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Hello and welcome to the Australian Rural Fiction December newsletter....a bumper issue filled with links to lots of lovely summer reading, news, contests and giveaways. We've given readers one place to find out the news every day. Join our Facebook group here:
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New Releases
Some of our well known authors have new releases just in time for Christmas. Click on the images below for more details.
News Snippets

Have you read the fabulous Bindarra Creek series that has been out for a couple of years? You can see all of the books in the first series here: A Bindarra Creek Romance
The good news... The authors have got together again, and Annie Seaton has joined them to produce a boxed set of short and sweet stories all set in Bindarra Creek.
Help us support the ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE and pre-order this fabulous set. ALL proceeds are going to the charity.
Click on the cover... help us get it to #1 before release and raise money for a worthy cause!
The good news... The authors have got together again, and Annie Seaton has joined them to produce a boxed set of short and sweet stories all set in Bindarra Creek.
Help us support the ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE and pre-order this fabulous set. ALL proceeds are going to the charity.
Click on the cover... help us get it to #1 before release and raise money for a worthy cause!
- Juanita Kees Whispers at Wongan Creek is a 99c special for all of December. Whispers at Wongan Creek in as a special for 99c on Amazon ... click here
- Annie Seaton's Beach Walk is an Amazon special for all of December... click here
- From Noelene Jenkinson...The large print edition of OUTBACK TREASURE will be released in January 2019. It will be one of the titles in the new Aurora imprint for Australasian fiction by Ulverscroft UK along with lots of other Aussie writing talent. Watch out for it in your local library
- Good news from Sandie Docker: - the German Rights to The Kookaburra Creek Café have been sold!!!!!
New release - The Cottage At Rosella Cove will be released Jan 8th - Competition details for Lily Malone's new release on herFACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/lily.lilymalone/
- Leisl Leighton has just signed a two book deal with Harlequin Escape...romantic suspense books set on a horse stud in the Victorian Alpine region. The first will be out mid next year, the 2nd about 6 months after that - working titles are Climbing Fear and Blazing Fear
- From Marilyn Forsyth...The Farmer’s Perfect Match (Outback Gems Book 1) is on special for $4.99
- Tea Coopers' new release is out on the 17th! All buy links are here
- Outback Hearts... seven fabulous rural stories is on special for 99c only. Available only until the end of January... click here
- Annie Seaton's two Second Chance Bay books are available in print... click here for details
- Annie has also started a reader's group. All welcome. You can join up here
- Alissa Callen's news! The Purple Hills is FREE... click here
And hot off the press news Alissa has sold the German rights to The Red Dirt Road to German publisher Bastei Lubbe.
Our contests and giveaways...
![]() Are you a rural romance reader? Here's a neat competition for you. A signed print copy of Susanne Bellamy's 'Hard Road Home' plus a craft pendant of grapes on the vine. Keep it or give it as a gift. To enter:
1. Click here to follow Susanne on Bookbub 2. Leave a review of Hard Road Home on Amazon or Goodreads Winner chosen by random draw on Friday 21st December at 8pm (Qld time). Geilis Romney is determined to expand her family’s business into a top boutique winery, but her father insists she employs Rick Peyton, the one man she cannot trust. Against her wishes, Rick moves onto the property to keep a closer eye on the vineyard. Sparks fly, but he resists the attraction of the woman who thinks the worst of him. |

Click here for a FREE book from S.M Spencer
A Chance for Snow is free on Amazon from 15th -17th December. Be quick!
With a double wedding and Christmas fast approaching, love is in the air—or is it?
Of course Debra Franklin is looking forward to her best friend’s wedding; she just wishes she wasn’t dateless again, because even though she’s made plans to leave the small-town gossips behind, she knows the wedding photos with her looking like a spinster will last forever. But when the tall-dark-and-handsome Jim Mitchell, with his cobalt blue eyes shadowed by an American cowboy hat, appears on the scene just a week before the wedding she reckons her problem of being dateless might just be solved.
A Chance for Snow is free on Amazon from 15th -17th December. Be quick!
With a double wedding and Christmas fast approaching, love is in the air—or is it?
Of course Debra Franklin is looking forward to her best friend’s wedding; she just wishes she wasn’t dateless again, because even though she’s made plans to leave the small-town gossips behind, she knows the wedding photos with her looking like a spinster will last forever. But when the tall-dark-and-handsome Jim Mitchell, with his cobalt blue eyes shadowed by an American cowboy hat, appears on the scene just a week before the wedding she reckons her problem of being dateless might just be solved.

Click on the e-tailers below for a FREE book from Christine Gardner
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All other e-tailers (Apple, Kobo, Nook etc)
Laura Prescott is a city girl. She lives in Melbourne and enjoys the life of a single girl in 1970, with no intention of marrying any time soon, if at all. She has no desire to live the life she sees her mother has, with a house full of children. Things change suddenly after she loses her job and she finds herself faced with very different choices. She finds a new life in the outback, with a new kind of love and a new kind of pain.
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All other e-tailers (Apple, Kobo, Nook etc)
Laura Prescott is a city girl. She lives in Melbourne and enjoys the life of a single girl in 1970, with no intention of marrying any time soon, if at all. She has no desire to live the life she sees her mother has, with a house full of children. Things change suddenly after she loses her job and she finds herself faced with very different choices. She finds a new life in the outback, with a new kind of love and a new kind of pain.
Darry has just come back from her fabulous book tour for the release of The Widow of Ballarat
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Passion, adventure and a woman’s quest for independence
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Now for our Christmas giveaway...be in it to win it!

