By Narelle Atkins @NarelleAtkins
We’re excited to welcome you to our new blog home. Today is the official launch of the revamped Australasian Christian Writers group blog. Many thanks to Iola Goulton for the hours of work she has put in to create our new site.
What’s New?
- A fresh new look and layout that’s user-friendly.
- Monthly gift card giveaways (see below).
- A monthly blog post with news from Omega Writers.
- Don’t miss out on seeing our blog posts. The signup box to receive the blog posts via email is either below this post or in the blog sidebar.
- Guest Blogging and Book Review requests can be submitted via our Contact form.
What Has Improved?
- Our website has more features to support the blog and create a community of writers and readers.
- Our Calendar lets you know who is posting each day.
- Our Book Table page provides easy access to information on our book releases.
- There’s more flexibility in how you can comment on our blog posts.
- Never miss seeing a reply to your blog comment again. The WordPress App can provide you with a notification when someone replies to your blog post comment.
Meet Our Blogging Team
During January and February 2019 our group of bloggers will be posting ‘getting to know you’ interviews. You’ll see many familiar faces and a few new faces. Check out our bios on the Our Authors page.
We’d love to meet you and learn more about you! We want to continue building our community of writers and readers who interact and chat with us and each other.
The blog posting schedule is available in our Calendar.
Monthly Giveaways
Every comment you leave on our blog posts will give you an entry in our monthly gift card drawing.
Check out our Giveaways page for more information. Winners will be announced in the monthly New Releases post in the following month (posted on the second Monday).
Australasian Christian Writers Facebook Group
Our group blog is connected to the Australasian Christian Writers (ACW) Facebook Group. The ACW Facebook Group is open to writers and readers from around the world. Check out our Facebook Group here.
Receive Our Blog Posts Via Email
There’s a signup box on this page that you can complete to receive our blog posts via email. Wake up to a new blog post from us in your email box every weekday morning. The blog posts are usually scheduled to post at 5am (Sydney/Melbourne, Australia timezone).
Connect With Us On Social Media
In addition to the Australasian Christian Writers Facebook Group, you can also connect with us using the following social media links.
Special Launch Week Giveaway
We’re giving away a gift card this week! US10.00 or AUD15.00 in value. The options for gift card winners are listed on our Giveaways page.
Every blog comment on posts this week (7th -11th January) that are posted before 11.59pm on Friday 11th January 2019 (AEDT) will be counted as an entry in the drawing. The winner will be announced in our blog post on Monday 14th January 2019.
Plus, the comments on all the blog posts in January will be counted for the February gift card giveaway. Check out our Giveaways page for more information on our monthly gift card giveaway.
We’d Like To Hear From You
We’re glad you’ve stopped by and taken a look at our new blog home. Please let us know if you’re having any issues accessing any of the features on our website by either leaving a comment here or posting in the ACW Facebook Group.
The heatwave we experienced last week where I live in Canberra, Australia, has finally ended. I’m thankful that we have evaporative cooling installed in our home. The humidity stayed low enough for the cooling system to work properly.
Woohoo! Lots of good fun that is funny. All the best with the launch.
Thanks Meredith! It’s great to have ACW back online with our new website. 🙂
Looks great and is super easy to navigate around. Looking forward to visiting often 😊.
Hi Karen, We appreciate your feedback and we look forward to seeing you here. 🙂
Woohoo! Congratulations team. I’m glad to see a break in the heat of Australian summer – I’m more a winter girl 🙂
Hi Carolyn, Me too! Today was perfect summer weather, imho, because it was mild. I like summer in small doses, and prefer winter with one or two snow showers, if possible! 🙂
Congratulations ACW! The new website looks great and was easy to navigate from my phone. I love the new look and the professionalism evoked. Well done Iola and team.
Hi Cate, Thanks for your feedback and I’m so glad the site is working well on your phone. Tonight I finally have the WP App working the way I need it to work in my phone. An exercise in trial and error with a big dose of patience thrown in, lol. 🙂
This is a user-friendly website. Good job!
Hi Carol, Thank you! We’ve appreciated your helpful feedback on the site. 🙂
Yay!!! 😀
Hi Jess, We all definitely deserve a big yay! Go team ACW! 🙂
Looks great!! Well done ladies and thanks for your hard work getting it set up!
Hi Lays, You’re very welcome. We got there in the end. 🙂
Great work Narelle and Iola!
Hi David, Thank you! It’s good to have the ACW blog back online. 🙂
All looks excellent, Narelle, Iola and blog team! Thank you.
Hi Jo-Anne, You’re very welcome. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
The new website looks fabulous! Happy New Year!!!
Hi Caryl, Happy New Year & thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Looks good! Lots of work gone into that. Will have to spend some time wandering around reading it all 🙂
Hi Hannah, Thanks for stopping by and enjoying exploring our new website! 🙂
What a great looking new blog. Congratulations, team. It’s lovely to see all your smiling faces, and I’ll look forward to stopping by more often.
Hi Paula, Thank you! We’ll look forward to seeing you here. 🙂
Congrats on your freshened up website! It has a clean, crisp and efficient feel to it, and it’s easy to navigate. I enjoyed perusing the Book Table. 🙂 I have most of Carolyn’s Regency books.
Happy New Year to y’all in Australia! I prefer spring and autumn here in VA (USA) because it’s too cold in the winter and there are too many biting bugs in the summer.
Hi Anne, Happy New Year! I’m glad you’re finding our website easy to navigate. The Book Table is fun, and you can click on Carolyn’s name to check which books you’ve read. Plus the Book Table will also sort books via series and genre. Autumn is pretty where I live with the falling leaves. Summer bugs are not fun. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Looking good
Hi Jeanette, Thank you! 🙂
It’s winter here but very wet currently. Not sure which I prefer…
Hi MJSH, We could do with some more rain where I live. The thunderstorms we’ve been having the last few days haven’t dumped much rain. I hope you get a break from the rainy days soon. I enjoy sunny and crisp winter days, when you can feel the sun on your skin despite the cold temperature. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Hallo, Hallo Ms Atkins!!
*waves!* Wicked happy you’ve found me via Twitter!! I’m following you on there – whilst I am also following you via WP Reader. I must admit, I am preferring the Winter stateside – not that I’m blessed with snow or anything lovely such as that this year, however, I feel more than half dead in the Summer – humidity is not my friend. Nor is Spring a favourite as I have pollen allergies which wreck me something fierce every year. Ergo, by Autumn & Winter I feel like I can thrive… save this year, when I came down with a beastly Winter virus weeks before Christmas! (still trying to kick it to the curb!)
I love finding new author group blogs — so happy you caught sight of me on Twitter. I wonder, was it due to my recent s/o of love for #LoveInspired Suspense “No Safe Place”? I find the whole imprint wicked addictive to be reading!!
Can’t wait to see what your going to feature next! Cheerfully, a new reader of yours, Jorie
Hi Jorie, Welcome! We’re glad you’ve found us here at ACW. Humidity is not my friend, either. Where I live the summers are typically hot but the humidity is usually low. A few years ago during a trip to the States I discovered I was highly allergic to ragweed. That was not fun! I hope you’ll recover from your winter virus ASAP.
Yes, the LIS connection is likely how our paths crossed on Twitter. Check out Iola’s book blog (via Our Authors Page) – she reviews/recommends a lot of romantic suspense that’s similar to LIS. Lisa Harris is one of my favourite LIS authors. Thanks for stopping by and following us! 🙂