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
TODAY I’M DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE the launch of a new service from UKCBD: the Christian Writers Directory. It’s exactly what the name suggests, an online guide to the people without whom there would quite simply be no Christian bookshops, no Christian book trade at all in fact. The project is a natural extension of UKCBD: … 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
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
IT’S A GREAT PLEASURE AND A PRIVILEGE TODAY to welcome Abidemi Sanusi for this weekend’s guest post and latest contribution to the growing Meet the Author series. Abidemi is a writer and former human rights worker who first came to prominence in the Christian book trade with her book ‘Kemi’s Journal of Life, Love & Everything’ (Scripture Union, 2005). Her … Continue reading
CONGRATULATIONS to Donna Fletcher Crow on the publication of A Darkly Hidden Truth, the second book in her ‘Monastery Murders’ series with Monarch Books. Donna is another writer I met in the ACW (Association of Christian Writers) facebook group: she is the author of 36 books, mostly novels dealing with British history, her best known work being the … Continue reading
IF YOU’VE BEEN in the Christian book trade for any length of time, odds are you’ve heard of Ali Hull; you may even know her. But if not, that’s not surprising: she’s one of those remarkable people who work away in the background, helping authors turn their ideas into books, one of the unsung heroes … Continue reading
I MET FIONA VEITCH SMITH online via the Association of Christian Writers facebook group, where she was telling us a bit about her experiences of trying to persuade Christian bookshops to stock her new children’s book, David and the Hairy Beast. Curious to know more, I checked out her website where I found, to my delight, … Continue reading
I’ve known about the Association of Christian Writers (ACW) for some time, although I can’t remember where I first came across them. Was it through a flyer in magazine, or perhaps an encounter at CRE? Whatever the case, we as booksellers and the authors who write the books we sell — as well as those … Continue reading
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