Seven Authors on Faith, Fiction, and Summer Retreats

Seven authors participating in the 5th Annual Faith and Fiction Retreat are featured in the June issue of Christian Fiction Online Magazine. Click here to read more. 

2011 Faith & Fiction Retreat Book Club Gift Basket Promo for Authors Announced

 

Have you spent money on print products for your books and fees to place those print products at book events, to no avail? Don’t know if anyone seen the material? Saw your book marks in the trash?

What if you could promote your book to a specific book club at that event? What if you could be the only author pitched to them?

The 2011 Faith and Fiction Retreat has that opportunity for faith based publishing houses, authors, and or publicists, who cannot attend the event with our Book Club Retreat Gift Basket Promotion.

Here’s how it works…

For $149.99 the Faith & Fiction Retreat will create a special gift basket for one of our book clubs with a size larger than ten, that have registered for the 2011 Retreat (June 23-25 .) This basket will include:

 your media kit by DeeGospel PR specifically designed for the retreat
 a sales letter created by DeeGospel PR specifically designed for the retreat
 10 of your paper bookmarks
 10 autographed book plates (created by DeeGospel PR specifically designed for the retreat )
 1 autographed book supplied by you
 1 Digital CD of your book excerpt(we will create) and book trailer(if you have one)
 Gift Basket goodies that fit the theme of your book
 Chocolates
 Fruit (Tangerines, Limes, Lemons)
 1 Bottle Sparkling White Grape
 10 bags of Beach Snacks (Trail Mix, Sunflower Seeds, or Pretzel)

Faith and Fiction retreat averages 10-15 national book clubs per year. This year we will prepare ten baskets. If you would like to have your book featured in a gift basket, please contact Dee Stewart at deegospelpr@gmail.com by June 6, 2011. She will invoice you for your basket, once the invoice is paid, she will schedule a time to chat with you about your book and the type of basket that needs to be created.

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3 Gifts to Faith & Fiction Retreat Attendants

 This weekend I fellowshipped with my Write-or-Die Chicks and added some more to the mix, along with the most posh bookclubs I’ve met this year. Honey, these ladies were dressed to kill at the gala banquet.

For those of you who attended the Book Marketing Boot Camp Session, in which I was a part of.  We had to cut our session short, because of a time crunch, so I offered three freebies to you:

10 Book Marketing Tips Every Author Should Consider Before the Book Hits the Shelf

Book Marketing Dee-Mystified Series Planning Workbook: 7 Components to Book Marketing and Social Media Design

The #1 Reason Why your Book Marketing Efforts Fail on Facebook? (expanded version that is not online)

 

You can email me via Facebook and I will send you all three. The first respondent gets a free one hour consulation from me. (A $100 value.)

Once again. Thanks so much for hanging out with me this weekend!

Dee

 

Got Faith?

My view from my hotel suite at the 2008 Faith and Fiction Retreat in Destin, FL.

The Faith and Fiction Retreat is less than a month away and we’re finalizing

everything so that we can have the best time possible!  However, if you plan to attend the banquet you must register before June 1st.

Two options:

1. To do a full registration, go to click here and select the Deposit + Regular Registration balance.  This should total $229.
2. 
   To do the Saturday registration, go click here.

About the Faith and Fiction Retreat:

The 2010 retreat will bring something new!  Along with our industry and book club panels, this year we're going to feature pitch sessions for aspiring authors and previously published authors looking for new opportunities.  The late night book discussions will be off the chain with our 2010 Featured Authors: New York Times Bestseller Kimberla Lawson Roby, Victoria Christopher Murray, Sherri L. Lewis and Tiffany L. Warren.  We'll also feature a host of author panelists and vendors.  You don't want to miss out on the fourth year of the BEST Faith Fiction book event of the year! The retreat will take place at the Omni at CNN Center in Atlanta, GA.  More information will follow on booking information, so check back right here for updates!

If you are an aspiring author, you can enter the First 1000 Words contest here.

Contact Conference host by email with questions at info at faithandfictionretreat.com

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Faith & Fiction Writing Contest Announced

First 1,000 Words

Faith and Fiction Retreat Writing Contest

The first 1,000 words of your manuscript can make your career! Some acquisition editors and agents know after reading the first 1,000 words of your work if theyÂ’d want to represent you or sign you to a book deal. The first 1,000 words can either draw the reader in, or make them put the book down, never to be retrieved again.

Can you get an editor's attention with YOUR first 1,000 words? Enter the Faith and Fiction Retreat Writing Contest and find out.

Entry Fee: $35

Deadline for Submission: May 28^th

It's easy to enter! Just submit to info@faithandfictionretreat.com your:

· First 1,000 words (Fiction/Non-Fiction genres)

· Full Synopsis

Your entry will be judged on:

· Originality

· Page Turn Appeal

· Editorial Content (punctuation, typos, etc)

· Marketability

Prizes

· Grand Prize: Fifteen minute pitch with the pitch session panel (Latoya Smith, Grand Central Publishing; Mercedes Fernandez, Kensington Books/Dafina; Joylynn Jossel, Urban Christian; Dwan Abrams, Nevaeh Publishing)

· First Prize(2): Ten minute pitch with the pitch session panel

· Second Prize (5): Five minute pitch with the pitch session panel

Pitches may be in person or virtual (phone or Skype). Deadline for submission is May 28^th, winners will be announced June 5^th .

