Showing posts with label Amy T Matthews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amy T Matthews. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

SARA News ~ late, late for a very important date...

Okay so my plans to get the post up and going on Monday, didn't pan out - public holiday threw me. 

But low and behold, here we are with another installment.


What do I say?

Okay first up, Amy T Matthews will be at the SA Writer's Centre for a workshop.


The Interview
25 October, 2pm - 5pm

with Amy T Matthews and Gillian Dooley


This workshop will explore the art of interviewing and being interviewed – a crucial component of a writer’s career.

Discover the secrets of conducting a successful public conversation and encouraging celebrated writers to open up about their life and work and the process of transferring it to paper and making it readable and ready for publication. Amy T. Matthews and Gillian Dooley will share their experiences as interviewees, interviewers, writers and editors. 

Book now to avoid disappointment.



Amy is now also on Facebook as Amy T Matthews and Tess LeSue

Go and LIKE her pages!



Zoom, zoom, zoom!

Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights has been featured again in the Mount Barker Courier.







A most amazing fantabulous couple of weeks with book releases, book launches and book signings!
(for blurbs of books go to our post of 24th September). SARA is sure on a roll. And I'm sure this will continue on and on...



Kyoko Church with The Diary of a Libary Nerd


Kyoko's book launched to the big old world at Dymocks Adelaide and MC'd by the wonderful (SARA) Victoria Purman
Kyoko Church
photo by Victoria Purman

SARAs supporting Kyoko 


Fans were in need after Kyoko read excerpts from her books - she is one talented author!


Buy your copy from:


in US - Walmart (go Kyoko!)





A silent achiever in the SARA ranks is Beck Nicholas, whose debut YA novel, Fake, was released by Harlequin Teen on the 1st October! 

Collins Booksellers Edwardstown hosted the event. 

Beck Nicholas ready to do her thing at the booksigning.
This blurry image by Eleni Konstantine.

Getting into the spirit - Beck's duo coloured nails match the cover.
SARAs celebrating with Beck.
L-R: Virginia Taylor, Claire Baxter, Trish Morey


 Buy your copy of Fake from all good local bookstores 
and online at Harlequin Books.



Maggie Mundy held an online bash and hosted authors at her Unknown Protector Release Party on Facebook. 



Buy your copy from Amazon




Carla Caruso's series Astonvale starting with A Pretty Mess has hit the newspaper as well as the e-shelves.




Buy your copy from HarperCollins



While I'm here, let me tell you that Carla has another book coming in November called Unlucky For Some.

Raffy Fortuna knows all about luck, and she's not interested in pushing it. But sometimes luck pushes you to the places you least expect. Sassy Italian-Australian newspaper reporter Raffy has been ultra-superstitious ever since her ex-fiance saw her in her bridal gown before they got hitched - and left her at the altar. But as luck would have it, one of her new assignments at Press Publishing is a feature series challenging some of the most common superstitions in the lead-up to Friday the thirteenth. It's her worst nightmare - not helped by the grumpy, yet annoyingly handsome cameraman accompanying her to film the daily online videos for the newspaper's site.


Pre order your copy from HarperCollins




Khloe Wren's last book in the Dragon Warriors series, Believing Binda series is now released! 



Buy now from: 




My TBR pile has grown so much in just the last few weeks! How about yours?

Remember if you are interested in attending SARA meetings, please go to our website for details.

Until next time...happy reading!




Monday, May 12, 2014

SARA News ~ spicy illustrations, Weekend to Remember Plus a worthy cause!

Sassy news coming your way...


Spicy explicit illustrations!

Kyoko Church has a cover for her upcoming June release by Sweetmeats Press. This publisher illustrates the erotic stories. Explicitly. So rated Rauchy!

Except the cover is meek and mild...






Coming next month...


SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WEEKEND FAIR:
A FAIR TO REMEMBER 

a weekend for writers and lovers of romantic fiction!!!

Brought to you by RWA and SAWC


Stop penning those love letters, put down the Mills & Boon, and forget those roses – it’s time for our inaugural genre fair – and it’s romance! RWA and SAWC have come together to bring you two days of whirling workshops, panel sessions, masterclasses, industry advice, meet the authors sessions, book signings and more. And on the Saturday night it’s the fundraising event of the year: our romance-themed lit quiz night. Full program and speakers announced in April.

COST: 1 day = $130 SAWC and RWA members, $170 non members
2 days = $240 SAWC and RWA members, $340 non members
QUIZ NIGHT: $20 per head

BOOKINGS: Please book by phoning 08 8223 7662 or by emailing admin@sawriters.org.au



Featuring SARA members Trish Morey, Victoria Purman, Amy T. Mattews, Bronwyn Stuart, Carla Caruso, Eleni Konstantine, Elizabeth Rolls, Kyoko Church and Tamara Gill!!










Come along to an exciting weekend!!



A Worthy Cause...

Every year, author Brenda Novack holds a huge auction to raise money for Juvenile Diabetes. This year, Maggie Mundy and her Soul Mate Publishing brethren are helping out with the auction.

Check it out!




~ Until next time....


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

SARA News ~ A little bit of this, and a little bit of that...


Welcome to another week of fantastically SASSY news. 




Behind the book...

Amy T Matthews's non-fiction book which looks at writing End of the Night Girl, has been released by University of Adelaide Press.  It's called Navigating the Kingdom of the Night.

You can get the PDF for FREE but there is also a print version (Eleni: looks like the Order Online isn't working so best to call them for your copy).














Eleni Konstantine is doing a tired dance this week as she has two releases.

A world with magic?...

Enchanted, a short story from Alfie Dog Fiction.

Katharine’s life has become static. She has no friends and her workaholic husband hardly notices her. Enchantment and fascination comes in the form of a mysterious painting.




If you like noir, you'll like...

SNOOP: Snoop Cases #1, a paranormal noir novelette, from Musa Publishing.

Bob's rule of investigating: Never take the paranormal at face value.

Daisy Luck is a SNOOP - Sanctioned Nationalized Officer Of the Paranormal. Her latest case involving a vampire and a gremlin has her private eye senses in a spin. Throw in yummy Detective Maroney and her life couldn't get more complicated - or could it?







Translation anyone?

Trish Moreyova rides again with the Czech translation of Fiancee For One Night.







A poet at heart? 

Join Lilliana Rose with her latest piece, No Friends, on Every Day Poets.





Nothing like a good cover. Here is some cover love.

Random Romance is releasing a print anthology next year called All My Love. Included are stories from our own Virginia Taylor (Dr No Commitment) and Claire Baxter (Anybody But Him). What a simply gorgeous cover. 







Anne Oliver's UK cover for Mistletoe Not Required.






In other news....


Lilliana Rose tweeted the following...

@LillianaRose2: 50,024 words for the month of Nov :) I now have a novel. Just another 30k I reckon and it will be finished! #NaNoWriMo2013

Well done, Lilliana on finishing your goal. 

Did anyone else try it this year?



That's it from me, your roving SARA reporter. Until next time.

~Eleni