Rachel Armstrong

13/7/2019

Festival of Stories - Attended Hooking the Reader with Mark Brandi

This July, Townsville's Festival of Stories is back and better than ever, keeping Rachel busy for four whole weeks. Today, Rachel attended a workshop 'Hooking the Reader' with crime writer Mark Brandi and discussed first chapters, one of Rachel's passions. After all, there is nothing more important than that vital first chapter and page.

15/6/2019

Attended QWC Workshop - The Writer's Plan with Lori-Jay Ellis

Today, Rachel attended The Writer's Plan, a workshop hosted by Queensland Writer's Centre's CEO and romance writer Lori-Jay Ellis. At this workshop, Lori-Jay took participants through principles of goal setting in order to effectively manage writing time and complete your novel. This professional development opportunity has helped Rachel realign her goals in order to complete her next novel by the end of the year.

View Rachel's writing plan here.

3/6/2019

Attended the Rainforest Writing Retreat

This weekend, Rachel attended the Rainforest Writing Retreat in the beautiful Gold Coast Hinterland at O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat. There, Rachel had the opportunity to participate in workshops about writing blurbs, ghost stories, and a writing masterclass with Anna Campbell.

You can read about Rachel's experience at the Rainforest Writing Retreat here.

15/5/2019

Interview with Huxley Press

Rachel participated in an interview about the Infection anthology with Townsville's arts magazine Huxley.

You can read the article here.

14/5/2019

Infection Anthology is Released

Rachel's short story Malady takes the Castle was released today in the Townsville Writers and Publishers Centre's anthology Infection.

Malady takes the Castle is a Zvurian historical short story. Visit the Infection page for purchase links.

27/4/2019

Scribblerz Anthology 2 Book Launch

As part of the facilitating team of the Scribblerz writers group for children with outback fiction author Jill Staunton, Rachel launched Scribblerz Anthology 2 today. In January, children attended a narrative writing workshop where they drafted, wrote, and edited a short story. Rachel formatted and printed the anthology. Today, very excited children received their published stories.

Scribblerz Anthology 2 is available for purchase on Amazon and Booktopia.

2/4/2019

Malady takes the Castle - Published in TWPC's Infection Anthology

Rachel's short story Malady takes the Castle is soon to be published in the Townsville Writers and Publishers Centre's anthology Infection. Malady takes the Castle is a historical piece set in her fictional country of Zvur, the home of her novel Almost a Princess.

Rachel is very proud to be part of this anthology with a group of nine other local authors. The anthology presents ten thrilling stories across a range of genres and captures many aspects of infection. As a TWPC team member, Rachel has been involved in many aspects of this anthology. In addition to writing a story, Rachel created the cover, formatted the paperback and ebooks, and is publishing the anthology.

1/3/2019

Second Round of RWA's Emerald Contest

After submitting the first 10,000 words of two manuscripts to Romance Writers of Australia's Emerald Contest, both of these works have advanced to round two!

Rachel is really looking forward to receiving feedback on these two books.

30/1/2019

Second Year in the RNA's New Writers Scheme

After receiving an encouraging report for her manuscript in 2018, Rachel has submitted another piece of work to the 2019 New Writer's Scheme with the Romantic Novelists' Association.

9/1/2019

Scribblerz Workshop - Narrative Fiction

The Townsville Writers and Publishers Centre hosted their school holiday writing workshop for children again this month. Rachel enjoyed assisting the 8-12 year old Scribblerz in their fiction writing workshop, helped them edit their 500 word short story, and is getting ready to produce Scribblerz Anthology 2, which will be released later this year.

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