Show Notes
Listeners-slash-viewers a.k.a. liewers, you’re going to have to watch or listen to find out why, quite early on in our latest episode, Rachael says, ‘This is not a poo podcast.’ We're not giving you any hints! What we will say is that we recorded this ahead of her going to the RWA conference in Darwin, at which she taught a day-long workshop, gave the opening keynote speech and was made a lifetime member of the RWA. In short, she was an RWA rock star!
Our main business in this episode is to answer questions that were submitted for the workshop Sophie taught at Rachael’s readers retreat in Geelong a few weeks ago. We decided to answer them on the pod as they are questions that we are asked from time to time anyway, so we thought the answers be useful to record. They are questions about writing and publishing, as you’d expect. What are they? Listen or watch to find out … For more information about Rachael Johns: https://www.rachaeljohns.com
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This episode of the podcast was recorded a few weeks before Sophie's latest novel, The Frock Shop, was published and Rachael asked her some questions about it, including how she manages writing multiple points of view (there are give in this novel). Sophie also mentions some events and how at the time we recorded there weren’t booking links for everything - but there are now!