Diana Rampton on Regency Romance, Self-Publishing and Finding Your Voice
Stories and Stanza · Oct 17, 2026 · 43:38
Stories and Stanza · Oct 17, 2026 · 43:38
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“If you want to be a writer and you’ve put pen to paper already, you are a writer.”
Diana Rampton trained as an engineer and spent years working in construction in Sydney and London. It took about ten years, and three books, before she felt ready to call herself an author. Six books in, she writes sparkling Regency romantic comedies, with plenty of humour, no sex and a lot of historical detail.
In this episode of Between the Lines, Diana shares her journey from engineer to author, how Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer shaped her love of the Regency period, and why her research for Isadora took her from London to India and the foothills of the Himalayas. She also talks about finding her own voice, treating writing like a job, and her morning cacao ritual. We also get into self-publishing on Amazon, why marketing changed everything for her, and why her next book, Emmaline, is going to be her funniest yet.
In this episode:
Chapters:
00:00 Teaser: Believe You’re a Writer
00:43 Welcome and introductions
02:30 From engineering to author
04:23 The Regency series
05:38 India and historical connections
10:26 Reading from Aurora
15:22 Research and inspiration
21:50 Routine, confidence and self-publishing
30:48 Creating memorable characters
37:47 Finding your own voice
41:05 Next up: Emmaline
About Diana Rampton:
DG Rampton writes sparkling romantic comedies, historical and contemporary, full of wit and mayhem, high-stakes social triumphs and banter-fuelled courtships. An engineer by training but a romantic by nature, she left her corporate career to write stories that bring a little joy and laughter into the world. After being interviewed on ABC Radio’s Nightlife about being a romance author, “radio jockey” is now on her bucket list. Her dream is to set up an animal sanctuary, inspired by her novel Daphne. She lives in Sydney with her Mr Darcy, their multi-generational family and their emotionally needy pets.
The Regency Goddesses series (read in any order): Artemisia, Aphrodite, Aurora
The Taming of the Duke series (best read in order): Daphne, Isadora, Emmaline (coming next)
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