The 2011 Christy Awards presentation was held Monday evening, July, 11, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta during the International Christian Retail Show. The banquet featured a keynote address by celebrated screenwriter and director Randall Wallace and was emceed by New York Times best-selling and Christy Award-winning author, Liz Curtis Higgs.
Congrats to the 2011 Christy Awards.
Contemporary Romance
Sworn to Protect
by DiAnn Mills (Tyndale House Publishers)
Contemporary Series
The Reluctant Prophet
by Nancy Rue (David C. Cook)
Contemporary Standalone
Almost Heaven
by Chris Fabry (Tyndale House Publishers)
First Novel
Heartless
by Anne Elisabeth Stengl (Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group)
Historical
While We’re Far Apart
by Lynn Austin (Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group)
Historical Romance
The Girl in the Gatehouse
by Julie Klassen (Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group)
Suspense
The Bishop
by Steven James (Revell Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group)
Visionary
To Darkness Fled
by Jill Williamson (Marcher Lord Press)
Young Adult
Motorcycles, Sushi, and
One Strange Book
by Nancy Rue (Zondervan)