First 1000 words entry fee $35

BookClubs are Taking Orlando by Faith

THE 2009 FAITH and FICTION RETREAT FEATURES 4 BESTSELLING CHRISTIAN FICTION AUTHOR in ORLANDO, FLORIDA

ATLANTA, GA, June 23 / --Amidst dwindling book sells in the publishing industry, Christian books, specifically Christian novels continue to outsell literary competition, according to Publisher's Weekly. Therefore it was no surprise that during the summer's heavy reading season Christian Book Clubs rallied to bring the much anticipated third annual Faith and Fiction Retreat to sunny Orlando, Florida.

The Faith and Fiction Retreat is an annual luxury event where book clubs relax, relate and read with bestselling authors. The retreat will be held at the The Villas of Grand Cypress in Orlando, FL. Bestselling featured authors this year are: Reshonda Tate Billingsley(The Devil is a Lie, Simon & Schuster,) Tiffany L. Warren(The Bishop's Daughter, Grand Central Publishing,) TiaMcCollors(The Truth about Love, Moody,) and Angela Benson(Up Pops the Devil, Harper Collins.)

The 2009 retreat will bring brand new panels for book clubs, publishing 101 for authors and late night book discussions for TEENS. The retreat will take place in family vacation spot Orlando, FL at The Villas of Grand Cypress (www.grandcypress.com). Features of The Villas of Grand Cypress include exceptional grounds, free transportation to Disney and Universal Studios, and horseback riding. Other authors presenting panels are: Pat G’Orge Walker, Sherri L. Lewis, Dwan Abrams, Bonnie Hopkins, Shana Burton, Ashea Goldson, Daphine Glenn Robinson, Donna Deloney, Linda Leigh Hargrove, Sherryle Jackson, and Poet Stella Alexander.

The retreat will open its doors to Orlando and surrounding residents for it's first Saturday Summer Session & Author Book Fair. Barnes and Noble Orlando store will host the book fair and author signing. Visit Florida Faith Fiction Fair for more information.

ABOUT THE FAITH AND FICTION RETREAT -

The Faith and Fiction Fellowship started in 2005 when Christian Fiction author, Tiffany L Warren, invited several of her sister-authors on a tour to share the ministry behind their writing. In August 2007, the Faith and Fiction Retreat debuted in St. Simon's Island, GA. . In 2008 The Faith and Fiction Retreat visited Destin, FL! Featured authors were Victoria Christopher Murray, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Kendra Norman Bellamy, and Michele Andrea Bowen. Delegates from the following book clubs attended : Prominent Women of Color (Jacksonville, FL), Circle of Friends II (Atlanta, GA), Sip N Read Cafe (Atlanta, GA), Glory Girls (Rochester, NY), Sisters With a Purpose (Baytown,TX) Spirit of Sisterhood (Atlanta, GA), Phenomenal Women Book Club (New Orleans, LA), Q.U.E.E.N.S of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), The REGAL Sisterhood (Dallas, TX.) Learn more about the retreat at http://faithandfictionretreat.com/

SOURCE

Dee Stewart
DeeGospel PR
PO Box 392833
Snelville, GA 30039
770.298.7539
deegospelpr@gmail.com
Twitter: @deegospel

Christian Authors Booksigning Opp with F & F Retreat & Barnes & Noble Orlando

Hey, folks. Happy Star Wars Day! Happy MomsMonday if you're on Twitter today. I'm passing on this new opp for those who haven't registered for the Faith and Fiction Retreat or who don't know what the Faith and Fiction Retreat is about (email me if you need more info.)

For Christian authors, Tiffany Warren the retreat founder and host is opening up more slots for authors through this week only who would like to attend the Faith and Fiction Retreat. You must register this week, because she has to send Barnes & Noble Orlando(the official bookseller for the F & F Retreat) needs the book list by Friday, so that they can retrieve the titles from their respected publishing houses. If you are not with a publishing house, then you still need to register and submit. The B & N will send you a bookseller's agreement (you know how it goes.) Here are your options:

1. Regular Registration ($119) – All sessions, book signing on Saturday (books provided by Barnes & Noble), promotional items placed in registration bags.
2. Full Weekend *Vendor ($250) – Bring you own books, all sessions, items placed in registration bags.
3. Saturday Vendor ($100) – I only have about ten vendor slots open mainly. This will get them a vending table on Saturday, items in registration bags, and all Saturday sessions.

There will be no sharing of Vendor tables. If anyone needs help with travel (roommates, car mates, etc.) contact us. Visit the link to learn more about the retreat and the name of the other authors participating as well as featured book clubs. Hope to see you there in July.

Offer ends this Friday, May 8, 2009

Dee

Faith and Fiction Lover's Retreat Recap Radio Show

If you missed the Faith and Fiction Lover's Retreat Recap Show on Blog Talk Radio, you can listen in its entirety here or download it to listen to later. Guests on the Show were: Tiffany Warren, Victoria Christopher Murray, Reshonda Tate Billingsley, Dwan Abrams, Rhonda McKnight, Mikasenoja, Ashea Goldson, Ty Moody, Linda Leigh Hargrove, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Ella Curry and myself.

Faith and Fiction Retreat: Ty Moody & Patricia Woodside

I had a blast this weekend. Got to connect face to face with my gal pal, Ty Moody and finally met the funniest blogger I know, Patricia Woodside. Listen to me goof around with these diva chicas.

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Tiffany Warren on Who's Christian Fiction or Who's Not?

Author, Playwright and Faith and Fiction Retreat Organizer, Tiffany Warren on who is a Christian Fiction author and why many author's don't want the name. Listen below or follow me on Utterz to stay in the know.

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Faith and Fiction Retreat: Rhonda McKnight Speaks

My write-or-die-chick galpal, Urban Christian Blogger and author, Rhonda McKnight shares her view of the Faith and Fiction Retreat. Click below to listen.

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