Adrian Powers is an Australian filmmaker whose work has screened worldwide, including at the Austin, Cannes, and Venice Film Festivals. Ridley Scott described him as a “talent for the industry to watch.” He has edited 13 feature films and co-wrote four episodes of Netflix’s Dive Club, nominated for Logie and AACTA Awards.

His short film Brolga won multiple Best Director awards and was added to the Australian National Film and Sound Archive. In 2023, he directed the rom-com A Royal in Paradise and Netflix’s Love Is in the Air (starring Delta Goodrem), which premiered at #1 globally and was that year’s most popular Australian film on Netflix.

His latest film is A Royal Proposal: A Royal in Paradise II.

Louise Alston has directed ten feature films, including Lick, Resisting Roots, and The Will for Passionflix. In 2024, her indie thriller In Her Likeness was released on Peacock and Tubi for Nicely, and Lifetime’s My Husband’s Seven Wives premiered in 2023. That same year, romcoms Three Dates to Forever and The Wedding in the Hamptons were released on Peacock and Amazon for Reel One. Disney Original Back of the Net debuted in 2019. Her films Jucy and All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane gained festival recognition, including TIFF, and have found streaming success. A graduate of UNSW, AFTRS, and UCLA’s screenwriting program, Louise earned a doctorate in creative arts from UTS, specializing in feminist neo-noir film.

Caera Bradshaw is an Australian film and television writer with over a decade of experience in the Australian film industry. She co-wrote four episodes of the Logie and AACTA Award nominated Netflix original series, ‘Dive Club’, and the feature screenplay ‘Skylab Stan’ (which advanced to the quarterfinals of Screencraft’s annual drama screenplay competition in 2020). In 2023, Caera co-wrote the film ‘A Royal in Paradise’ (which received a warm reception worldwide, including a theatrical release in Australia), and the international Netflix hit ‘Love is in the Air’ (starring Delta Goodrem), which premiered at number 1 globally on its opening day, scoring almost twelve million views in its first week.

Once upon a time (briefly) Rachael was an English teacher, then her dreams of becoming a novelist came true. Now she spends her days writing romance and women’s fiction in the Swan Valley, Western Australia. Her book The Patterson Girls won the ABIA Award in 2016 for General Fiction and she has also won the prestigious Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award twice.

When she’s not writing, you’ll find Rachael reading, occasionally sewing, hanging with her adorable Sheepadoodle or listening to audiobooks while driving around or cleaning up after her three sons. The only TV show she watches is The Farmer Wants a Wife and every year she says she’ll read more non-fiction but fails because there are too many good novels waiting to be devoured.

Kylie is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling, Audie Award winning author. She has sold over 2,000,000 books and was voted Australian Romance Writer of the year four times by the Australian Romance Reader’s Association. Her books have been translated into sixteen different languages. She is based in Queensland, Australia; living and working on land traditionally owned by the Jagera people.

Amy Andrews is a multi-award-winning, USA Today best-selling Australian author who has written over ninety contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets. With a passion for crafting stories that blend humour, emotion, and sizzling chemistry, Amy delivers sexy, heartwarming and swoon-worthy reads across a variety of romance sub-genres. She has been translated into 20 plus markets, including manga, and sold over 3 million books. She recently signed a 2 book deal with Harper Collins Australia for a romcom releasing in early 2026 and a ruro releasing later that year.

She lives in a pretty little coastal town in central Queensland where the rhythmic pulse of the ocean forms the soundtrack to all her happily-ever-afters.

Award-winning Australian romance author Ally Blake has sold over four million copies of her more than forty published novels, with each translated into multiple languages worldwide. A popular speaker, and ambassador for romantic literature and Australian voices, Ally is co-creator of the ‘game-changing’ www.HowtoWriteLove.com online course, has presented at writing conferences and literary festivals all around Australia, and is a regular speaker at the Queensland Writers Centre, as well as host of several Book Clubs for Brisbane Libraries. Follow Ally on social media @allyblakebooks and find her books at www.allyblake.com.

Louisa is a career counsellor and podcaster by day, and a former journalist, who loves to write romance set in an Aussie small town. She once wrote a short story to prove tractors are sexy, and it came second in the Spicy Bites competition with Romance Writers of Australia in 2022. Louisa’s novel, “Ignite” was pitched at Queensland Writers Centre’s Adaptable program and a finalist in the RWNZ Koru award. “Ignite” along with “Embers” were finalists in the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) awards. Her short Christmas story “Chocolate and Orange” was published in the Sweet Treats ‘Chocolate’ anthology which won ARRA’s Members Choice award for Best Anthology. Louisa also writes as Sabrina Duval conjuring up witchy romance stories with a body count.

Author, Elle Croxford is a writer-producer, investor, and agent of change who is making the world even more extraordinary through wellness and feel good entertainment. Elle is the author of the Better Now Than Never book series and The Sentimental Blonde. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards such as the Lord Mayor’s Creative Fellowship and the Queensland Writers Centre Fishbowl Writers Residency.