Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009 Top 25 African American Christian Booklist





  1. Reshonda Tate Billingsley, The Devil is a Lie (Pocket)
  2. Kimberla Lawson Roby, A Deep Dark Secret
  3. Victoria Christopher Murray, Lady Jasmine (Touchstone)
  4. Tiffany L. Warren, The Bishop's Daughter (Grand Central)
  5. Patricia Haley, Chosen (Simon & Schuster)
  6. Stacy Hawkins Adams, The Someday List (Revell)
  7. Marilynn Griffith, Mom's the Word (Steeple Hill)
  8. Sherri Lewis, The List (Urban Christian)
  9. Vanessa Davis Griggs, Practicing What you Preach (Dafina)
  10. Angela Benson, Sins of the Father (Harper Collins)
  11. Rhonda McKnight, Secrets & Lies (Urban Christian)
  12. Claudia Mair Burney, Deadly Charm (Howard)
  13. Pat G'Orge Walker, Someone's Sinning in My Bed (Dafina)
  14. Jacquelin Thomas, The Ideal Wife (NAL)
  15. Michelle Bowen, Up at the College (Grand Central)
  16. Tia McCollors, The Last Woman Standing (Moody)
  17. Angela Benson, Sins of the Father (Harper Collins)
  18. Xavier Knight, God Only Knows (Grand Central)
  19. Kendra Norman-Bellamy, the Lyons Den (Urban Christian)
  20. Stacy Hawkins Adams, Worth a Thousand Words (Revell)
  21. Vanessa Miller, Forsaken (Urban Christian)
  22. Pat Simmons, Not Guilty of Love (Urban Christian)
  23. Booker T. Mattison, Unsigned Hype (Revell)
  24. Bonnie Hopkins, Now, Then & Again (Walk Worthy)
  25. Zaria Garrison, Prodigal (Urban Christian)
honorable mentions
  • Sherryle Kiser Jackson, The Manual (Urban Christian)
  • Cecilia Dowdy, Milk Money (HeartSong)

Top Christian Suspense Novels 2009 Announced

 

  1.  Claudia Mair Burney, Deadly Charm (Howard)
  2. Brandilyn Collins, Exposure (Zondervan)
  3. Terri Blackstock, Intervention (Zondervan)
  4. Dekker and Healy Burn, (Thomas Nelson)
  5. Amy Wallace, Enduring Justice (Multnomah)
  6. James Scott Bell, Deceived (Zondervan)
  7. Mindy Clark, Under the Cajun Moon (Harvest House)
  8. Robin Parrish, Off World (Bethany House)
  9. Tracey Bateman, Thirst (Random House)
  10. Tom Davis, Scared (David C. Cook)

Christian Fiction Blog's 2009 Top Ten Reads Announced






  1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie That Thing Around Your Neck (Knopf)
  2. Tosca Lee Havah (NavPress)
  3. Athol Dickson Lost Mission (Bethany House)
  4. Mary Demuth Slowburn (Zondervan)
  5. Richard Dozier Crossing Lines (David C. Cook)
  6. Bonnie Grove Talking to the Dead (David C. Cook)
  7. Nicole Seitz, A Hundred Years of Happiness (Thomas Nelson)
  8. Cindy Woodsmall The Hope of Refuge (Random House)
  9. Deanne Gist, A Bride in the Bargain(Bethany House)
  10. Rhonda McKnight Secrets & Lies (Urban Christian)

Top Ten Gospel Fiction Novels 2009 Announced





  1. Pat Haley Chosen (Simon & Schuster)
  2. Reshonda Tate Billingsley The Devil is a Lie Pocket)
  3. Victoria Christopher Murray Lady Jasmine (Touchstone)
  4. Tiffany L. Warren The Bishop's Daughter (Grand Central)
  5. Stacy Hawkins Adams The Someday List (Revell)
  6. Vanessa Davis Griggs Practice What You Preach (Dafina)
  7. Sherri Lewis The List (Urban Christian)
  8. Marilynn Griffith Songs of Deliverance (Revell)
  9. Angela Benson Sins of the Father (Harper Collins)
  10. Rhonda McKnight Secrets & Lies (Urban Christian)

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Top Christian Romance Novels 2009 Announced




Have you been enjoying these top lists? I have. It's fun to recap the year, especially when it's romance novels. I review these type novels for Romantic Times Magazine(multicultural inspirational.) I read them most and am actually writing one now and will be writing another one after this current WIP is complete. Come back tomorrow and next week for more top picks. Taking nominations for CFB fan favorites. Email me at deegospelpr at gmail dot com. Nominations close January 2, 2009.

