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Romantic Book Of The Year FINALIST 2009

Monday, June 15th, 2009

I’m absolutely thrilled! THE MIDWIFE’S BABY has finalled in the Short Sweet category of the prestigious Romantic Book Of The Year, R*BY, awards held at the Romance Writers of Australia Conference in Brisbane in August. This book came out last year in Australia and was a lot of fun to write. I’ve been attending RWAustralia conferences since they were first held eighteen years ago (that would be why a big birthday is coming up for me) and have watched with awe as finalists each year have produced such wonderful books.

To think that the reader judges have included me in this elite makes me very grateful for all the help and support I’ve received from Romance Writers of Australia over the years.

I can’t recommend joining the organisation more highly if you are an aspiring or published author.

Congratulations to the other finalists and I look forward to a fabulous night with my writer friends and my family around me.

As promised, I’ve included an extra Kimberley photo and the first of my two Kimberley books now has a title, MIDWIFE IN A MILLION and is due for release early 2010.

I’m deep into the next book set in the Kimberley region, and I’m loving this book. In the north of Western Australia, helicopter crashed, a midwife walking away from a pregnant woman, hoping she doesn’t birth before she can get to help… and the hero to die for

sigh

its a hard life living these dreams. I don’t think so.

xx Fi

PS I’m off to see Simon and Garfunkle in Brisbane with a dear friend on Thursday. More on that later

keep well and happy

warmest regards

xx Fiona

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The Last Minute Guide To Birth
Coming out in September 2010 from Penguin Australia, to help those last minute nerves and questions. New cover coming soon.

I’m very excited about my first Non-Fiction book, THE LAST MINUTE GUIDE TO BIRTH.

A midwife for twenty five years, I’ve always been passionate about sharing the insights I’ve gained about birth with women and their families.

When a mother-to-be walks into an antenatal class she has some questions she wants to ask first. One of them is “How will I know if I’m in labour?”and there’s heaps of answers after that. This book starts there. If you want an easy to read, last minute guide to those burning questions, I can’t wait to share.

wishing you a wonderful birth

Fiona
Midwife in a Million
To save a baby -Their gruelling race against time across the rugged Outback to save a patient’s unborn child challenges Kate and Rory physically and emotionally –

Available Feb – UK and NA, March, Australia

Why I wrote the book,

I loved the scenery in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’. I watched the movie and wondered why I’d never made it to the Kimberleys of Western Australia—apart from the fact it’s nearly two and a half thousand miles from my house. When the opportunity arose to attend a midwifery conference in Darwin that was enough serendipity for me to make the leap.

So followed a glorious week in the top end of Australia driving in an all-terrain vehicle across rock-strewn rivers, past magnificent escarpments and into the purple sunsets of the Kimberleys. Such fabulous land and fabulous people—that’s where Rory and Kate from ‘Midwife in a Million’ grew up.

Rory had always been Kate’s hero, the one who’d stood up for her in school, the only person who knew the real Kate—not the Outback royalty one. He was there for Kate at her most desperate times…except for the one time she didn’t tell him she needed him. And for the past ten years that secret was enough to destroy what they’d had.

In this book, Kate needs to transfer a young pregnant woman to Perth, through floods and storms and terrible roads, and it’s Rory who arrives to help. This is their journey. I hope you grow to love Kate and Rory as much as I did. They epitomize the strength, determination and humor of the people who live “top end.” I hope, too, that within the following pages you can glimpse the incredible beauty of the Kimberleys that thrilled me.

I wish you happy reading!

Fiona McArthur

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