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Dear Rach & Soph

Bestselling Australian authors Rachael Johns (The Other Bridget, The Patterson Girls) and Sophie Green (Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society, The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle) talk about writing and books and all sorts of things - and they welcome questions from other writers and readers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:40

Making a creative career change - with guest Miranda...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/07/12

Some people will make a change from a ‘conventional’ career path to a creative career; some will move from one form of creative practice to another. Melburnian Miranda Nation has done both.After commencing studies in medicine at university, Miranda instead decided to pursue a creative life, training as an actor atat Jacques Lecoq in Paris from 2003 to 2005, then becoming a director and screenwriter,completing a Graduate Diploma in Directing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in

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1:01:04

Productivity, plot twists and personal growth: Inside...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/07/05

Léonie Kelsall is the bestselling author of seven rural romance novels. Her eighth isThe Path Through the Coojong Trees, has just been released. Léonie keeps a fast pace as a writer, currently producing two books a year while also running a counselling practice and running a farm that is home to many animals.We wanted to talk toLéonie about the relationship between her counselling work, in particular, and her writing but – as often happens – this chat covered a lot of other territory, including

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1:25:06

The Biggest Disappointment - with guest Allison Tait

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/06/28

This episode is long and all of it worth your attention, mostly because Allison Tait - who writes as A.L. Tait - is one of the most dynamic people working in Australian writing and publishing, and you can find her bio below. Also because it’s an unusual conversation we have for some of it - and that’s because Allison talks about her contemporary women’s fiction book being rejected by its publisher after it was accepted for publication and she did more work on it. The extra angle is that Sophie was

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53:56

Writer 'therapy': Stuck in the draft! With guest Mona...

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2025/06/21

Dear listeners-slash-viewers - or ‘liewers’, as Soph has taken to calling you - this episode was recorded in April and because Soph mentioned her upcoming appearance at the Festival of Fiction in it, we had to hold it until the festival was announced, which has just happened! And the reason we mention the festival is that our guest, Mona Farrokhi, is involved with the festival.Mona volunteered a little while ago for writer ‘therapy’, in which writers bring us their writerly challenge and we try to

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1:09:04

Writing fiction about a real person, with guest...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/06/14

Kimberley Freeman is an award-winning writer in children’s, historical and speculative fiction under her birth name Kim Wilkins. She has written several bestselling novels, including Wildflower Hill, Evergreen Falls and Stars Across the Ocean. Her latest novel is The Secret Year of Zara Holt, published by Hachette Australia (read more about the novel below).Kim has an Honours degree, a Masters degree and a PhD from The University of Queensland where she is also a senior lecturer. There is very

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13:40

Your next favourite read might be in this episode!

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/06/07

Welcome to our atypical episode in which co-hosts Rachael Johns and Sophie Green do not chat amongst ourselves or with guests but, instead, tell you all about some wonderful new books to put on your TBR list or in the TBR pile. They’re organised by genre, as Soph learnt her lesson the first time we did this and shall never again attempt to present them haphazardly.All these books are by Australian (and one New Zealand) author and released in the month of June 2025.GENERAL FICTIONTitle: Rise and

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1:03:18

How to write 25+ books - with guest Karly Lane

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2025/06/01

Karly Lane is the bestselling author of 25 rural romance novels - the latest of which is NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK (blurb below) - which have sold over 600 000 copies. When Sophie was a literary agent Karly was her client, but they never actually met, as Karly lives on the mid north coast of New South Wales and at the time she had young children and was fitting in writing books around all the demands of running a household.It turns out Karly’s pace has not slowed, as she’s writing two books a year, and

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1:16:09

Plotless novels, genre creep & the art of children's...

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2025/05/25

It was Rach who suggested we invite award-winning children’s author, literary agent and writing teacher Danielle Binks onto the podcast. I know Danielle, as we’ve both worked in the publishing industry for years - and we are both industry professionals who have published multiple books - plus I’ve spoken to her RMIT class.The reason Rach wanted to invite her on the pod, though, was to talk about plotless novels, which Danielle says she loves to read and teach but cannot write. When I contacted

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1:04:53

A new literary agent talks book marketing - with...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/05/18

This week’s episode wasn’t planned, in that the list of subjects Rachael Johns and I want to cover on the podcast did not include talking to a new literary agent with a background in book marketing - simply because not many new agents come along.Until recently Chloe Berry worked at HQ/HarperCollins, where she masterminded their digital marketing and appeared in quite a bit of it - if you follow them on socials you’ll know her. Chloe also has her own bookish social accounts - @chloeraebooks on TikTok

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1:00:40

Perfectionism and procrastination and writing crime -...

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2025/05/11

This week we have a wonderful guest, Dinuka McKenzie, who was willing to talk about perfectionism and procrastination, paired subjects that have been on our list for a while … not that we were procrastinating about discussing them (or were we??).Dinuka was honest about her perfectionism and how it affects her writing, for good and bad, and the good includes the Detective Kate Miles crime series, with novels The Torrent, Taken and Tipping Point published in Australia and the UK.Dinuka was the winner

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16:23

All the May 2025 book releases you need to know about!

