Selling Fast
Let's Talk about Love
Trent Dalton + Kat Mayo + Al Campbell + Kylie Scott
slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library
Main Festival
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Love: a short word with myriad, complex meanings depending on the context. From the romantic to the familial to the bonds of close friendship, join our panelists as they discuss the ways love drives their work.
Panel: Al Campbell, Kylie Scott, Trent Dalton
Chair: Kat Mayo
#Artists
Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton is the international bestselling author of 2023's number one bestseller, Lola in the Mirror. His books have sold over 1.2+ million copies in Australia alone. His debut novel Boy Swallows Universe broke records to become the fastest selling Australian debut novel ever is now a major global Netflix series.
Kat Mayo
Kat Mayo is an avid reader of romance novels. She blogs at bookthingo.com.au and hosts a podcast that explores the place of romance fiction in literary culture. Her reviews have appeared in Books+Publishing, and she received the 2014 Romance in the Media Award from the Romance Writers of Australia for her essay, Dear columnists, romance fiction is not your bitch. @BookThingo.
Al Campbell
Born in Brisbane, Al Campbell is a mother, a full-time carer, an AFL hooligan, and a writer. Long ago, Al studied a bit, acted a bit, and pulled a lot of beers. Her first-ever publication was in Overland in 2020, the same year she completed her debut novel, The Keepers, published in February 2022 by UQP.
Kylie Scott
Kylie is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling, Audie Award winning author. She has sold over 2,000,000 books and was voted Australian Romance Writer of the year four times by the Australian Romance Reader’s Association. Her books have been translated into fifteen different languages and she is based in Queensland, Australia.
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