Guest Post: Online Writers Conference to Coach Catholic Writers to Succeed

Published by CAstfalk on 07/30/2018

Online–September 14-16, 2018, the Catholic Writers Guild will host, via webinar, an online writers conference focused on helping Catholic writers succeed in their craft. The Catholic Writers Conference Online provides Catholic writers with a prime opportunity to meet and share their faith with editors, publishers, and fellow writers from across the globe. Speakers will discuss writing as a calling, literature as evangelization, and even how genre fiction like horror and science fiction can still reflect Catholic values.

Presenters include Joseph Pearce (Further Up & Further In), Michelle Buckman (Turning in Circles), Karen Ullo (Jennifer the Damned) and many others. Recordings and reference materials from all presentations will be available free to all conference attendees.

Seven Quick Takes

Published by CAstfalk on 07/27/2018

Summer Garden Tour Edition

We buried my mother this week and returned home to what seemed like endless days of rain, gloom, and flash flooding. And yet, the sun rises. The flowers bloom. The butterflies flit from flower to flower.

Life is good.

God is good.

Our garden brings no small measure of unadulterated joy.

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Flowers 1

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Christmas in July Sale!

Published by CAstfalk on 07/25/2018

Celebrate Christmas in July with Ornamental Graces! Get the Kindle ebook for only 99 cents or the paperback for more than $2 off the regular…

The Truth Between Us Blog Tour

Published by CAstfalk on 07/17/2018

On Tour with Prism Book Tours

The Truth Between Us
(Bentwood #2)
By Tammy L. Gray
Inspirational Contemporary Romance
ebook, 252 Pages
July 12th 2018

Nine years to win her. Three years to love her. And one decision that destroyed it all.

April Duncan was raised with three clear truths: the family name is absolute, ambition and success rule over every emotion, and love always comes with strings attached. Image was everything in her carefully crafted world… until the mirror cracked.

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Relevant Fiction Reviews: Dystopian Series

Published by CAstfalk on 07/16/2018

Relevant Fiction Reviews

I missed the boat on The Hunger Games and other popular dystopians, coming late to the party with mostly Christian-themed dystopian novels. Here are those that I’ve highly enjoyed!

I’ve listed my review for the first book in each respective series.

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I Am Margaret Series by Corinna Turner

I Am Margaret by Corinna Turner

This was my first foray into a dystopian world – one with a Catholic underground, a brave and reckless hero, and a strong and virtuous heroine. Well-drawn characters and enough tension and action to keep you turning pages long after you should have set the book down. I don’t believe my heart has ever thumped like that during a novel’s climax. Can’t wait for book two!

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Enter to Win a Rightfully Ours Audiobook!

Published by CAstfalk on 07/10/2018

Rightfully Ours is now available on audiobook at Audible, Amazon, and iTunes! Audible Amazon iTunes To be entered to win your own copy, just comment…

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Catholic Writers Conference Live 2018 Coming to Lancaster, PA

Published by CAstfalk on 07/09/2018

The Catholic Writers Guild (CWG) is hosting Catholic Writers Conference Live (CWCL) July 31 – August 2, 2018 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Catholic Marketing Network (CMN) Tradeshow. The CWCL, celebrating its 10th anniversary, provides writers, artists, editors, and illustrators opportunities for networking; workshops on writing, publishing, and marketing; pitch sessions; critique sessions; and more.

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Secrets: Visible & Invisible Blog Tour

Published by CAstfalk on 07/08/2018

Secrets Blog Tour

Secrets: Visible & Invisible

by Corinna Turner, Cynthia T. Toney, Theresa Linden, Susan Peek, T.M. Gaouette, Carolyn Astfalk, and Leslea Wahl

A collection of short stories by seven CatholicTeenBooks.com authors. As described by Mark Hart of Life Teen International, who provides the foreword, “Each story reveals something different about the human heart and our constant (though, often veiled) desire for truth and virtue.”

Secret (n.) – something kept hidden from knowledge or view; a mystery.

Month: July 2018

Summer Garden Tour Edition

I Am Margaret Series by Corinna Turner

Secrets: Visible & Invisible