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 …

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+ …

#FictionFriday – A Tuscan Legacy plus bonus novella + #giveaway

For Fiction Friday I'm excited to share with you A TUSCAN LEGACY boxed set. The 9 original stories plus the brand new Book 10 novella -- INNAMORATA by Autumn Macarthur -- packaged together for 99c at Amazon Kindle. I'm also giving away a Gift Card to a reader who comments on this post (see giveaway …

ANZAC Day | Lest We Forget

Today is ANZAC Day. All around Australia and New Zealand, children and adults will be awake, showered and dressed long before dawn. They'll drive across town in the dark, hoping to beat the crowds and find a space in the car park at the Returned Services League (Australia) or Returned Services Association (New Zealand). They're …

Ways Authors Can Bless A Reader

I originally posted this about five years ago and have updated it. I wanted to mention ways authors can bless a reader. This if the flip side of my post 2 weeks ago. I am sharing from my personal experience. Fan letters The first fan letter I wrote to an author was Gilbert Morris. It …

Tuesday Book Chat | Do you prefer standalone novels, or a series?

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 prefer standalone novels, or a series? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment on this post or in a comment …

Lame Excuses. You won’t get far carrying that bed.

If you want to see your calling fulfilled, you have to stop with the lame excuses. Trust me, you won’t get far carrying that bed. The mattress is cumbersome and awkward, full of all the lame excuses you’ve justified to yourself and to God over the years. I know all about lame excuses because that …

Why Good Friday?

Many non-Christians around the world may question as to why we call this day Good Friday. After all, today is a commemoration of the day that Our Lord Jesus was sentenced to death, viciously tortured and nailed to a cross. What on earth could be good about that? But we as Christians know that this …

A Surrendered Life

For some time now I’ve been reflecting upon the Garden of Gethsemane and there is just SO much I could say and unpack, but what really hit me was Jesus-the-surrendered-One. The prayers that Jesus prayed in garden were things like: “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from …