Tuesday Book Chat | Do you follow your favourite authors on social media?

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 follow your favourite authors on social media? If so, which social media? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in …

Book Review | A Girl’s Guide to the Outback by Jessica Kate

A Girl’s Guide to the Outback takes Kimberly and Sam from Jessica Kate’s debut, Love and Other Mistakes, and transplants them to Sam’s family farm in the Australian Outback. Sam is convinced he’s a failure, so quits Wildfire, the youth mission he founded. When he gets home, he finds his sister Jules with a broken …

Tuesday Book Chat | Which books are you most looking forward to reading in 2020?

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: Which books are you most looking forward to reading in 2020? Why? Give me your recommendations! We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the …

Tuesday Book Chat | Have you Set a Reading Challenge for 2020?

It’s Iola here. Welcome to the first Australasian Christian Writers Tuesday Book Chat for 2020! This is a weekly feature where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. If you’d like to participate in our weekly Book Chat by posting the question and your answer on your blog, drop us …

Tuesday Book Chat | Who is your favourite Christian speculative fiction author?

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: Who is your favourite Christian speculative fiction author? What do you like most about his/her books? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the …

Exploring Genre | 2019 Roundup and Master List

We’ve come to the end of another year of genre crossposts between Australasian Christian Writers and Christian Writers Downunder, so it’s time for one final summary post. Jeanette O’Hagan kicked off 2019 with an excellent roundup of all our previous posts. We then moved into some exploring more genres in fiction, from well-known Westerns to …

Tuesday Book Chat | Who is your favourite Christian women’s fiction author?

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: Who is your favourite Christian women’s fiction author? And what do you like most about his/her books? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in …

Book Review | The Camera Never Lies by David Rawlings

Australian author David Rawlings has just won a 2019 Christy Award for his debut novel, The Baggage Handler. Congratulations, David! But how does his second novel, The Camera Never Lies, fare in comparison? Personally, I think it’s even better. Now, not everyone will agree with me. One of the strengths of The Baggage Handler was …

Tuesday Book Chat | What new-to-you authors have you read in the last year?

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 new-to-you authors have you read and loved in the last year? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment …

Fiction Friday | Carry Me Away by Dorothy Adamek

Miss Ada Carmichael and her family are immigrating to Australia on the Black Swallow. Tom Darley is a member of the crew. They are about to become the only two survivors of a tragic shipwreck, and turns them into national darlings. But Ada doesn’t want to be a national darling. She wants to escape, hide, …