CHRISTIAN BOOKSELLERS, DISTRIBUTORS, PUBLISHERS, SUPPLIERS AND WRITERS — in short, anyone and everyone involved with the Christian trade — are being called upon to stand together in prayer today, Thursday 7th April. The call has gone out via Together magazine: Steve Briars, the magazine’s publisher and managing editor, explains: Thursday 7 April 2016 has been … Continue reading
THE GREATEST JOY of running a project such as this is the people I get to meet: people like Margaret Kazmierczak, author of How to make Victoria Sponge from the little-known publisher, Arbentin Books: full bibliographic details below. After compiling her Christian Writers Directory entry and whilst chatting online via facebook, I asked Margaret what had … Continue reading
Lucy Mills is another of the many Christian writers I’ve met via ACW, the Association of Christian Writers facebook group, and it’s been a privilege getting to know her via social media, following her on twitter and via her blog as she reflects on what it means to be a follower of Jesus “in a distracted world”. Read on to meet her for yourself… Continue reading
SOME STORIES need to be told and need to be heard — this, I think, is one of them. I met Deborah in my days as manager of the bookshop at London School of Theology: she was a regular in the bookshop. Little did I know that one day she’d be one of the growing … Continue reading
PHIL BURNHAM, CLC National Director, reports: There was a very informative post here in January about Birmingham and it’s worth re-visiting as background: Birmingham: 120 years of Christian bookselling set to continue as CLC prepare to move into former Wesley Owen premises Now zoom forwards to the present, and after a good many delays, most of … Continue reading
A NEW YEAR is upon us, and what better way to kick-start that year than a new instalment in our growing Meet the Author series? I met Paul Alkazraji online via ACW, the Association of Christian Writers facebook group. He told me about his debut novel, The Silencer (Highland Books, 2012), so I fired off a few questions and invited him to tell us more. This is the result… Continue reading
Marion Stroud will be no stranger to her readers or to the booksellers who stock her books, most recently It’s Just You and me Lord and Dear God It’s Me and It’s Urgent (Monarch, October 2013: full details below) — but even they may not know that she is also the author of 3 children’s books and 26 adult non-fiction … Continue reading
Please note 19th August 2013 in your workplace diaries. Following a number of calls across social media, Together Magazine and CRT are arranging a Day of Prayer for the whole Christian trade to participate in – Publishers, Distributors, Printers, Marketeers, Agents, Retailers (B&M and online), Agencies and Authors. We envisage this being a focused prayer … Continue reading
GREENBELT: it’s more than just a festival. It’s a time and place where for some, at least, heaven touches earth, where dreams of what might be become reality. Things like the Open Praise Project. Katie Love explains: I go to Greenbelt Festival as a volunteer. I am always excited to go and immediately feel a … Continue reading
DO YOU WEAR YOUR FAITH? I used to, in my late teens/early twenties: I went everywhere in an ex-USAF combat jacket with ‘Jesus Rules’ scrawled on the back in marker pen and a selection of clothes pegs hanging from its frayed edges. Looking back, I suspect it stopped more conversations than it started. But that … Continue reading