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/05/03

New books mentioned in this episode:General fictionThe Remarkable Truth of Alfie Bains by Sarah Clutton (Allen & Unwin)Lonely Mouthby Jacqueline Maley (HarperCollins)Everything Lost, Everything Foundby Matthew Hooton (HarperCollins)The Good Mistress by Anne Tiernan (Hachette) – NZ authorBoom Town Snap by Jay Martin (Fremantle Press)RomanceSalty, Spiced and a Little Bit Nice by Cynthia Timoti (Pan Macmillan)Last Breath (Blood Wine Dynasty Book 2) by Emma Pignatiello (Penguin Random House)Needle

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1:12:32

Why the World Needs Your Creativity | with guest Amie...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/04/27

There have been several well-known books written about creativity. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is a classic. Rachael and I talked about Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic in an episode last year. Both of them deserve the hype and longevity, and there are others too of course.None of the books I’ve read about creativity or writing, even a book that might be classified as inspirational self-help (or perhaps I just made up that category), has quite the combination of warmth, compassion, urgency and

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1:04:59

Season 3, episode 5 - Scrivener: The cases for - with...

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2025/04/19

‘It’s solving overwhelm’.Our guest this week, novelist Karina May, is an experienced user of writing software Scrivener and the above is one of the reasons why she uses it. Rachael has tried using it; I never have. Will I be convinced to try by the end of this episode? Listen and find out!We cover this subject because we like to have a theme to these episodes, and mainly because we thought it would be interesting and useful to chat about. And we also wanted to talk to Karina about her latest novel,

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1:01:25

Season 3, episode 4 - 'Writer therapy' with guest...

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2025/04/05

Not that long ago I put a message on social media basically saying that Rachael Johns says she gets ‘writing therapy’ from me and asking if anyone else would like some. We had responses! Thus, this will be the first of several episodes of such ‘therapy’ [NB: neither Rach nor I is a therapist, although teaching yoga can feel like it sometimes].Our guest for this episode is Emily Paull, whose debut novel, The Distance Between Dreams, is historical fiction and out now from Fremantle Press. Like Rach,

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40:17

Season 3, episode 3 - April new releases

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/03/29

This is our first episode dedicated to books that are being released, as we’d like you to know what’s coming out so you can find your next favourite read!As it’s the first one, and organised quickly, there’s no order to how we present the books, other than sequestering April titles from titles released between January and March (as we decided to do those too). Please note that these are the titles we were told about and the list is not comprehensive.Unfortunately there isn't space here to list all

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1:21:29

Season 3, episode 2: Guest Catherine Greer on writing...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/03/22

We like to have a subject on Dear Rach & Soph, so when we learnt about Sydney author(originally from Canada) Catherine Greer and her novel The Bittersweet Bakery Cafe (Allen & Unwin, March 2025), and saw her website Love Our Age, we asked if she’d be interested in talking about stories for women in later life. What followed was a wide-ranging conversation about Catherine’s life, her interests as a writer, and her extensive writing background, which includes several works of non-fiction -

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1:17:27

Season 3, episode 1: All the questions

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/03/15

When we started Dear Rach & Soph last year, we named it that because we hoped readers (and writers) would send us questions. For this first episode of season 3, we have mainly reader questions to answer and one writer question. Plus we generally have a chat, per usual.Coming up this season we have some fabulous guests to talk about a range of subjects and we’ve had some writers volunteer for ‘writer therapy’ so you’ll see/hear that too. Plus we’re adding an episode a month to cover newly

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1:10:14

Bonus episode: The Bad Bridesmaid

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2025/01/28

Rachael Johns has a brand new book! And it is called THE BAD BRIDESMAID. Those who read and loved Rachael’s novel THE OTHER BRIDGET, which was released last year, will recognise the character Fred, who is Bridget/Bee’s best friend. In THE BAD BRIDESMAID (TBB for short) Fred has the starring role. TBB is a delightful rom com that you will not want to finish, and has a quite lovely hero in the form of Leo.You can find a blurb for TBB on a gazillion bookseller websites so we're not going to reproduce

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1:21:01

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 15 - Christmas...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/12/14

We had such a great time chatting to Rachael Treasure on episode 10 of this season that we thought, heyyyyy - let’s ask her back! And we also wanted to have her back because in that first chat we barely scratched the surface of the richness of Rachael T’s life and endeavours.In this episode we catch up on Rachael T’s latest daring adventures, as well as talk about what we’ll be reading over the Christmas break [NB: we recorded the ep in late November as it was the only time the three of us were

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1:00:11

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 14 - Award winners...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/12/07

This week Rach and Soph discuss the Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey and also delve into whether or not we usually read award-winning books and why/why not. We’d love to know if you read them or do not, and why, so please let us know in the comments!Also for the comments: an answer to a question Sophie poses near the start … about the title of her 2025 novel. It was to be called one thing - a title she gave it at inception - but now it’s not. There are some options. Which should

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