When it comes to her art, author Fiona Lowe has a simple formula – write every day.
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“What I have learnt is you need to turn up every day. Some days you write absolute nonsense, but the next day you can go back and you’ve got a framework there,” she said.
Lowe should know, she’s the author of almost 30 novels since breaking into the romance market.
The Geelong-based author was in Warrnambool on Thursday spreading the word about her latest work –Daughter of Mine.
In writing the novel, set in a fictional town of the Western District, Lowe said she wanted to tackle “something bigger” than the medical romance books that had been her forte for more than a decade.
The book tells the story of the Chirnwell daughters, descendants of western Victoria’s squattocracy. The sisters face family scandal and criminal accusations, learning along the way that they must pull together.
Lowe said she researched well-known pastoral families of the Western District for the work and based the fictional town of Billawarre on elements of south-west towns such as Camperdown and Colac.
With a background in nursing, Lowe said she “knew absolutely nothing” about writing novels when she decided to get started.
A prolific letter and journal writer, Lowe made the step into books after hearing a call-out for romance writers on radio.
She saw it has the “perfect job” to juggle with motherhood, but it took four manuscripts over 10 years before she became published.
Lowe’s appearance at Brightbird Espresso is part of a collaboration between Liebig Street traders and the Warrnambool Library to keep business flowing in the urban strip during the revitalisation process.
It was the second of a number of author visits planned for the city between March and July.