#25: How Ghostwriting Led to a Romance Empire with Cara Bastone

Off The Shelf with Morgann Book · Nov 13, 2025 · 51m

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…