Writing Podcast Episode 563: Bestselling author Sophie Green on Weekends With The Sunshine Gardening Society

Bestselling author Sophie Green on Weekends With The Sunshine Gardening Society. Should you read other books while you're writing your own? And win Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales.

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Writer in residence: Sophie Green

Sophie Green is an author and publisher who lives in Sydney. She has written several fiction and non-fiction books, some under other names. In her spare time she writes about country music on her website, Sunburnt Country Music. She has been practising yoga since 1993 and teaching since 2002. Sophie's debut novel,  The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club, was a Top Ten bestseller and was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards for General Fiction Book of the Year 2018, and longlisted for both the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year 2018 and the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction 2018. Sophie Green is internationally published and The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle, Thursdays at Orange Blossom House and The Bellbird River Country Choir were also Top Ten bestsellers.

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