“What are you passionate about?” was the challenge my friend Veronica issued to me. So many ideas and thoughts tumbled around my head that I started to get overwhelmed with my list.I felt I couldn’t possibly share all of the ideas without people thinking I was either crazy or super prideful.But I don’t believe I’m …
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A Hero for Miss Hatherleigh is my favourite Carolyn Miller book so far. As usual, the writing is excellent, the sense of period is perfect, and the characters. I liked the way Miss Caroline Hatherleigh went through a complete yet convincing change in her character. I also liked the way what could have been a …
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As another Mothers' Day passes us by, whether joyful, sorrowful or a bit of both. My heart and mind turn towards those wonderful people who would take a child into their family and raise them as their own. Prior to the mid-1970s adoption was mandatory for unmarried mothers – a cruel predicament. Many babies were …
Writer's Retreats Fifteen years ago, I decided that writing was my thing and, ever since then, I’ve taken myself away. Away to a library; a café, Oxford University, Tuscany, Massachusetts, London, and Colorado. Away from the responsibilities of home and family, away from other work, to invest in my writing. In 2017, I spent the …
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: What's the one genre you can never read enough of? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment on this post or in …
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Australasian Christian Writers, as part of our affiliation with Omega Writers as their partner Facebook group, has invited the leaders of Omega Writers to write a series on Omega Writers, who they are and how they operate. At our last AGM, the committee and members of Omega Writers agreed to split the Secretary role in …
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How can a wounded young woman ever trust a too-flirtatious earl with her heart? With devastating scars in her past, Serena Winthrop is sure no man can be trusted—especially not a man like the too-smooth Viscount Carmichael. His reputation as a flirt and a gambler is everything she despises. And the young artist makes sure …
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When a bushfire starts the job of a fireman is to contain and control the blaze with containment lines. Eventually the fire will run out of fuel or finally be snuffed out by a change in weather conditions. That’s when containment lines are good. But what if you feel restricted and confined by the containment …
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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: What's your favourite romance trope? First, what's a trope? Reedsy says: Tropes are plot devices, characters, images, or themes that are incorporated so frequently in a genre …
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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 …
