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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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1:12:09

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 13 - Book...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/11/30

From time to time on this pod and elsewhere Rachael Johns mentions her virtual assistant, Annie Bucknall. Through her business Well Creative Annie helps Rach with her social media, website and newsletter, and recently moved that newsletter to Substack.Rach and Soph have been talking about Substack, especially about the fact that there’s a lot of book coverage on there at a time when book coverage is disappearing from mainstream media. We have read some opinion pieces (on Substack) about how

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56:56

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 12 - Do you read...

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2024/11/23

We like to have a subject to speak about on this podcast, even when we have a guest. Rach raised the idea of ‘do you read your own reviews?’ and said she had one guest in mind: Sally Hepworth. Sally not only reads reviews of her books but is especially fond of the one-star reviews, as she talks about in this episode. Indeed, she is very fond of one-star reviews. And she and Rach both very much do not like three-star reviews. You’ll have to listen to find out whether or not Soph pays attention to

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1:06:32

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 11 - All about...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/11/16

BookTok is now an entrenched part of bookselling and publishing - it is not a temporary glitch, as it may have appeared to be during the pandemic when readers were looking for escapism. The genres that are at the core of BookTok - romance and romantasy - remain popular, and may have been said to have increased in popularity. Certainly TikTok isn’t going away and nor is #booktok.Rach and Soph wanted to find out more about the phenomenon from someone who has been involved in it for a while: Sophie's

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1:13:01

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 10 - With special...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/11/09

From Sophie:I metRachael Treasurefor the first time in the middle of this year on the Gold Coast, as we were both attending authors at Rachael Johns's Readers Retreat. I've read Rachael T's books, including her now-classicJillaroo, which can be said to be the first ever rural romance (even though she wouldn't necessarily classify it as that). To say that Rachael T is a delightful human being is to seriously undersell her. She is whimsical, hilarious, astute, generous and hugely warm hearted, as well

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1:03:30

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 9 - Our favourite...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/11/02

Thanks to lovely reader Elaine in New Zealand, whom Rach and Soph both met at the RJ Book Club Readers Retreat on the Gold Coast this year, for this question that Rach and I answer in this week’s episode:‘Which has been the book you've written that you've most enjoyed writing, and did reader feedback reflect your own feelings?’There’s a bit in there about the one time Soph drew heavily on her own near-death experience to for a chapter in THE SHELLY BAY LADIES SWIMMING CIRCLE and then subsequently

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56:08

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 8 - Listener...

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2024/10/26

Sometimes Rachael Johns and I wonder if we have any listeners/viewers (well, not really - I can see the stats so I know you're out there, and thank you for listening/watching!). Then a question or two comes in and, lo, we are reassured that there are, indeed, listeners/viewers. Such is the case with this week's episode, in which Rach answers a question from Nina Kenwood about community building and we both answer a question from a listener who wished to remain anonymous. That question is about lack

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1:02:32

Season 2, episode 7 - Craft books

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2024/10/19

This week we talk about writing craft books. Rach loves them - indeed, she collects them, and if you watch this episode on video you’ll see the collection. She’s also read a lot of them. Soph have not read too many but likes what she's read thus far.Possibly the most important information we could convey in this post is the list of books mentioned in the episode, and this is it in the order of mentioning:Save the Cat! by Blake SnyderSave the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica BrodyPride and Prejudice:

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55:54

Season 2, episode 6 - In which Soph is Rach's...

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2024/10/12

Dear Rach & Soph - podcastHosted by bestselling Australian novelists Rachael Johns and Sophie GreenRach is currently writing a book about twins who are adopted. As can happen for an author, she needed to do some research. Which is where Soph comes in … she's adopted. It’s not something you’ll find in her author bio because for her it’s a mundane fact. She's always known. But it is out of the ordinary, and it is complex, and there is often heartbreak on at least one side of it, and there can be

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44:40

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 5 - Points of view

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2024/10/05

This week on the podcast Rachael Johns and Sophie Green talk about points of view in novels: first, third - and the little-seen second (and Sophie cites Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney as an example of this point of view). We also discuss use of past and present tense within these points of view, and whether the point of view (and tense) choose us or we choose them.So this is a 'craft' episode, and we do get feedback from listeners that you like us talking about craft, so here you go! If

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1:04:59

Dear Rach & Soph season 2, episode 4 - Staying...

