Plans are well underway for the 2020 Omega Writers Conference, to be held from 23 to 25 October. The conference will be held at Peppers Kingscliff, New South Wales (about twenty minutes from Gold Coast Airport and the Queensland border). Our main organising committee is Raewyn Elsegood, Narelle Atkins, and Andrea Grigg, but there is …
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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: Which authors or novels do you think best illustrate a healthy Christian marriage? Why? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in …
Welcome to February new releases. Congratulations to all who have a new or recent release. The winner of our monthly gift card will be announced at the end of the post. Holding onto Hope By Nicky Edwards (Self Published, Release day January 2020) Stuck in a stressful job and trapped in a toxic relationship, paediatric …
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By Louise Crossley What if I told you that publishing options were right under your nose? During my BA in Professional Writing, I was given both encouragement and preparation for the blatant reality: getting published in Australia is not easy. The competitiveness of the field was clear to me the moment I peeked outside the …
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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: Which authors or novels do you think best show realistic and inspiring Christian romantic relationships? Why? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the …
Today we're continuing our Supporting Local Authors blog post series by spotlighting Western Australia. ‘Local’ at ACW refers to Australia, New Zealand and other countries within Australasia. In our ACW blogging group we have one blog member from this region - Elaine Fraser. Elaine Fraser writes inspirational YA, women’s fiction, and inspirational nonfiction. She …
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A Girl's Guide to the Outback takes Kimberly and Sam from Jessica Kate's debut, Love and Other Mistakes, and transplants them to Sam's family farm in the Australian Outback. Sam is convinced he's a failure, so quits Wildfire, the youth mission he founded. When he gets home, he finds his sister Jules with a broken …
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Fast Five Long black or flat white? Short Mac to start the day, then tea after that. Cricket or rugby? I fell in love with test cricket watching the 2006/2007 Ashes. Hobbits or Mad Max? Hobbits, I’m more a fantasy girl than Sci-Fi. Sun or snow? As my childhood was spent in the Northern and …
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: Which is more important in an audiobook - the story, the author, or the narrator? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation in a comment …
I recently purchased an absolute gem of a book for it contains sermons and writings by Aimee Semple McPherson1 which I’m slowly working my way through. I say slowly because it is a thick book but also it takes time to digest each sentence because she writes with such depth. In the 1920s, as a …
