When the Melbourne Writers Festival program was announced we were very pleased to see several panels featuring romance authors. ARRA member Marg Bates went along and has provided this recap…

When the program was announced for Melbourne Writers Festival I scoured the program looking for any romance panels. No matter who the guests were, I would have gone because as romance readers we need to support the panels at these types of festivals so that they will keep on being included in the schedule. The fact that the guests were Sarah Wendell from mega blog Smart Bitches and Marjorie Liu, who not only writes romances but also writes for Marvel Comics, was awesome and it ended up being one of the most fun sessions I have been to.

I think the moderator for this session possibly had the easiest job of any moderator in any session of the festival. Basically…