Featured Interview With Author Sara Powter
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I live an hour north of Sydney in Australia. I’m a descendant of four convicts, and this inspired my passion to learn more about them. When I was eight my grandfather moved in with us and I sat enwrapped, listening to his stories of yesteryear and fell in love with the Colonial Era of Australia.
I’m happily married ( 34+ years) and we have one dog and a few tame magpies.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
My mum ( Sheila Hunter) wrote three colonial novels and left a fourth unfinished when she died in 2002. During our Covid 19 lockdowns (Sept 2020) I decided to see if I could write some of my own stories with the aim of completing her unfinished story. As we had just retired I had time to put pen to paper ( in actual fact – fingers on keyboard) I had the first draft of a 150k novel completed in 8 weeks.
It’s nearly three years and I am in the middle of my 21st book. I did complete mum’s book and it was long-listed last year in an International Historical Novel Competition.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Catherine Gaskin, Marcus Clarke, EV Timms, Eleanor Dark, and so many more.
Mum started reading me Georgette Heyer when I was a child. I loved the romance of the era, and then I discovered that mum had written three of her own.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
All of my books, of which 'Hands Upon The Anvil’ is the first, are set in the early days of Colonial Australia.
'Hands Upon The Anvil’ is the first of six in a 100-year family saga set in Parramatta, NSW, Australia.
This book – and all my other stories, follow the lives of the freed convicts and workers who settled in the new settlement and turned their lives from poverty to success.
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