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
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
OFFICIALLY, A Clergy Husband’s Survival Guide isn’t published yet: it’s due from SPCK on August 16th. Unofficially, however, at least one copy has been seen in the wild, in the hands of clergy husband Tim Nutt: CHSG is one of those relatively rare books that has a clear target readership but seems likely to have … Continue reading
IF YOU LIKE BOXING, you’re gonna love The Fight, the debut novel from Luke Wordley; and I daresay even if you loathe boxing, you’ll love that this story pulls no punches in its gritty realism where human life and faith collide. Because this is a story whose author is unafraid to tell it like it … 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
MY THANKS TO ELEANOR STONEHAM for providing this fascinating and challenging introduction to her book, Healing This Wounded Earth (O Books, 9781846944451). Eleanor is another writer I met online in the ACW (Association of Christian Writers) facebook group, and I’d encourage any Christian booksellers reading to join the group: it’s a fantastic opportunity to get to know … 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
