Avid traveller and overseas explorer, Alli Sinclair based her first three books in exotic destinations with a dance theme flowing through them. Her latest book, The Burning Fields is based in North Queensland and has an historical storyline to fall in love with.

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Sarah Williams:            Welcome to Write With Love, I’m Sarah Williams, best selling author, speaker, and creative entrepreneur. Each week, I chat to passionate and inspiring authors about their journey in creative writing. Some are traditionally published, some do it themselves. Everyone’s journey is different, and everyone has something interesting to say. We all love, love, and love what we do. Today’s show is brought to you by our amazing fans and supporters on Patreon. If you’d like to help support the show, and get some awesome bonus episodes, go to Patreon.com/SarahWilliamsAuthor to learn more. Now, here’s today’s show.

Sarah Williams:            G’day, I’m Sarah Williams, romance author and [inaudible 00:00:53] publishers at Serenade Publishing. Today, I’m chatting to Alli Sinclair. Thanks for joining me today, Alli.

Alli Sinclair:                  Hi, thank you for having me.

Sarah Williams:            No drama. Can you introduce yourself, and tell us a little bit about yourself, and your writing journey so far?

Alli Sinclair:                  My name’s Alli Sinclair, I’m Australian born. I’ve lived overseas in Peru, Argentina, and Canada. Spent a lot of time traveling the globe, working as a tour guide, and mountain climbing guide as well. A bit settled now, back in Australia. I live in Southern Australia, and mother of two kids.

Sarah Williams:            When did your first book come out?

Alli Sinclair:                  First book was Luna Tango, and it came out in August 2014.

Sarah Williams:            Brilliant. That was also the year you won your, or were nominated for a favorite new romance author by Australian Romance Readers Association.

Alli Sinclair:                  Yeah.

Sarah Williams:            Yeah, for that book.

Alli Sinclair:                  Yeah, so it was quite the year, quite the introduction to being published, that’s for sure. It was amazing.

Sarah Williams:            Excellent. Did you pitch to a publisher for that one. Tell us about how that all happened.

Alli Sinclair:                  Yeah, actually I had an agent, who she pitched my Luna Tango to Harlequin Australia. But, I also had an idea for a couple of other books. We decided to just go for it, and just pitch the three books, and they loved the idea for all three, so Harlequin decided to sign me on for that. Which, that was just such an amazing experience. Getting that phone call, I’m running around the house like crazy, screaming, and yeah, it was quite the moment.

Sarah Williams:            Excellent. Have those books just been published in Australia, or around the world?

Alli Sinclair:                  No, being published around the world. I have my books also published over in the States, Canada, and UK with Kensington Books. Then, I’ve also had some books translated into German, and recently Serbian.

Sarah Williams:            Wow, Serbian.

Alli Sinclair:                  I know, it’s great.

Sarah Williams:            That’s awesome, wow. You’ve got all these different translations, so how did that process, did they just say, hey, we want to put it in German or Serbian?

Alli Sinclair:                  My publisher over in the States, Kensington,