I’ve judged several writing contests over the last five years, including full published novels, short (5,000 words) and shorter (five page) introductions to unpublished manuscripts, and short stories (1800 words). I’ve judged for Romance Writers of New Zealand, American Christian Fiction Writers, and Omega Writers. And, yes, I’m organising the CALEB Award for Omega Writers …
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Rachel Somers is the bestselling author of series of relationship books … except the whole of America thinks her aunt, Dr. Donna Sommerville, is the author. Now, lots of published books are actually written by ghostwriters, so that’s no big deal. But Rachel is more than the author. She’s also the voice behind a lot …
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It’s Iola here. Welcome to our Australasian Christian Writers Tuesday Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: What is your favourite setting to read about? Um, all of them? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment …
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It’s Iola here. Welcome to our Australasian Christian Writers Tuesday Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Do you like to read about characters from another race or nationality? I know. It’s kind of a trick question. Those of us who live Down Under …
Sharing our love of books. That’s the Australasian Christian Writers tagline. Our mission, if you prefer. The contributors to Australasian Christian Writers are all Christians. Most of us live in Australia or New Zealand, although some of our guest bloggers will come from further afield (but most will have a close connection to Australia or …
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Last month, Meredith Resce introduced us to Omega Writers, and to her role as President. Today I’m here to share my role as the new coordinator of the CALEB Award, and to give you a little background to the award. As many of you know, the CALEB is the brainchild of former Omega Writers President …
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Last year, I attended a local Christian women’s conference, One Heart. We had a variety of speakers and testimonies over two days speaking on an aspect of the conference theme: Faith, Freedom, Fullness. The first speaker introduced the theme of faith, talking about how we often treat faith as a noun, a thing. But we …
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It’s Iola here. Welcome to our Australasian Christian Writers Tuesday Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Do you read “clean reads”? How do you define clean reads? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment on …
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Blogging. It’s often considered one of the basics of a good author platform. But a lot of authors find writing a great blog post an unpleasant chore. Today I’m resharing my 12 Steps to a Great Blog Post to help you write and publish great posts. And if even the thought of establishing a blog …
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It’s Iola here. Welcome to our Australasian Christian Writers Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Which author would you like to have coffee with? Why? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment on this post …
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