The Farmer’s Perfect Match by Marilyn Forsyth **Guest Post & Spotlight**

The Farmer’s Perfect Match by Marilyn Forsyth **Guest Post & Spotlight**

Hey Everyone!

I'd like to introduce you to Marilyn Forsyth, who has just released her latest novel, The Farmer’s Perfect Match.

Marilyn Forsyth would love to live in a world where everyone’s story has an ending as happy as those in her books. Her emotion-packed outback romances combine hunky heroes and huggable heroines with settings in some of Australia’s most remote and beautiful places. When she’s not in her writing cave creating characters for readers to fall in love with she can be found travelling, painting in watercolours or canvassing local cafes for the perfect coffee/cake combo.

She has two grown sons and lives, surrounded by bush, with her husband (you may recognise him from some of her stories) in the foothills of a coastal village south of Sydney. She is also part-owner of a castle in Scotland. (Okay, okay, it’s only a one-square-foot plot in the castle grounds but, hey, it entitles her to be called ‘Lady Marilyn of Chaol Ghleann’.J)

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Reality Check

I have to tell you, after doing a heap of research for The Farmer’s Perfect Match I was gobsmacked by the things I discovered, and I haven’t been able to watch reality television the same way since. A major theme of my book is the difference between appearance and reality, and nowhere is that more evident than in the profusion of reality-based programs on our screens. Look, don’t get me wrong, I’m not condemning reality TV. I watch it a lot (just ask my husband J), but with much more than just a grain of salt these days.


I’ve read that all Top 20 of Australia’s most watched television shows in 2015 were reality-based. It doesn’t surprise me, it’s clearly what television viewers want, and studios are constantly coming up with new, and increasingly sensationalised shows (honestly, Married at First Sight? Who’d do that?) to feed that hungry audience.


It seems we watch RTV for the same reasons we watch our favourite scripted shows: characters to empathise with, interesting settings, an entertaining plot. But the thing is, real life doesn’t have a plot and, let’s face it, much of everyday life is pretty mundane. Of the hundreds of hours’ worth of footage that go into making a one-hour show, most of it ends up on the cutting room floor, leaving editors to stitch together an intriguing story with the bits they’ve saved. I understand it’s the nature of the beast, but to combine audio/video from different sets of footage to portray a character in a misleading way, or to coax characters into verbalising feelings they may not yet feel, or to play dramatic music over an innocuous scene in order to create a sense of conflict, it’s…well, it’s audience manipulation, isn’t it?


Evie and Adam learn all this and more about reality television in The Farmer’s Perfect Match.

The Farmer’s Perfect Match

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One farmer + two stunning girls competing for his affection = 1 hit reality show

Gorgeous farmer Adam Armstrong loves his life — he owns and runs his own piece of heaven, a successful pearl farm, and spends his days outdoors in Australia’s stunning Kimberley. There’s just one thing missing: someone to share it with, but when you live in one of the most uninhabited places on Earth it’s not easy to meet the perfect woman.

Enter Evangeline Sinclair, PA for hot new reality show Perfect Mate — smart, funny, passionate and determined to help him find his ideal partner. What could go wrong, right?

Adam has signed a contract to pursue a relationship with one of the contestants and he’s a man of integrity, but Evie, with her very personal interview questions, is opening him up in unexpected ways. Can he stay true to his agreement to find love in front of the cameras rather than behind?

For Evie, a year in professional wasteland after an on-air debacle has left her desperate to salvage her career and Perfect Mate’s success will ensure this. But can she stand by while the man she’s falling in love with is ruthlessly exploited?



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