By Jen Richards This question gets asked a lot in the author forums I am part of. I thought it was worth giving an in-depth answer here. A reader magnet is a freebie that an author gives away in exchange for a reader’s email address. You might also hear it referred to as a ‘lead …
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Writer’s Life | Where do ideas come from?
By Jeanette Grant-Thomson ‘Where do you get all your ideas?’ is the most common question I’m asked. I laugh. ‘From God, I suppose. I used to tell people I was born with a pen in my hand.’ Ideas seem to be everywhere. Sometimes they interrupt me at awkward times, like when I’m falling asleep. I …
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Fixing Logistical Problems in Fiction
By Nola Lorraine Just as Jilly was about to mount her horse, something spooked him and he started going round in circles. Jilly hopped along, one foot twisted in the stirrup and the other trying to launch off the ground. With a Herculean effort she leapt onto the horse, discovering too late that she was …
Recommendation: Rising Son, Gripping World War II Story
By Donna Fletcher Crow Today I am delighted to present my friend Brett Eshelman whose new World War II era book Rising Son has just been released. Rising Son is a gripping World War II story with repercussions that continue to this day. From the burning observation tower during a Tokyo air raid, through the …
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Next Courageous Step
By Wendy Parker What does your next courageous step look like? It’s different for everyone but the chasm to cross still looks the same – Scary. That enormous gap, that gigantic step, the massive move you need to make between where you would like to be and where you actually are always feels way too …
Writers Life | Print or E-Book?
By Jeanette O’Hagan This (Monday) morning, Australia Post delivered a long-awaited box. I was on edge all last week, hoping the box would arrive by Friday, in time to take for its contents – five copies of my newly formatted Akrad’s Children – along with my other books for the Rendered Realms stall at the …
Devotional | You’re Not Here to Think…You’re Here to do as You’re Told!
By Sally Hewitt “You’re not here to think…you’re here to do as you’re told!” These words were fired at me like bullets from a rifle, causing me immediate injury. Of course, I laughed about it afterwards with my school friends, but in reality, the teacher who shot those words at me in class over forty …
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Devotional | Door to Which Door?
Devotional by Karen Rees Scripture: Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. Matt 6:20 Our ministry in Hong Kong is with household servants imported from the Philippines. Many of the ladies spend years working there to put children through …
Author Interview | Brenda S. Cox on Fashionable Goodness
By Donna Fletcher Crow Donna: I am delighted to bring Brenda S. Cox to Australasia today as part of her official blog tour for the launch of her wonderful new book Fashionable Goodness, Christianity in Jane Austen’s England. Brenda, what led you to write a book on this subject? Brenda: In the eighteenth and nineteenth …
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Great Expectations
By Wendy Parker After three years of not meeting together, most writers held great expectations of what the Omega Writers Conference would look like this year. I have to say, by day one my expectations had been exceeded and I still had two more days of the conference to go! It felt like a big …