11 August 2024
I often wonder how people who don’t believe in God can have hope in their lives. With this in mind, I did a Google search about atheists and have selected two quotes which highlight their bleak outlook on life: In case these quotes make you feel miserable, here are two biblical quotes to counter these […]
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21 July 2024
I am very fortunate to teach in a Christian school, attend a Bible-believing church, and know so many people with high moral standards. Because if I look around me, I see so much greed, corruption, selfishness and ‘I want it all now’ attitudes. As authors, we can counter these attitudes, spotlight moral behaviour, and teach […]
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7 July 2024
Story-telling is a powerful tool. Readers who are invested in stories walk with the characters through their trials, struggles, dramas, and triumphs. When I am writing a Christian story, either a short story, a young adult novel or an adult novel, I become so invested in my characters’ joys and sorrows that I’m not consciously […]
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23 June 2024
Because of my Christian faith, my motivation to write fiction that highlights different themes and ideas in the Bible has been strong. But although I have been writing for more than three decades, it was only in 2013, when I first came to Cape Town, that I seriously sat down to write stories that had […]
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9 June 2024
Now more than ever, in our violent and uncertain world, children need wholesome literature, stories that give them hope and help them believe in their future. Stories centred on acceptable morals that teach them valuable lessons about life. Exciting, engaging stories that will intrigue them as they follow their protagonists through the plot twists of […]
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26 May 2024
It has been my great delight to write both fantasy and more realistic fiction for young adult readers. As I’m writing Christian fiction, my hope is that my readers will learn some key Christian principles as they read my books. However, I’m very conscious of the fact that my stories must fascinate my readers, so […]
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5 May 2024
You’ve been deeply hurt. Someone has blackened your name. Deserted you. Your mind is churning. You can’t sleep. Like Macbeth, your mind is full of ‘scorpions’. You’re desperate for the poison to stop doing its work, but you’re powerless to block damaging thoughts that are flooding your brain. How do you find peace? How do […]
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21 April 2024
Faced with the vast range of titles in all sorts of different genres, how do you even begin to write a book that people will want to read? What can you contribute to the world of literature that hasn’t already been done? How can you be original…unique…interesting? The good news for us writers is this: […]
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14 April 2024
In our 21st-century world, it’s very difficult to contemplate what the world was like before the arrival of the Internet. How did writers do their research? Going to physical libraries? There, too, they would have verified their facts. Or maybe some of them had huge tomes at home, like the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica in goodness […]
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