here... https://www.slq.qld.gov.au//qu/courier-mail-peoples-choice
08.01.2022 NBRF family member, Petronella McGovern - Author shared the cover of her September release this week.... The Good Teacher. Isn't it stunning!!! Keep your eyes open for this one.... the blurb... A good teacher can change lives...... Every evening, Allison watches her husband's new house, desperate to find some answers. Every morning, she puts on a brave face to teach kindergarten. She's a good teacher, everyone says so - this stalking is just a tiny crack in her usual self-control. A late enrolment into her class brings little Gracie - sick and grieving. Allison takes the girl and her father, Luke, under her wing. She smothers Gracie with the love she can't give her own son. As others question her judgement and the police arrive at her door, Allison starts to wonder if she can trust herself. When Gracie has a chance to go to America for treatment, Allison leads the school in a fundraising drive. But why is Luke so reluctant? Has Allison crossed a line? Who really has Gracie's best interests at heart? How far will the good teacher go to save a life? And whose life will that be? An intriguing tale of our times about kindness and betrayal, and the danger of good deeds.
07.01.2022 A big thanks to our crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, for nominating the Northern Beaches Readers Festival as a #projectwelove. Kickstarter is all about bringing creative projects to life by harnessing community support. Our campaign is all about giving readers and writers enhanced opportunities to further their love of reading and writing. The money raised will go directly to funding our Festival and paying costs like author appearance fees. If you haven't already checked out the campaign, here's the link https://www.kickstarter.com//northern-beaches-readers-fest
07.01.2022 Congratulations to Penelope Janu Author and Jessica Dettmann Author on your new releases this week!! If you're in a post Christmas funk these two gorgeous books will lift you right out!
06.01.2022 Looking for space and time to write your next book? Are you part of a writing group in desperate need of a retreat? Looking to take your writing to the next level with workshops from two bestselling Australian authors? Or, do you just need a break from the grind? We have the answer! As part of our Kickstarter campaign we are offering an exclusive opportunity to spend 3 days and 2 nights in a beach house on the NSW South Coast for up to 6 people. Writing workshops are include...d in the price, but entirely optional. Located 500 metres from pristine Mollymook beach and a short-drive from the historic town of Milton, this is an ideal place to work on your next writing project. With three bedrooms (all linen included), 3 bathrooms, a fully equipped kitchen, spacious deck with ocean views, gas heating, Nespresso coffee machine and more. Please note: this does not include any meals or beverages (tea and coffee can be supplied). Book entirely for yourself or with a group of mates, or your writing group, the choice is yours. What are you waiting for? Click here for more info https://www.kickstarter.com//northern-beaches-readers-fest
05.01.2022 Happy publication day to NBRF family member Petronella McGovern - Author. This is getting some good press already....
05.01.2022 NBRF family member Jessica Dettmann Author has shared the cover of her January '21 release! And we're excited.... The blurb: Family is forever, and there's nothing you can do about it.... The charming, hilarious and all-too-relatable new novel from the author of How to be Second Best Molly's a millennial home organiser about to have her first baby. Obviously her mum, Annie, will need to help with the childcare. Everyone else's parents are doing it. But Annie's dreams of music stardom have been on hold for thirty years, paused by childbirth then buried under her responsibilities as a mother, wage earner, wife, and only child of ailing parents. Finally, she can taste freedom. As Molly and her siblings gather in the close quarters of the family home over one fraught summer, shocking revelations come to light. Everyone is forced to confront the question of what it means to be a family. This Has Been Absolutely Lovely is a story about growing up and giving in, of parents and children, of hope and failure, of bravery and defied expectation, and the question of whether it is ever too late to try again. Release date : Jan 6th
04.01.2022 We are SO close to finalising our author line up for NBRF 2021! We have some INCREDIBLE names to reveal - and you can be first to find out by signing up for our newsletter here - https://www.nbrf.com.au/tickets Apart from being first to find out who's coming, newsletter subscribers will also gain access to early-bird ticketing when the full program is released in August.
02.01.2022 Happy publication day to NBRF family member Joanna Nell Author. Her new release, The Great Escape From Woodlands Nursing Home, is out today. You're sure to fall in love with Hattie and Walter. The blurb: The joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of mega-bestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village... At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her 'room with a view' of the carpark, she dreams of escape. Fellow 'inmate', the gregarious, would-be comedian Walter Clements also plans on returning home as soon as he is fit and able to take charge of his mobility scooter. When Hattie and Walter officially meet at The Night Owls, a clandestine club run by Sister Bronwyn and her dog, Queenie, they seem at odds. But when Sister Bronwyn is dismissed over her unconventional approach to aged care, they must join forces -- and very slowly an unlikely, unexpected friendship begins to grow. Full of wisdom and warmth, The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home is a gorgeously poignant, hilarious story showing that it is never too late to laugh -- or to love.
02.01.2022 Congratulations NBRF family member Tabitha Ann Bird- Author for winning the Courier Mail People's Choice Book of the Year Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. So well deserved!!!!
01.01.2022 Candice Fox is an internationally bestselling crime author of 14 novels - and your name could be used for a character in the next one! That's right - YOUR name in a book that's going to travel the world and thrill thousands and thousands of crime fiction lovers. This is an exclusive reward for ONE lucky backer in our Kickstarter campaign. To find out more about this special opportunity, go to https://www.nbrf.com.au/ and click the Kickstarter button, or follow this link https://www.kickstarter.com//northern-beaches-readers-fest @candicefoxauthor Candice Fox #candicefox #writingfestival #literaryfestival #specialopportunity #kickstartercampaign #projectwelove
