13/10/2025
Image courtesy of Free Images.com The power of first lines in fiction is immense. After you’ve checked the cover and browsed through the back cover blurb, you open the book and read the first line – the first paragraph – the first page. By the end of the first chapter, you’re probably hooked on the […]
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03/10/2025
Have you ever thought of creating a game of some kind? I had certainly never considered it, until I thought of Christian cards.
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19/09/2025
What do you want for your young child - material comfort, which fades or something of more value, which can never be destroyed?
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11/09/2025
Image courtesy of Freeimages.com This is an invitation to join my Writer's Workshop in October where you will discover the 12 Top Tips For Fiction Writers. How did my writing workshops come about? Well, when I first came to live in Cape Town on 2 February, 2013 as a brand-new retiree, it only took me […]
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13/08/2025
Today I want to talk about some admirable qualities in fictional women. If you were to write down a list of qualities you would like to see displayed in your fictional women, it might look something like this: I would like to talk about a few of my own fictional women/girls with the specific intention […]
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01/08/2025
You strike the women, you strike a rock! I’m sure that this saying strikes a cord not only with South African women, but also with women all over the world who have fought for various causes.
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22/07/2025
In this blog post I am talking about some of the characters in my books who have found joy. I’m currently writing mainly for young children and young adults, so I am going to reference characters from these genres in my fiction, plus an additional character from one of my adult novels.
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07/07/2025
I want to share a story about finding joy in hardship. Decades ago, I was traveling through Scotland with a friend from university in her father’s little Mini Cooper. I remember visiting one of her aunts in a small village. The names of both the aunt and the village, escape me now, but I vividly remember, my encounter with that woman.
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18/06/2025
Were it not for the pages of the Bible, I would not have been able to write any of my Christian books. From the very beginning of my journey as a Christian author, God’s word has guided and inspired me to write the kind of fiction that, hopefully, is honouring to Him. In one of my posts this month, I speak about the still-small-voice of conscience. In a similar way, I believe the regular reading of the Bible is filling my brain with wholesome thoughts and life-giving messages that I attempt to capture in my writing.
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