Penelope Janu

Penelope Janu

August to December Upcoming New Releases

We’re already over half way through the year and the new releases keep on coming So far we’ve got 10 books releasing between August and December, every one of them available for pre-order right now so hold the takeaway flat whites and cappuccinos and start putting those freshly saved spare coins in a Book Jar! You know you’ll thank yourself by December… Upcoming new releases Central Highlands 1861. How do you tame a wild colonial boy? With an even wilder colonial girl. Read more…
How Many Books Have You Written? (1st round)

Following on from our post How Many Books Have You Read So Far This Year? we asked our Australian Fiction Authors how many books they’d written The answers are a wonderful insight into Australian authors and how they go about their business, some writing in many genres or heading for new genres, and always fulfilling their creative wells Lily Malone Australian Fiction Author Contemporary. Country. Australian. I’ve written 8 published stories across 3 genres: rural romance, contemporary romance, and romantic comedy/cozy mystery. Read more…
How Many Books Have You Read So Far This Year?

It’s a well-known fact among writers that reading books is a priority pastime. Read more…
Spilling the News on Writing Goals – 6 Authors, 6 Spills

Our third blog post where Australian Fiction Authors spill the news on their writing goals for 2019 Take it away, Meredith Appleyard, Pamela Cook, Tricia Stringer, Cheryl Adnams, Nicole Hurley-Moore and Penelope Janu What are your writing goals for 2019? Meredith Appleyard Bestselling Author of The Country Practice Using her experience and fascination of providing health care to rural communities in her stories Wow! Writing goals for 2019 … I really had to think about this. Formal goal-setting was something from my previous life. Read more…
On the Same Page – new release from Penelope Janu

A contemporary romantic comedy from prize winning author of In at the Deep End and On the Right Track Penelope Janu Read an excerpt from On the Same Page ‘Endearingly quirky and utterly charming. Funny and sweet and wonderful.’ —Amy Andrews, USA Today bestselling author Out in paperback and ebook today! Sometimes a girl just has to do what’s in her heart … By day Miles Franklin, named after the famous author, is a successful lawyer. Read more…
Q&A with Penelope Janu. Adventure and romance…fresh, fun, fiction

“Sometimes a girl just has to do what’s in her heart…” By day Miles Franklin, named after the famous author, is a successful lawyer. But by night she writes historical romance novels under the pen name Emma Browning. When Miles’s assistant covertly enters her boss’s novel in one of Australia’s biggest literary awards—and it wins—Miles’s perfectly ordered world is torn apart. Lars Kristensen smells a rat. As the CEO of Iconic International, the company publishing Miles’s prize-winning novel, he’s determined to meet the author and uncover her true identity. Read more…