Writing Podcast Episode 732: Leearna Shaw takes us to 'A Farm in Golden Clouds'

So you want to be a writer by Australian Writers' Centre

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With a mountain of rejections, AWC grad Leearna Shaw was ready to throw in the proverbial towel with her dream of novel writing. But just a few years later, her rural romance A Farm in Golden Clouds wins the Romance Writ...

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