DRAWN 20th December
And the best part... invite a new friend to the Facebook group every day for an additional FIVE entries per day!
We have the most fantabulous, awesome and generous Christmas contest that will sort out the summer...and probably winter...reading for six lucky winners.
Four Australian winners and two international winners.
There are FOUR prizes of fourteen signed print books for the Australian readers, and TWO prizes of eight e-books each to two international readers.
The giveaway books are listed below and the Rafflecopter entry form is at the bottom of the page.
Enter by logging into the Rafflecopter.
There are nineteen ways to build your entries and your chance to win!
Complete the first entry options and the others will magically appear! The more options you take up, the more entries you get!
And the best part... invite a new friend to the Facebook group every day for an additional FIVE entries per day!
We have the most fantabulous, awesome and generous Christmas contest that will sort out the summer...and probably winter...reading for six lucky winners.
Four Australian winners and two international winners.
There are FOUR prizes of fourteen signed print books for the Australian readers, and TWO prizes of eight e-books each to two international readers.
The giveaway books are listed below and the Rafflecopter entry form is at the bottom of the page.
Enter by logging into the Rafflecopter.
There are nineteen ways to build your entries and your chance to win!
Complete the first entry options and the others will magically appear! The more options you take up, the more entries you get!
THE FABULOUS GIVEAWAYS
Signed Print Books: Pack One
Amy Andrews Swept Away by the Seductive Stranger |
Susanne Bellamy Just One Kiss |
Noelle Clark Buckley's Chance |
Tea Cooper The Naturalist's Daughter |
Meredith Appleyard No Job for a Girl |
Alissa Callen Outback Roads |
Renee Conoulty Don't Mean a Thing |
Wendy Davies Good Enough to Love |
Sarah Barrie Bloodtree River |
Lee Christine Shadows of the Heart |
Pamela Cook The Crossroads |
Kaye Dobbie The Dark Dream |
Greg Barron Whistler's Bones |
Phillipa Nefri Clark The Stationmaster's Cottage |
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Signed Print Books: Pack Two
Sandie Docker Kookaburra Creek Café |
Heather Garside Breakaway Creek |
Barbara Hannay Summer of Secrets |
Cathryn Hein Santa and the Saddler |
Marilyn Forsyth The Farmer's Perfect Match |
S.E. Gilchrist Bindarra Creek Makeover |
Ann B. Harrison Mistress for Magnus |
Kelly Hunter Maggie's Run |
Leanne Lovegrove Unexpected Delivery |
Annie Seaton Whitsunday Dawn |
Penelope Janu On the Right Track |
Noelene Jenkinson Outback Treasure |
Nicole Hurley-Moore White Gum Creek |
Emily Hussey The Red Heart |
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Signed Print Books: Pack Three
Rachael Johns Talk of the Town |
Marion Lennox Home to Turtle Bay |
Megan Mayfair The Things We Leave Unsaid |
Fiona McArthur Mother's Day |
Juanita Kees Home to Bindarra Creek |
Fiona Lowe Birthright |
Jenn J. McLeod A Place to Remember |
MoniqueMulligan Fortunate Accident |
Kim Kelly Lady Bird and the Fox |
Callen/Greene/Madison Johns/Purman A Very Country Christmas |
Trish Morey Cherry Season |
Kelsey Neilson Charlotte |
Leisl Leighton Echo Springs |
Mandy Magro Flame Tree Hill |
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Signed Print Books: Pack Four
Kelsey Neilson Coolibah Creek |
Bronwyn Parry The North Wind |
Darry Fraser Widow of Ballarat |
Sarah Williams The Outback Governess |
Mary-Anne O'Connor War Flower |
Shirley Patton The Secrets We Keep |
Alison Stuart Gather the Bones |
Helene Young Return to Roseglen |
Erin Moira O'Hara Beat of the Jungle |
Jennifer Scoullar Fortune's Son |
Virginia Taylor Ella |
Lowe/Fraser/Janu Scott/Underdown Our Country Christmas |
Fiona Palmer The Sunnyvale Girls |
Annie Seaton Diamond Sky |
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E books Prize One
Phillipa Nefri Clark Christie Ryan 4 book series |
Kaye Dobbie The Dark Dream |
Marilyn Forsyth Falling in Love Again |
Annie Seaton Beach House |
Renee Conoulty Don't Mean a Thing |
Wendy Davies Good Enough to Love |
Louise Foster Home Truths |
Christine Gardner The Letter |
E Books Prize Two
Heather Garside Colonial Daughter |
Kim Kelly This Red Earth |
Leanne Lovegrove Unexpected Delivery |
Megan Mayfair The Things We Leave Unsaid |
Monique Mulligan The Point of Love |
Jennifer Scoullar Brumby's RunValue |
Annie Seaton Her Outback Playboy |
Sarah Williams The Outback Governess |
We thank everyone who has been a part of this to date. In particular we thank all our bighearted authors, all our very busy authors, all our very well-known authors for having their work available to showcase on our website, and to give you the reader, one place to call in, and see the news, what's being published and giveaways and contests
Happy reading and good luck!
Annie and Darry.