  1. Lisa Samson, The Passion of Mary Margaret (Center Point)
  2. Cindy Woodsmall The Sound of Sleigh Bells (Random House)
  3. Denise Hunter, The Seaside Letter (Thomas Nelson)
  4. Tiffany L. Warren The Bishop's Daughter(Grand Central)
  5. Terri Kraus, Project Restoration (David C. Cook)
  6.  Stacy Hawkins Adams, The Someday List (Revell)
  7. Marilynn Griffith Mom's the Word(Steeple Hill)
  8. Deborah Vogts Snow Melts in Spring (Zondervan)
  9. Kaye Dacus Stand in Groom (Barbour)
  10. Sherri Lewis, The List (Urban Christian)
  11. Karen Kingsbury, Rejoice (Tyndale)
  12. Alice Wiser How Sweet It Is(Bethany House)
  13. Jacquelin Thomas, The Ideal Wife (NAL)

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Top Christian Scifi Novels 2009 Announced






Christian Fiction Blog
This year there were some great spec-fic books released, so we couldn't pick just ten. Christian Fiction Blog has picked twelve of our best reads for 2009 below:


  1.  Bonnie Grove's Talking to the Dead (David C. Cooke)
  2. C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters (Tyndale)
  3. Ted Dekker and Kaci Hill, Elyon (Thomas Nelson)
  4.  Robin Parrish, Off World (Bethany House)
  5. Melody Carlson, The Other Side of Darkness (Multnomah)
  6. Bryan Davis, The Bones of Makaidos (Living Ink)
  7. Donita K. Paul, The Vanishing Sculptor (Random House)
  8. Jeff Struecker & Alton Gansky, Certain Jeopardy (B & H)
  9. Liam Roberts, The Y Factor( Realms)
  10. T. L. Hines, Faces in the Fire (Thomas Nelson)
  11. Kerry Nietz, A Star Curiously Shining (Marcher Lord Press)
  12. Anne Rice, Angel Time (Random House)

Monday, December 28, 2009

Is Avatar's Religion Blending a Cautionary Tale for Christian Writers

 Avatar

3 Theolgical Challenges for the Christian Writer

"...This is not your so-called classic human tale of the struggle between good and evil. Hades, but you humans always have a way of distorting the truth into something utterly simplistic and banal--not to mention trite." - an excerpt from Demon: A Memoir(Tosca Lee, NavPress, 2007)

Merry Christmas! This weekend my sister and I, who are big Sci-fi and Zoe SaldaƱa fans watched Avatar Movie 3D.
 
Avatar's main conflict is between the humans of 2015 and the Navi's. The Navi's are an ethnic enclave of Pandorans, who once befriended the humans when they first arrived until they realized that they weren't another Pandoran race, but humans in disguise, hence the name Avatar. We then learn the true purpose of the human's arrival to Pandora. They desire to retrieve unobtainium, a mineral vital to human survival. Unfortunately for the humans, the largest deposit of this mineral lives under Kelutrel, the Na'vi's Hometree.Thus, the problem. The problem gets deeper when a human Avatar Jake Sully not only falls in love with the Navi princess, Neytiri, but Pandora and the Navi way.(similar to Dances with Wolves.)
It was a visually stunning movie. I liked it. From my internal editor's point of view the ending satisfied it's audience. Many clapped after it was over, including my sister.

However, what stood with me longer than anything was it's hierology's blending and watering of Christian theology.  Three things concerned me: Read more Here

Christian Fiction Blog's 2009 Best Historical



 This year has been a great year for Christian fiction. So good Christian Fiction Blog will be counting down all week. You can use our search engine torecap of the top 10s for each month in 2009. Today we will spotlight the Best Historicals.  Historicals had a great year. So many, hopefully there were enough readers to satisfy. Would love to read a historical written by an African-American Christian author about the Woman's Club Movement or the colonization of Sierra Leon by former slaves.


  1. Ginger Garrett, In the Arms of the Immortals (David C. Cook)
  2. Deeanne Gist, Deep in the Heart of Trouble (Bethany House)
  3. Judith Miller, The Carousel Painter (Bethany House)
  4. Mary Lu Tyndall,  The Blue Enchantress (Barbour)
  5. Lynn Austin, Though Waters Roar (Bethany House)
  6. Lauraine Snelling, A Measure of Mercy(Bethany House)
  7. Siri Mitchell, Love's Pursuit (Center Point)
  8. Jane Kilpatrick, A Flickering Light (Center Point)
  9. Kay Marshall Strom, The Call of Zulina(Abingdon Press)
  10. Allison Pittman, Stealing Home (Harper Collins)
  11. Update: Tricia Goyer, The Swiss Courier (Moody)

Friday, December 25, 2009

Madea's Christmas: Replay



If you didn't see it last year, here it is again. Madea's Christmas. Enjoy. Click on my playlist to view all 5 parts. 
OT: Condolences again to Mr. Tyler Perry whose mom passed this month. Holidays are hard when loved ones have gone on. My great aunt Mildred passed last week. I miss her greatly and  still miss my grandmother, Minnie.

