20. On kissing
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What makes a great 'kissing book'? We talk to Anna Campbell and Kylie Scott, two leading writers of romance novels, about spirited heroines, suspense, banter, intellectual equality, drama, subtext, laughter, sexual tension, feminism, tropes, and happy endings.
Kylie Scott is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. She was twice voted Australian Romance Writer of the year by the Australian Romance Writer's Association, writes across different genres, and her books have been translated into eleven different languages.
Her books include the Flesh, Stage Dive and Dive Bar series, the YA romance Trust, and novellas including Colonist's Wife and the upcoming 1001 Dark Nights.
Photo by Robyn Hills
Anna Campbell is an award-winning writer of Regency romance. Her books, series, and novellas have been published in twenty countries.
Anna's first novel, Claiming the Courtesan, was the Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year. Since then, her books have gone onto win many awards from the Golden Quill to the RITA Award. Her latest is The Christmas Stranger.
14. On Austen
February 22, 2017 February 24, 2017 Kelly Gardiner 1 Comment
It's two hundred years since Jane Austen died at the age of only 41. The bicentenary will be commemorated all year with events, conferences, festivals and of course books.
We spoke to two writers about Austen's legacy and her influence on them – and on so many of us.
Alison Goodman's most recent novel is The Dark Days Pact, the second in the Lady Helen trilogy of supernatural Regency adventures. The first book, The Dark Days Club, was an NPR Best Book of 2016, and the third volume is on the way.
Alison is also the author of the award winning and New York Times bestselling duology EON and EONA, Singing the Dogstar Blues and an adult thriller, A New Kind of Death.
You can read about Alison's Regency research on her website.
Kylie Mirmohamadi is a researcher at La Trobe University who specialises in cultural and literary studies. She has written extensively on literary sensations from Lady Audley's Secret to Dickens to Harry Potter.
Her book The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen: Janeites at the Keyboard, looks at the world of online Jane Austen fan fiction.
Jane Austen was born in 1775 and her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published in 1811, followed in quick succession by Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously.
Jennifer Ehle as Lizzy and David Bamber as Mr Collins in the 1995 series of Pride and Prejudice
Austen 200 events include:
Immortal Austen conference, Flinders University, July 2017
Chawton House exhibitions and events
Jane Austen Society of Australia bicentenary events
Jane Austen Society of the UK conference
Jane Austen Society of North America events.