Fiction Friday | Readers Interview With Elaine Fraser

Welcome to our next readers interview with Elaine Fraser. Today Elaine Fraser is in the hot seat and answering our questions. If you were not an author, what would you like to be? I think I’ll be a writer for the rest of my life, but I’d also like to go back to my teaching roots …

Tuesday Book Chat | It’s Australia Day! Let’s Create A List of Australian Books and Authors

Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: It's Australia Day! Let's create a list of Australian books and authors. We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation by commenting on this post or on the …

DEVOTIONAL: Perfect Peace

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. – Isaiah 26:3 Finding perfect peace is not an easy thing to come across. Often, most of us have seasons where we don’t feel peace at all, let alone have perfect peace. But God’s Words tells us that …

Tuesday Book Chat | Do You Read More Book in Summer or Winter?

Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Do you read more books in summer or winter? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation by commenting on this post or on the blog post shared …

Omega Writers | Making Plans for 2021

It’s a new year, and for many of us that means New Year’s Resolutions and planning for the upcoming year. I recently listened to an episode of the Novel Marketing Podcast, where host Thomas Umstattd Jr and guest James L Rubart were talking about planning in a military context. If an operation is executed as …

Devotional | Prayer of Peace

The start of a new year brings with it hope and new dreams and, after the epic marathon that was 2020, we are all in need of this. Yet, barely weeks into 2021, already there have been lockdowns in a number of states of Australia, and let’s not talk about how Christmas looked for some. …

Tuesday Book Chat | Which Books or Authors Are You Most Looking Forward to Reading in 2021?

Welcome to Tuesday Book Chat. This is where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Which books or authors are you most looking forward to reading in 2021? We look forward to hearing your thoughts. Please join in the conversation by commenting on this post or on …

New Releases | January 2021 New Releases Plus Giveaway Winners

Welcome to January 2021 new releases. Congratulations to all who have new or recent releases this month. Please check the end of the post to see if you were a winner in December. Down by the Water – Jo-Anne Berthelsen Publisher:  JMB Books, Date Released: 31 December 2020 In 1909, Meg Porter heads to Brisbane …

Fiction Friday | Liana’s Dance by Rosanne Hawke

Rosanne Hawke is an award-winning Australian author, known for her young adult novels featuring young adults in difficult situations. Liana Bedford is half Australian and half Pakistani, and has spent most of her life in an international boarding school in the north of Pakistan while her parents work in the rural villages. She speaks the …

The Benefits of Reading Outside Your Genre

Do you read for fun? For self-help? To learn a new skill? To escape to another world? To inspire your faith? To challenge your thinking? All of these are valid; however, it’s easy to stick with what’s comfortable and read the same kind of books all the time. There’s nothing wrong with having favourite genres …