CREATIVE CUTS - The Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival is coming!

From November 7-9 at Venue 114 in Bokarina, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a festival dedicated to celebrating authors and readers!

The Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival will include writing workshops, author panels, special guests and entertainment, plus a two-day event book signing where readers of all fiction genres are invited to meet and chat with authors.

This event is being organised by Maleny local, Sarah Williams who is a bestselling romance author, editor, book coach, CEO of Serenade Publishing. 

"The Sunshine Coast has never had an event on this scale that will bring authors and book lovers together to meet and connect. 

"Events like this happen in Melbourne and Sydney but I wanted to make this a destination book signing, where people can come for a holiday and enjoy all the Sunshine Coast has to offer.

“This will be a huge weekend celebrating fiction and writing and bringing together the community of book lovers,” Sarah shared. 

 While many of the authors write romance, crime and fantasy, it is an all ages event. "We even have an 11-year-old writer, Lincoln Rowlins, attending with his books!”

On the Friday, there is a conference for writers on marketing, money mindset and building a fan base, Bestselling authors Steffanie Holmes and A.K. Mulford are among the presenters.

“Over the weekend we have more than 70 authors and bookish vendors who will be selling and signing their books and merch between 9am -4pm both days. These include TL Swan and Tierney Page, who is a Tiktok sensation with over 850, 000 followers and romance author and romance author,” continued Sarah.

There will also be entertainment, a cafe, coffee van and a variety of food trucks catering to all dietary requirements and tastes. There is also a quiet room if you need to take a break and of course the venue is wheelchair accessible, with volunteers ready to help with any additional needs.

Building a following on social media is becoming a necessity these days if you want to get a publishing deal, and it certainly helps to sell books!

Sarah wrote the bestselling series Brigadier Station and the audio books were narrated by Myles Pollard, who played Nick in McLeod's Daughters. She also has a series of books set in Maleny called The Heart Of The Hinterland. You can find out more about Sarah, her business and writing podcast at serenadepublishing.com 

To book tickets to the Sunshine Coast Fiction Festival go to: sunshinecoastfictionfestival.com.au