by Claire Holderness | Jan 1, 2020 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Happy New Year!!!!! December gave spec fiction another great month of reading with 33 books linked this month, keep up the good work, this is just fabulous. This months post I’ll feature a few of these book and then some stats wrapping up 2019. First up and...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Dec 29, 2019 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
December Round Up:Numbers were pretty light on for December in the historical fiction area, with just 29 reviews on 22 books written by 21 authors. In saying this though, there was a lot of variety in terms of the books reviewed with many older titles popping up....
by Karenlee Thompson | Jan 28, 2019 | Yearly wrap-up
In the ‘Background to the Challenge’ on The Australian Women Writers (AWW) Challenge website, Elizabeth Lhuede asks the question “If books by Australian women aren’t being reviewed, how do readers know what they’ve published?” Now, thanks to the volunteer reviewers...
by ladyredjess | Jan 25, 2019 | Yearly wrap-up
Of the 1104 book reviewed by AWW readers in 2018, 146 were tagged ‘diversity’. This compares with 121 books with this tag in 2017, and 86 in 2016. AWW readers are either picking up more books that feature diversity, or they’re becoming more aware of conversations...
by Janine Rizzetti | Jan 23, 2019 | Yearly wrap-up
And so 2018 drew to its close, with a total of 157 reviews of 111 books in the History, Memoir & Biography category of the Australian Women Writers Challenge. And the most read books in this category were…….(cue dramatic drum-roll)…. With nine...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Jan 22, 2019 | Yearly wrap-up
Welcome to #aww2019 for historical fiction! This first post of the year is dedicated to taking a look at how this genre fared overall throughout 2018. Historical fiction consistently enjoys a big following and this is evidenced in our overall figures: 2018 – 472...
