#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 FOLLOW US: Cara Bastone  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carabastone/?hl=en  Find her books on Audible: https://www.audible.ca/author/Cara-Bastone/B085Z38C15  Morgann Book TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@morgannbook?lang=en  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morgannbook/?hl=en  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MorgannBook  Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/morgannbook  Off The Shelf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/offtheshelf.podcast/  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@offtheshelf.podcast?lang=en  Hosted by: Morgann Book Created by: Bookish Media, Morgann Book, and Thomas Johnston  Executive Producers: Morgann Book & Thomas Johnston  Produced by: Stefanie Macchiusi Edited by: Ricki Biramontes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.