Due to the Covid 19 pandamic, the Romantic Novelists' Association - the United Kingdom's romance writers organisation - hosted a mini virtual conference online. Rachel was thrilled to take part in this opportunity from the other side of the world and was especially excited to attend a 'Creating Conflict' workshop presented by the editorial team at Mills and Boon. It was a long night, but well worth it.

Rachel is pleased to announce her short story Father of the Bride has been shortlisted for the Outback Writers Festival's Short Story Competition and will be featured in The Outback: An Anthology of Short Stories Volume 5.

This book is a collection of short stories that celebrate the vast Australian Outback. All proceeds go towards the Outback Writers Festival.

Rachel is pleased to announce that she has been named a finalist in the 2020 Valerie Parv Award with Romance Writers of Australia.

Rachel thanks the dedicated judges for their consideration and feedback.

​Best of luck to all the finalists!

Rachel is pleased to announce that Reunited with the Millionaire is a finalist in the Pacific Hearts Award with Romance Writers of New Zealand.

Rachel thanks the dedicated readers who have taken the time to read these full manuscripts and provide feedback. 

Best of luck to all the finalists.

Rachel is very happy to announce that Reunited with the Millionaire is a finalist in the 2020 Emerald Award with Romance Writers of Australia.

Rachel thanks the dedicated readers for their feedback.

​Best of luck to all the finalists!

After submitting the first 10,000 words of her latest manuscript, Rachel has reached the second round of Romance Writers of Australia's Emerald Contest!

Rachel thanks the judges for their first round feedback and looks forward to receiving feedback on the full manuscript.

​Congratulations to all the second round winners!

Rachel is proud to announce that Reunited with the Millionaire has placed second in the Pages From the Heart Contest with From the Heart Romance Writers.

Congratulations to all the winners, the full list of which can be found below.

This weekend, Rachel attended GenreCon 2019 hosted by the Queensland Writers Centre with writing buddy Deeanna West. She attended workshops, networked, and presented on a panel Write to Win.

Rachel is excited to announce that her manuscript Reunited with the Millionaire is among the top three finalists in the Pages From The Heart contest in the Short Contemporary Novel category. This contest is run by From the Heart Romance Writers, a chapter of Romance Writers of America. Entries consisted of the first 6,000 words.

Congratulations to all the finalists!

Rachel is proud to announce that her short story Loving Nalini is to be published in Hawkeye Books' new anthology Allsorts, a collection of jolly good tales that celebrates diversity in Australia. Allsorts features 43 short stories that were submitted to the inaugural Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition. The guidelines for this competition needed to fit the theme 'Together in Diversity' where the main character needed to cross paths with somebody who was different to them.

Loving Nalini is a romantic short story about Brad, a white Australian medical student who is struggling with his feelings for his Indian best friend Nalini, whose father expects her to return to India with her medical degree and enter an arranged marriage. Rachel is proud to be part of this socially important anthology along with many talented writers.