Be blessed, y'all.

Dee

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Best Novels Turned into Christmas Movies; #1: A Christmas Carol



 



This movie is #1 for 1 reason. It's so good that it's constantly duplicated, readapted and upgraded. Check out this small list below of movies that have taken Charles Dicken's novella from a ghost story to a classic:
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past
  • A Diva's Christmas
  • Scrooge
  • Scrooged
  • Mister McGoo's Christmas Carol
  •  a longer list here. wow

Best Novels Turned Christmas Movies: #2: The Bishop's Wife



Ha! I can't put the two together, although The Preacher's Wife and The Bishop's Wife were both based on Robert Nathan's book. However, I am a die hard Cary Grant fan and when I learned that Penny Marshall was upgrading it with a gospel feel (The Preacher's Wife) I was giddy. Cary Grant's The Bishop Wife is my #2.

If you have favorites, share them here or on Facebook or Twitter. I would love to know!

Best Novels Turned into Christmas Movies: #3:The Preacher's Wife




I have this movie in queue in my room right now. The Preacher's Wife, It is the Penny Marshall version Robert Nathan's novel, The Bishop's Wife(The Bobbs-Merrill Co (1928).) I love this movie because Denzel Washington, Gregory Hines and Whitney Houston are in it.

More about the book:
The angelMichael comes to fill a vacancy on the staff of a local bishop. While there he falls in love with the bishop's wife. He offers her a proposition: leave her husband for him. The movie adaptation of the novel is different than the movie.

Best Novels Turned Christmas Movies; #4: The Note




I am a big Angela Hunt fan, so of course the Hallmark Channel's movie adaptation of The Note makes the best novels turned Christmas Movies List. I love that it is also Christian Fiction.

Synopsis: Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder is proud of three things--her immaculate VW Jetta, her status as a strong single woman, and her ability to write fast--until her editor warns that her column is failing. She is given three weeks to change either her approach or her job. 
 
As Peyton considers her future, the unthinkable happens--PanWorld Flight 848, en route from New York to Tampa, bursts into flame and crashes in Tampa Bay. All 261 people aboard are killed. For a week Peyton and her fellow reporters cover the nation's worst air disaster with numbed emotions, then they try to move on. 

Peyton is wondering how to attract readers when a woman approaches and hands her a plastic bag that washed up behind her house. It contains a note, almost certainly from the doomed flight, with a simple message-- “T--I love you. All is forgiven. Dad.” Peyton now has the perfect story to attract readers . . . and a tool to uncover lessons about love, forgiveness, and about herself.

Monday, December 21, 2009

Best Novels turned Christmas Movies Countdown: #5: A Dog Named Christmas



We're having fun this week by counting down the best novels turned Christmas movies. I'm pleased to announce that many of these books are Christian Fiction Titles. I welcome any recommendations for this list. Hit me up here or tweet me @deegospel.

#5. A Dog Named Christmas

aired 11/29/09 CBS. A Hallmark Movie.
Novel: A Dog Named Christmas (November 2008)
Author: Greg Kincaid
Publisher: Random House

Synopsis:When Todd McCray, a developmentally challenged young man still living on his parents’ Kansas farm, hears that a local animal shelter is seeking temporary homes for its dogs during the days leading to Christmas, he knows exactly what he wants for the holidays. His father objects, but Todd’s persistence quickly wins out. Soon the McCrays are the short-term foster family for a lovable pooch the young man names Christmas.

