DG Rampton is a bestselling author who loves to create feelgood romantic comedy, featuring intelligent heroines, dashing men and sparkling banter.

An engineer by training but a romantic by nature, she left her corporate career to follow the call of her artistic inclinations and write stories that bring joy and laughter into people's lives.

She has a penchant for gastro-dining, French comedy and theoretical physics. When not immersed in the fictional worlds she creates, she has been known to dabble in extreme property makeovers that send her family batty.

For more information, visit: https://dgrampton.com/

Meg Keneally is a bestselling novelist, editor, journalist, writing teacher and book coach.

She is the author of three solo novels - Free, The Wreck and Fled (optioned for film and currently in pre-production). Her screenplay adaptation of Fled has won numerous awards for unproduced screenplays.

With her father Tom Keneally, she’s the author of four books in the Monsarrat series - The Soldier's Curse, The Unmourned, The Power Game and The Ink Stain. The fifth, The Valley of the Swells, is on the way.

She has taught writing masterclasses around Australia, and has worked with fiction and non-fiction authors.

For more information, visit: https://www.megkeneallybooks.com/

Bernadette Eden is the author of Women’s Fiction with heart and humour. Her novel Awaiting Annie Jones won the 2024 Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Ruby award and had previously been longlisted for the Richell Prize and the (RWA) Emerald Award as well as being shortlisted for the QWC Publishable Program.

Having grown up in rural South Australia, Bernadette’s books are often set in small towns and feature strong communities and the cast of characters within them.

A passionate indie author she has also published a romantic comedy series titled The Molly Gardner Series.

When not writing, Bernadette can be found feeding hungry teenagers at a local high school and working as an Assessment Co-ordinator for Writers SA. She is also a proud member of the Romance Writers of Australia and holds the position of Events Co-ordinator.

For more information, visit: https://bernadetteeden.com.au/

Linda Johannesson is a marketing expert whose superpowers are asking powerful questions, having creative vision, and efficiently connecting the strategic dots. With a ‘get sh*t done’ approach, Linda helps service businesses and their founders to see and grow into their potential and possibility.

She’s a Marketing and Growth Consultant, Author, Blogger, Book Marketing Strategist, Mentor, and Founder of The Growth Garden, a strategic branding, marketing, and growth agency that helps both businesses and bestsellers bloom!

For more information, visit: https://www.growthgarden.au/

Based in Brisbane, Australia, Bev works with non-fiction authors as a Certified Non-Fiction Book Coach, helping them to plan a book well before diving into the writing process.

She also works as a book production manager with independent authors – usually women in business – bringing their books to print after they have completed their manuscripts.

Bev’s happy place definitely sits at the intersection of the power of publishing to grow a business, and the author’s personal growth in the process.

For more information, visit: https://www.smartwomenpublish.com/

Jack Roney is a retired police officer and now crime fiction writer and podcaster. His four novels are published by Hawkeye Publishing. The Angels Wept was shortlisted in the Wattpad Awards while The Ghost Train & The Scarlet Moon was runner-up in Hawkeye’s Manuscript Development Prize. As co-host of the Genre Fiction Podcast, Jack interviews fellow authors and industry experts.

Harry Colfer is the pseudonym of a critical care paramedic who lives and works in Brisbane. He uses his wealth of experience to write fictional but realistic medical stories that are always served up with a healthy dose of dark ambo humour. To date, he has published four novels in his ‘Tetralogy of Jono’ series, along with winning several short-story awards for his prequel Ambo Tales from the Frontline collection. He’s now taking a sabbatical from his day job and, like Jono, he’s decided to live on a yacht for a while…

For more information, visit:

https://www.jackroney.com.au/#/

https://harrycolfer.com/

Liz H. Kelly is the Founder and CEO of Goody PR and Goody Business Book Awards, Award-Winning Author of “8-Second PR: New Public Relations Crash Course”, and Podcast Host, whose mission is to “Magnify Good.”

As the author of three books, Kelly knows how hard it is to promote them. After submitting many Goody PR clients for book awards, Kelly noticed few programs recognize 100% social impact book authors. As a result, Kelly started the Goody Business Book Awards in 2022.

Kelly’s Goody PR team has booked thousands of earned media interviews for clients, including the TODAY Show, CNN, BBC World News, PBS, NPR, and TIME.

Kelly is a Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business alumni from the Baltimore - Washington D.C. area, now lives in Los Angeles near the ocean and mountains, loves photography, and is an autism advocate.

For more information, visit: https://goodypr.com/

Cyble Rizwan is a typesetter at Hembury Books.
In this episode, she breaks down the processes behind book formatting, defines terminology like 'bleed', 'gutters' and 'margins', and shares her typesetting tips for indie designers.