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 …
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Kate Gordon has a new book out Aster’s Good, Right Things. Kate is also an Australia children’s author. Please welcome Kate Gordon, we are happy to have you here and look forward to getting to know you more. 1. Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m a mum, reader, writer and Josh Ritter …
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Today Meredith Resce is the first author to answer our readers questions. Thanks for being the first author and hopefully this will become a regular feature. If you were not an author, what would you like to be? As writing is not a fulltime gig for me, I actually do all the other things I …
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Nola Lorraine has stepped out of her usual academia and editing mode and entered into the magical world of fiction. Her debut novel, ‘Scattered’, is testament to her long-term passion to see the story well researched and well written. I was interested to see Nola chose as her setting the Canadian town of Halifax – …
My first introduction to Kristen Young was when she won the CALEB Award from Australasian Christian writing organisation Omega Writers. I had donated a free manuscript assessment as the prize, so got to read and critique Kristen’s entry. I was thrilled to find it was dystopian fiction. I’ve been a fan of dystopian fiction since …
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Scattered, by Nola Lorraine is a fabulous debut inspirational historical fiction novel. Set in Victorian-era Nova Scotia, the novel employs quite a few genre elements such as historical, mystery, and romance–something for every reader. Maggie is on a quest. Her siblings have been sent from England to Canada as part of the Home Children Migrant …
Please Welcome Lisa Renee to our blog today for Fiction Friday Lisa Renee has a new novel out and at the end of the interview we will tell you how you can win a copy. Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m from Western Australia. Married to Dave, who’s way more creative and …
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The Woman in the Green Dress was initially published in Australia and has now been republished by Thomas Nelson, an imprint of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. I can’t say there was anything overtly Christian about the novel—there was definitely no clear faith element. There was no bad language, sex, or violence, and there was a disgust …
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Today for Fiction Friday we welcome Hannah Currie. Hannah Currie is our guest today. We look forward to getting to know more about her and her books. Can you tell us a little about yourself? Funny how this is always the hardest question in an interview! Um… I’m Hannah Currie. I live in Brisbane, Australia …
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I used to be a teacher and if a student asked a question, I’d do everything I could to give them an answer. Answers help us make sense of the world. Answers are important. When I was growing up in church, pastors seemed to have answers for everything. It appeared there was a Bible verse …