But what about all the other dogs who will be forced to spend the Yuletide season in cages? In the days that follow, Todd uses his special gifts of persuasion to encourage his hometown to participate in the “Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program.” What follows from his small act of kindness will teach his family, and his community, about peace on earth and good will toward men—and animals.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

How to Keep your Writing Momentum During the Holidays




If you are a hardworking Master's Writer like me, then I'm sure you are challenged during the holidays. I have to complete two magazine articles, three book reviews, blog maintenance, two editing projects, a devotional, three mag queries to pitch, and an ambitious wish to complete a first novel draft before my birthday in February. I want to lock all those commitments away until after New Year's. However, I have deadlines, personal goals, and promises to keep. So how do you keep your writing momentum up when there are so many reasons roadblocks, entertainment requests, distractions, and family obligations on your plate? Here are three things that I am doing. You are welcome to do them to.
  1. Pray More
As The Master's Artist we need to stay vertical--tapped into our Source. Praying not only keeps us focused it answers our daily challenges, it directs our paths, and sometimes we receive the necessary adjustments we need to make to stay our course. During this time of year I pray more and eat less. I pray more and watch TV less. I pray more and chat online less. Get my drift. I use my church's advent calendar to keep my prayers in perspective during the holidays.


    2.    Maintain a Writing Schedule

I am a fan of (RTM ) Remember the Milk. This online tool allows me to keep up with my todo tasks and my clients via Google Mail or my Palm smartphone. I never miss a deadline with this. I also plan writing time here. However, I get a slap on the wrist for sometimes ignoring my writing time. Sometimes--oftentimes--I use this time to answer more emails, edit a client's work, anything but write. This reason is why praying more at this time is vital to me. If schedule my writing time immediately after prayer and meditation.

    3. Commit to Completing only 3


Do you really think I will complete all that work? Come on now. LOL. I have overachiever syndrome. I double book my ownself. Believe me I'm getting help for this. In fact, this last tip comes from my life coach, Wendy Bailey. Commit to 3 Projects per day. I even go further as to responding to only 3 emails, ,taking only 3 calls a day during this time, and 3 tweets. After all this is a time of glory, reflection, praise, and family time. We have to honor this time with our undevoted time. So I only do 3 a days(one for the father, son, and Holy Spirit.) If you hear from me, then feel special. You are 1 of 3. LOL. Most importantly, it frees of your time to write.


Hey, did you notice I only gave you 3 tips?

Saturday, December 19, 2009

The Christmas Kitchen

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!


Today's Wild Card author is:


and the book:

Howard Books (October 6, 2009)
***Special thanks to Jennifer Willingham of Simon and Schuster for sending me a review copy.***

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


Tammy Maltby is a writer, speaker, and media personality. For eight years, she was the co-host of the Emmy Award-winning television talk show, Aspiring Women. She serves on the board of the National Women’s Ministry Association, Christian Women in Media and Arts, and Women of Courage International. She and her family live in Colorado Springs, CO.


Visit the author's website.

Product Details:

List Price: $14.99
Hardcover: 132 pages
Publisher: Howard Books (October 6, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416587659
ISBN-13: 978-1416587651

AND NOW...THE FIRST CHAPTER:


Press this picture to browse inside the entire book:


Friday, December 18, 2009

Media Candy Sneak Peak: Your Comments Needed

Media Candy Sneak Peak

I've been compiling notes, blog posts and articles I've written over the past five years to pour them into my book, Media Candy:Yummying Up the Marketplace. Here's a sneak peak. Please give me feedback and suggestions.  Thanks!

Dee

Thursday, December 17, 2009

3 Press Release Don’ts for Authors

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As a literary business hybrid, I get to see the publishing industry in three dimensional terms. As a writer, I share the same pangs and long hours of marketing my latest writing project or literary event. As a publicist, I spend hours creating the best press release for my clients with hopes that it grabs my media friends attention. As a member of the press, I take great care in scrutinizing author requests to be featured in on my blog or magazine department or radio show in my charge.

All three aspects of me require basic marketing acumen. All further require a brilliant press release(either on the part of me creating one or me receiving one) to help me stay successful.
What I’ve found is that my press release submission ratio is higher than most and my press release acceptance ratio is very high. In short, I’m pretty successful creating press releases, but unsuccessful retrieving good ones to help me satisfy my many writing assignments.

So I thought it would be best if I share the three major guffaws a writer should never take when creating a press release. All three are mistakes I’ve witnessed and/or participated in before I knew any better. Click here to continue.

December Christian Fiction Blog Top Ten Announced

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1.
The Perfect Christmas
Debbie Macomber (Hardcover - Sep 29, 2009)
2.
Goodness and Mercy
Vanessa Davis Griggs (Paperback - Dec 1, 2009)
5.
Saving Cicadas
Nicole Seitz (Paperback - Dec 1, 2009)
6.
Secrets and Lies
Rhonda McKnight (Paperback - Dec 1, 2009)
9.
It's in My Blood
Shawneda C. Marks (Paperback - Dec 1, 2009)
10.
The Christmas Secret
Donna VanLiere (Hardcover - Oct 13, 2009)

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