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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Last week I talked about traditional publishing, focusing on large publishers. This week I’m looking at another area of traditional publishing: the small press. Small presses and micropresses follow the same business principles as the major traditional publishers. Small presses take on the full financial responsibility for publishing and distributing the book, although you’re less …
Welcome to the Australasian Christian Writers Tuesday Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Should Christians read fiction? Why … or why not? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment on this post or in a …
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