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2024/09/28

This week Rachael Johns and Sophie Green talk to author Christine Wells, and the theme is 'staying published' - that is, what it has taken for Christine to stay published over the course of her career. She's published 16 books with four different publishers in the United States and Australia, so she has quite a lot of experience to draw on!There's more about Christine and her latest novel, THE PARIS GOWN, below.***Christine Wells writes historical fiction featuring strong, fascinating women.After

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54:30

Season 2, episode 3 - Writing spicy scenes

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2024/09/21

Even if you don’t read spicy books, as they’ve come to be known, you’ve no doubt read spicy scenes in other books (and we're using the term ‘spicy’ instead of the other because we’d have to use an asterisk in that to avoid internet-consequences, plus we're sure you understand what we mean when we say ‘spicy’). If you are a writer of spicy books, you’ve definitely written them, and even if you don’t write spicy books you may have written spicy scenes anyway.Soph reads spicy books. Both Rach and Soph

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1:01:10

Season 2, episode 2 - with guest Lainie Anderson

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/09/14

In this episode we talk to Lainie Anderson, author of the new novel The Death of Dora Black: A Petticoat Police Mystery. We had a lovely time, as Lainie was warm and engaging and very, very interesting. If you'd like to see Sophie's review of the book, it's here.If you'd like to read more about the book and Lainie, you're in luck! That information appears below.ABOUT THE DEATH OF DORA BLACKA charming, uplifting cosy murder mystery inspired by the true story of Australia's pioneering policewoman Kate

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46:17

Season 2, episode 1 - Grand ambition

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/09/07

Ambition is a tricky subject for Australians - our Tall Poppy Syndrome is alive and well, and when you combine that with lingering Cultural Cringe, for an Australian writer to say they have ambitions/that they are ambitious can be seen as cringey in and of itself.Well, we decided that it’s too bad if anyone sees us as cringey - or, rather, we don’t care, because we do have ambition and we wanted to talk about it. Partly because we hope that by naming it, by talking about it, other writers

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52:00

Bonus episode: Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel

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2024/08/17

When we recorded our first episode of our podcast, Dear Rach & Soph, earlier this year, we talked about her then-new novel The Other Bridget. So even though we've wrapped the first season, Rachael suggested we do an episode devoted to Sophie's new novel, Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel. So this is a bonus episode of the podcast - or a bridging episode, if you will, since we have already started recording season two!We have so appreciated the feedback from listeners, including telling us that you

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1:03:08

Episode 17 - Trusting the magic

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2024/06/15

When we started this podcast we don’t think either of us had a single thought about how long it might go for - probably not this long! It's hard to believe we’ve released an episode a week for the past 17 Sundays, but we haven’t run out of things to talk about and we still have a long list of subjects we’d like to discuss. However, we’re going to take a little break as we both have books to write.In this, our final episode of season 1 (as we do plan to do a season 2), we discuss Big Magic by

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52:11

Episode 16 - Entering competitions and publishing...

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2024/06/09

This is the penultimate episode of the first season of Dear Rach & Soph - Rachael and Sophie both have books to write, so we need to focus on those - but we have a long list of subjects we’d like to cover in future episodes so we will be back!In this episode we were very happy to chat to Susannah Begbie, author of The Deed, which won the Richell Prize in 2022. The Richell is a joint project of @hachetteaus and @emergingwriters; entries for the 2024 prize are open now and closing on 7 July

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1:02:45

Episode 15 - Fitting it all in (with special guest...

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2024/06/01

**NB This episode was recorded in April so our intro chat will be out of sync with recent episodes.**This week we have a wonderful guest: children’s author Ashleigh Barton, who has written several CBCA Notable and Shortlist titles including What Do You Call Your Grandpa? and What Do You Call Your Grandma? (more information below).Ashleigh’s latest book is the picture book Dinosaur in My Pocket and on 26 June she’ll release two Freddie Spector, Fact Collector titles: Go for Gold and Space

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1:02:48

Episode 14 - Good rejections, bad rejections, and...

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/05/25

Rejections are par for the course for all writers, whether they’ve been published or not. Even once you have a publisher they may reject your next idea - or readers may reject your book by not reading it! Both Rachael Johns and Sophie Green have been rejected - multiple times (and both of us by Mills & Boon, which we talk about in this episode).As a publisher, and when she was an agent, Sophie does some rejecting, and she also sees a lot of submissions, so she has some things to say about where

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1:12:25

Episode 13 - Retirement energy (with special guest...

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2024/05/18

A little while ago Rachael Johns suggested we do an episode on ‘retirement energy’ after one of her favourites, Elin Hildebrand, announced she was stepping back from her regular writing pace. Writers obviously don’t have the same working structures as those in other careers and the decision to step back or retire can happen for a variety of reasons. Rach also suggested that we chat to fellow Western Australian author Fiona Palmer about her decision not to write novels for the foreseeable future (her

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53:59

Episode 12 - The tricky writing bits

Dear Rach & Soph ·

2024/05/12

In this episode Rachael Johns and Sophie Green talk about the parts of writing that we may or may not find tricky: no, not the existential stuff like 'I feel like I'm ripping my soul out of my body' (NB: we don't) but the technical stuff ... showing vs telling, action tags and dialogue tags, keeping track of timelines, whether or not we describe our characters' appearances, and other subjects of that ilk.We also catch up on our news, which includes Soph writing a Farmer Wants a Wife recap for Rach,

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