Recent political events have left us shaking our heads over the country where that beautiful song was born. But it’s the same old, old story the whole world and the timeline over—of grudges as priorities, of personal interest superseding moral fibre. And my first (rather ungodly) instinct is to crow, ‘It would never happen here.’ …
Category Archives: Writers Life
Diminishing returns on marketing
Last time I wrote an article about the necessity of needing patience when marketing books. If you’re writing a series (which I strongly recommend), then often sales don’t begin to pick up until you reach Book 4. It can be very hard to wait until then. The effectiveness of marketing also diminishes over time as …
Wednesday Writing Wins from Beyond the Borders
Writing and contest news from members of ACFW’s Beyond the Borders zone, plus what they like most about their country
DEVOTIONAL: A Million Little Holy Moments
A Million Holy Moments If you’ve read any of my blog posts over the last little while, you would know that there have been some challenges happening in life. Life on the whole is good, but there are little challenges that we deal with that are at times annoying, at times heartbreaking, and most of …
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Blogging schedule is paused
We’ve been having a few issues with the website and we’ve paused our regular blogging schedule until we sort everything out. At this stage we’ll be offline until early next week. If you’d like to be notified via email when we’re back online with our regular blogging schedule, please sign up to receive email notifications …
Procrasti-Writing: When Avoiding Work Actually Works
Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Sometimes procrastination might actually be a necessary pause or redirection in order to regain our strength–strength in our physical body, in our …
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Devotional | Anticipating Easter
Anticipating Easter As we race towards Easter, and the shops fill with decorations in the pretty pastel tones of a Northern Hemisphere spring, and chocolate chickens, bunnies, bilbies and eggs appear in astonishing quantities, I am reminded again why I love this time of year. It has nothing to do with the Easter Egg hunts …
Devotional | Trenchantly Yours
Once upon a time, it was a common sermon illustration to say that bank tellers handle money so frequently they know when they are holding a counterfeit note. The obvious application was, of course, that the more acquainted you are with God’s truth, the easier it is to spot the enemy’s lies and distortions. While …
Writers Life | Have patience!
We have poured our heart and soul into writing a novel. That first one may have taken us from two to twenty years. We climb the mountains of effort to get it published and then launch it and it disappears with barely a ripple into the huge sea of books. It is hard to even …
Wednesday Writing Wins from Beyond the Borders
It’s time to check in on the international members of American Christian Fiction Writers … and to introduce the 2025 ACFW Virtual Conference. ACFW Virtual Conference American Christian Fiction Writers is hosting a virtual writer’s conference on 21-22 March 2025, featuring award-winning author Kimberly Woodhouse and many more. Click here to find out more. Recordings …
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