Welcome to May's new releases and the announcement of monthly winners. Congratulations to all authors of the new releases and to all winners. Having Faith: One Woman's Nine-Year Faith Journey From Infertility to Motherhood by Nicole Zoch (Publisher Lionize Press: Date releases Mar 2019) Having Faith is a love story between an ordinary Aussie girl …
Fiction Friday | Getting to know Cecily Paterson
Cecily Paterson is out guest for Fiction Friday. Please welcome Cecily as we get to know her better. Cecily Paterson's new book is How Not To Be Popular. 1. Can you tell us a little about yourself? I grew up in Pakistan as the children of missionaries and went to boarding school in the Himalayan …
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When Mother’s Day is not Happy
In recent years I have become acutely aware that the Mother’s Day I celebrated as a child and my early years of mothering—breakfast in bed, flowers and home-made cards with hand drawn love hearts—was not a total representation of how all mothers spend this day. Situations close to my own heart have arisen in the …
Tuesday Book Chat | Do you buy and/or read books from debut authors?
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 buy and/or read books from debut authors? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment on this post …
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Exploring Genre | Westerns
In this month's cross-post with Christian Writers Downunder, prolific author Roger Norris-Green discusses Westerns. Welcome, Roger! About 55 years ago I picked up a ‘Cleveland Western’ for 2 shillings in my local newsagent. I thought I could write one so I had a go. At that time I couldn’t even type so I wrote 40,000 …
Fiction Friday | How Not to be Popular by Cecily Anne Patterson
How Not to be Popular by Cecily Patterson is a fun middle grade morality story that's all about doing the right thing, even when it's hard. Maddie is in her final year at Kangaroo Valley School. That means the chance to be voted Girl Leader of the school at the end of the year—something she's …
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A Lesser Cause
I’ve always been involved in fundraising and charity work. My parents taught me that if you come across someone embarking upon a righteous cause, you should help them. Their influence and example means I have always looked for righteous charity projects I can contribute to. From huge fundraising events for cancer research to heading school …
Book Review | Calm, Cool and Connected by Arlene Pellicane
Calm, Cool and Connected is a short book that aims to encourage readers to rethink and reform their social media habits so that we're not distracted by technology to the point we're living only half a life. The book is structured around five habits: H = Hold down the off button A = Always put …
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Tuesday Book Chat | Do you read more or less Christian fiction than five years ago?
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: Do you read more or less Christian fiction than five years ago? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment on this post …
Devotional: Prepared and Protected by Keona J Tann
I’m in a strange season. It’s one that I’ve often found confusing and confronting. It’s confusing because its not at all how I planned life to go. I didn’t look at my diary in May 2014 and say: ‘ok I’m going to bed for 28 months, I’m not going to work for the next 4+ …
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