Maya is a bestselling rural romance author and was recently shortlisted as the ARRA 2019 Favourite Australian Romance Author. Her novels Wildflower Ridge and Bottlebrush Creek both gather inspiration from her rural upbringing and the small communities she has always lived in and loved. 

A former country journalist and PR writer, Maya now prefers the world of fiction over fact and blogs for Romance Writers Australia. She loves baking up a storm, tending to her rambling garden, and raising three little bookworms. Maya lives on a small property in country Victoria with her family, her menagerie of farm animals and the odd snake or two.

Maya is a bestselling rural romance author and was recently shortlisted as the ARRA 2019 Favourite Australian Romance Author. Her novels Wildflower Ridge and Bottlebrush Creek both gather inspiration from her rural upbringing and the small communities she has always lived in and loved.  A former country journalist and PR writer, Maya now prefers the world of fiction over fact and blogs for Romance Writers Australia. She loves baking up a storm, tending to her rambling garden, and raising three little bookworms. Maya lives on a small property in country Victoria with her family, her menagerie of farm animals and the odd snake or two.

Join us as we chat with Inspirational Australians making a real difference in their
communities, Australia and often the world.

This podcast is brought to you by Awards Australia, the owners and operators of the Young Achiever Awards and Community Achievement Awards programs.

The amazing people we interview are alumni and from the extended network of these awards programs, because they inspire us with their dedication, achievements and their positive impacts to local and wider communities.

We hope you're inspired by their stories too!

Join us as we chat with Inspirational Australians making a real difference in their communities, Australia and often the world.
This podcast is brought to you by Awards Australia, the owners and operators of the Young Achiever Awards and Community Achievement Awards programs.
The amazing people we interview are alumni and from the extended network of these awards programs, because they inspire us with their dedication, achievements and their positive impacts to local and wider communities.
We hope you're inspired by their stories too!

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In this week’s episode, Geoff is talking to Maya Linnell who was a Finalist in the 2006 Young Achiever Awards for Victoria.