Sarah Mayberry is an Australian contemporary romance author and television screenwriter. She has written several novels for Harlequin Mills and Boon, as well as scripts for the television soap opera ''

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''. She was a storyliner for the New Zealand medical drama ''

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'' and co-created the teen drama series ''

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'' with Kirsty McKenzie. Mayberry and her works have been nominated for several awards, and she won the Favourite Erotic Romance accolade at the Australian Romance Readers Awards in 2015.

Early life

Mayberry was born in Melbourne. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in professional writing.

Writing career

Mayberry knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer and decided to writer romance novels, as that it was she liked to read herself. She wrote some Regency romances, but they were rejected by Harlequin Mills and Boon and she decided to pursue a career in journalism. After reading

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's ''Anyone But You'', Mayberry was inspired to write romance novels again and she made sure her characters were "human and like people I knew". Harlequin Mills and Boon published her first novel ''Can't Get Enough'' in 2006. Mayberry has written over 45 romance novels. Mayberry has worked as a storyliner and scriptwriter for the Australian soap opera ''

'' since 1998. When the series was cancelled in 2022, Mayberry had written 230 episodes of ''Neighbours''. She later returned to the script department when the serial was picked up by

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. Mayberry credited her time with the show with helping her to become a better romance writer. After plotting a long term romance between two characters, she realised where she had been going wrong in her own writing. In 2005, Mayberry wrote three novellas based on characters from the show. Mayberry has also worked as a storyliner on ''

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''. She co-created the 2006 New Zealand teen drama series ''

'' with Kirsty McKenzie. They first approached

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with their idea in 2003, and the network developed the show into a three-week soap opera. Mayberry wrote the novelization of the television drama '' The Lost Children'' for

Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. In 2024, Mayberry received a nomination for Best Script for a Television Serial for Episode 8867 of ''Neighbours''.

Bibliography

Sources: Harlequin Blaze novels *''Can't Get Enough'' (2005) *''Burning Up'' (2008) *''Below the Belt'' (2008) *''She's Got It Bad'' (2009) *''Her Secret Fling'' (2009) *''Hot Island Nights'' (2010) ''Neighbours'' novellas *''Rising Star'' (2005) *''Sisters in the City'' (2005) *''Summer Harvest'' (2005) Secret Lives of Daytime Divas *''Take On Me'' (2007) *''All Over You'' (2007) *''Hot For Him'' (2007) Harlequin Super Romance *''The Best Laid Plans'' (2010) *''More Than One Night'' (2012) *''Her Best Worst Mistake'' (2012) *''Within Reach'' (2012) *''The Other Side of Us'' (2013) *''Temporary'' (with Sarina Bowen) (2017) Porter Family *''All They Need'' (2011) *''Suddenly You'' (2012) Mathew Sisters *''Her Favorite Temptation'' (2013) *''Her Favorite Rival'' (2013) Brothers Ink *''Satisfaction'' (2014) *''Anticipation'' (2015) Montana Born *''Almost a Bride'' (2014) *''Make Believe Wedding'' (2014) *''Bound to the Bachelor'' (2015) *''His Christmas Gift'' (2015) *''Tanner'' (2017) Carmody Brothers *''The Cowboy Meets His Match'' (2018) *''The Rebel and the Cowboy'' (2019) *''More Than a Cowboy'' (2020) Others *''Cruise Control'' (2006) *''Anything For You'' (2006) *''Amorous Liaisons'' (2008) *''A Natural Father'' (2009) *''Home For the Holidays'' (2009) *''Her Best Friend'' (2010) *''The Last Goodbye'' (2011) *''One Good Reason'' (2011) *''Her Kind of Trouble'' (2014) *''Wait For Me'' (2015) *''The Cowboy Meets His Match'' (2018) *''Must Love Coffee'' (2019)

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