Fiction Distilling<\/a>, and entertainment by opera singer Jamie Moffat.<\/p>\nPrevious versions of the event have included sessions with publishers and poetry workshops, but Portia says the writing and readership of South Australian independent writers has always been the event\u2019s promotional focus.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of times there aren\u2019t enough events for them [South Australians], and I\u2019m one of these people as well,\u201d Portia says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it\u2019s a forum for that, and for people to connect to authors that they don\u2019t normally have a chance to connect to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why I like the author community. We are very generous with our tips and ideas and we help each other out. It\u2019s just another opportunity for us to do that, and to help people that are thinking about writing a book.\u201d<\/p>\n
Author of 25 years and historical romance specialist, Elizabeth Rolls is one of the headlining authors who\u2019ll deliver a talk on the craft of building characters for the event.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth is a Mills and Boons author known for titles\u00a0His Lady Mistress, The Chivalrous Rake and the\u00a0Lords at the Altar\u00a0series.<\/p>\n
She tells CityMag the most important character is the one that gets in the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou haven\u2019t got any sort of plot unless you have an antagonist,\u201d Elizabeth says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to have something that is impeding their progress of their relationship or the safety of their relationship or their safety period, which is why crime and romance, and the romantic suspense genre work so well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elizabeth says inspiring more South Australian readers to pick up local works after the event is, of course, another goal of the event that spotlights stories created at home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s an important thing, we ought to be supporting our own writers and encouraging readers from our communities,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the event hopes to nurture a love of writing and reading within regional communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they\u2019ll come away with the perspective that writing is hard work but it\u2019s also fun,\u201d Elizabeth says.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not all love and war. Beyond the Mills and Boon, the event is family friendly with plenty of children\u2019s authors on the lineup, including Cristy Fopp, Lee Speed, Rosanna Hawke and Jordan Hawkey.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something for the adults, but we need to have children\u2019s books as well,\u201d Portia says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s important for kids to be reading from an early age and enjoying books and learning from them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2025 Saddleworth Book Event Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang<\/a> will be held August 2 from 10am \u2019til 3pm at the Saddleworth Institute on Burra Road. Tickets are $5 and free for children under 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australian writers are celebrating their romantic and criminal craft in the Mid North town of Saddleworth this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-17932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}