When a Footprints reader asked me recently for some tips on holding a book launch, I thought it would be a good idea to share what I’ve learnt with others. After all, I’ve put on two successful book launches and attended many over the last few years. Hosting a book launch is a bit like [...]
The celebrations for our 50th issue continue – this time, with a blog tour! So what is a blog tour? I hear you ask! Well, it’s a bit like when an author goes on a book tour to promote their book – stopping at different towns to participate in interviews. A blog tour is the online version [...]
I found the following article buried in my computer archives, and thought it really captured my early enthusiasm for all things Footprints, as well as what the world was like back then (we didn’t even have a website!). As far as I can calculate, I wrote it in about 2000 when Footprints was only a [...]
To mark our 50th edition of Footprints, I’ve put together a collection of fifty fascinating facts about Footprints. Footprints is not the first magazine our editor Janet has headed up! She ran a penpalling magazine with her best friend for about eight or nine months when she was 13. The magazine was called “Cheeky” after [...]
I’m sure this comes as no surprise, but I believe passionately in the ministry of the written word, and what God can do with it … But don’t take my word for it! I’ve compiled just some of my favourite letters, testimonies and readers’ comments received over the past twelve and a half years. An [...]