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 …
Author Archives: Iola Goulton @iolagoulton
Building an Author Platform to Share our Love of Books
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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Omega Writers | Introducing the CALEB Award
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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Throwback Thursday | Do the Work (and Build Your Author Platform)
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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Tuesday Book Chat | Do you read “clean reads”?
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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#Throwback Thursday | 12 Steps to a Great Blog Post
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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Tuesday Book Chat | Which author would you like to have coffee with?
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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Exploring Genre – Round Up
In 2019, we are continuing the tradition of a cross-post between Christian Writers Downunder (CWD) and Australasian Christian Writers (ACW), exploring genre. You may wonder if, after two years, there are any more genres to explore. Well, yes, there are. In fact we haven’t come close to covering them all. But before we launch into …
Paths to Publishing | Vanity Publishing
By Iola Goulton @iolagoulton Over the last three weeks we’ve looked at trade publishing, publishing through a small press, and self-publishing. Any of those can be good options. Today we’re looking at a path to publishing that is rarely a good option for the author: vanity publishing. That’s because vanity publishing goes against publishing’s most …
Paths to Publishing: Self-Publishing
By Iola Goulton @iolagoulton Over the last two weeks, we’ve looked at two paths to publishing: working with an agent to attract a major publisher, and publishing through a small press or micropress. This week we are looking at the third option: self-publishing. Self-publishing has soared in popularity since the release of the Amazon Kindle …