#25: How Ghostwriting Led to a Romance Empire with Cara Bastone

This week on Off The Shelf, Morgann sits down with Cara Bastone to chat all things romance and audiobooks! The two discuss how Cara transitioned from ghostwriting to writing her own romance novels to becoming an Audible Originals author. Cara also shares the difference in writing romance for physical novels vs. audiobooks and what some of her favourites are! 

CHAPTERS: 

0:00 Introduction

0:55 Fruit Hot takes

2:10 Becoming a romance writer

4:50 A scene that changed it all 

6:35 Ghost writing to published author

10:12 Kristin Hannah's Influence on Cara

11:06 What Cara has learned along the way

12:01 How does ghost writing work?

16:00 Author struggles

19:00 The scenes that come out of nowhere

22:55 Grief in Promise Me Sunshine

30:48 Pregnancy Trope in Ready or Not

33:01 Cover Design

34:09 Live again list (with a twist)

40:16 What it’s like to write Audible Originals

41:37 Difference between writing audio and physical dialogue

47:08 Would Cara narrate an audiobook?

48:02 Favourite audible original

50:49 Where are romance audiobooks headed?

52:11 Cara’s next book release

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