I knew in 1995, as soon as I heard about the Lewis Awakening—a mighty movement of the Holy Spirit in the outermost corner of the Hebrides Islands after World War II—I needed to tell that story. In 2001 I set about my on-site research—taking one of the first planes to leave Boise after 9/11. I …
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Fatal Domain by Steven James is a tightly plotted yet thought-provoking thriller that lands some solid observations about life and faith.
I spent most of my high school years in an all-girls’ boarding school in Uganda, East Africa. The country was just coming out of years of civil war and the economy was in tatters. It was hard to get hold of interesting reading material, and fiction was a luxury. Our school library was full of …
Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for Fragile Designs, an excellent romantic suspense novel by Colleen Coble. Here’s the Book Description: There’s only one thing more dangerous than family secrets. Since her police-officer husband Eric’s mysterious murder, Carly Harris has been struggling to support herself and their infant son. Her career as …
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Deadlines. Love them or hate them, deadlines seem to define the life of a writer. For some, they’re a motivation. For others, they’re a source of dread. But whether we rush to meet them or let them whoosh by, deadlines shape our writing habits and productivity. A few weeks ago, I signed up for a …
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What are we doing this for, anyway? These are challenging times for authors. I’ve heard from many of my author friends about the frustrations of the past few months. So many are seeing downturns in the number of books sold, fewer Kindle Unlimited pages read, lower ROIs on paid advertising. Things that were working well …
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Welcome to Throwback Thursday! We’ve dug into our blog archives for hidden treasures and words of wisdom. Here’s a list of blog posts you may find helpful. https://australasianchristianwriters.com/know-your-genre-and-audience/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/all-authors-are-world-builders/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/exploring-genre/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/exploring-genre-roundup/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/the-benefits-of-reading-outside-your-genre/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-15/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-do-you-have-a-favourite-genre-or-book-category/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-do-you-finish-reading-a-book-that-doesnt-fit-your-genre-expectations/ https://australasianchristianwriters.com/tuesday-book-chat-does-it-confuse-you-when-authors-use-the-same-name-to-write-in-different-genres/ Please leave a comment if you have any thoughts or questions. We’d love to hear from you!
During a recent walk along my dirt track in the Australian bush, I came across a eucalypt tree shedding its blackish bark. The beauty of it stopped me short, and my son and I spent some time at the tree, detailing the bark-shedding process. The dry bark split and peeled off the trunk in jagged …
Numbing the connection to our feelings of self-worth and status with our busyness can be a way of avoiding the pain and discomfort that endlessly circles our thoughts. We’re so afraid that if we stop moving if we pause for just a moment, the issues that we’ve tried to keep hidden will be exposed for …
When writers think characterisation, they seldom think clothes designers. Whereas my peculiar imagination immediately connected them. Context It all began last Monday, while I fondly folded my 20-year-old Ruth Tarvydas designer dress into an envelope, wrapped it in fancy tissue paper and sealed it closed. Scene-by-scene of my life with this dress unfolded as I …
