Thursday, August 24, 2023

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Mackay and Whitsunday Life

Author Visits Whitsundays

Annie Seaton has penned almost 65 novels in her chosen genre, with four taking place in the pristine beauty of the Whitsundays, and the author made a return visit to one of her favourite settings last week.

Stopping by at Whitsunday libraries across the region, Ms Seaton spoke to locals about her newest novels: Outback Roads – The Nanny, Outback Sky – The Pilot, Larapinta, and Osprey Reef – a novel set here in the Whitsundays.

She spent seven weeks in the Whitsundays – a place she’s visited for the past 11 years - travelling from their New South Wales home up the coast in a camper with her husband, which the pair have made a habit of in their retirement.

Annie writes on the road – another habit – and said she’s always had a dream of writing “ever since I was four years old.”

Annie writes romantic-suspense novels and took the opportunity to speak at Cannonvale, Proserpine, Collinsville, and Bowen libraries to fans and aspiring writers of the region.

“I talked about the research and how I did that locally, especially for Whitsunday Dawn, which focuses on Airlie Beach and the Cannonvalley in the 1940s,” she said.

“I also want to write another big one set at Bowen called Bowen River, which will be a murder-mystery. So, that will be my big focus next year.”

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