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Christine Betts is a novelist, author of award-winning short stories, and teaches creative writing workshops. In February 2025, her manuscript Homecoming (working title) was long listed in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize, and Christine is a committee member for the inaugural Currumbin Crime Writers Festival, held August 15-16, 2025. Planning for the 2026 festival is underway.

Christine has been a member of the Gold Coast Writers’ Association since 2018 and served on the committee as newsletter editor (2021-23) and speaker coordinator (2023-24). Christine is the creator of the popular Write and Sip fundraising events and patron/judge of the GCWA Short Story Competition (2022-23) and creator of the GCWA members Critique Gro ...more

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	Hotel Déjà Vu: Would you do it all again? 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alia Henry and the Ghost Writer 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splashes of Love: Anthology of Aussie Romance Stories by Charmaine Clancy (Goodreads Author), Anna Campbell (Goodreads Author), Jan-Andrew Henderson (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Set in Paris: Paris in a Day and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mae, June and Paul it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Julie (Paris in a Day, #1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I am giving away copies of my eBook Hotel Déjà Vu all day on October 1 (PDT - so from around 6 pm in Eastern Australia). Just search on Hotel Déjà Vu on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BKWBGVH

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The Sun Rose in Paris (Portraits in Blue #1)

by Penny Fields-Schneider (Goodreads Author)

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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)

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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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