This Sunday, just after church service Girlee and I are attending The Great Cupcake Smackdown. Can’t wait. @BrokeSocialite, my favorite Cupcake Eateries here in Atlanta and some of you, who read my Cupcake South blog will be there and so will I.
I’ll live blog from there so stay tuned. If you’re attending, let me know here on on the Smackdown Facebook Page.
Picture: Some Red Velvet & Oreo Cupcakes I made for my graduating Cousins.I’ll post up the recipe soon.
Dee
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Today’s Friday Fun Read is Diana Falanga P. S. I Hate It Here!
For every parent who’s ever received a letter from a homesick child or anybody who’s ever written their parents with crazy requests from their bunk, P.S. I Hate It Here: Kids’ Letters From Camp will delight with hilarious and heartwarming real-life letters.
This collection of real letters written by children ages eight to sixteen to their parents about their adventures at summer camp are laugh-out-loud funny and will have readers reminiscing about their own camp days.
More than 150 letters cover all the imaginable scenarios of sleep away camp, from acing the cabin lice inspection, to rowing in the “ricotta” race, to breaking the bad news about a retainer lost in the wilderness. These letters reveal that kids are wittier and more sophisticated than we might assume, and that the experience of being away from home for the first time creates hilarious and lasting memories.
I remember my summer camp letters home. I never felt open enough to tell what I really felt. I got this book, to encourage my daughter to believe she can tell me anything. She leaves for Girl Scout Camp in July.
Click here to learn more and purchase the book.
2 Fun things to Checkout This Fun Friday.
1. In honor of PacMan’s 30th Birthday, you can Play the Game Here or visit
Google, which has a cool Doodle version with Insert Coin. Kewl!
2. Courageous (from the same team that gave us Fireproof) is still shooting in Albany, GA. It’s two hours from here. The movie releases 2o11. Check out their site. They have a Vlog of the process.
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This Friday Feature is my good friend, Gina Holmes’ Crossing Oceans. This is a beautiful story very befitting of Gina’s personality, as you will experience when you watch her interview. I hope you enjoy it and take a chance on some well written and compelling Christian Fiction. This book is available at your local bookstore, library and B & N online.
Dee
This week is National Library Week and I almost missed it. Sleep deprived, struggling to fix my manuscript caused me to forget one of my favorite times of the year—this. Why? '
1. Well for one- Neil Gaiman is this year’s spokesperson.
2. Libraries are the only institutions dedicated to reading, housing great literature, and supporting authors.
If you’re a novice reader, visit your local public library to check out a book. If you’re an avid reader, start a reading group at your public library. And if you’re an author, well…write well enough to become a spokesperson for them. LOL. just kidding. Really. If you’re an author, do I have to tell you what to do? How ‘bout you meet me there?
Congrats to Dakota Aycox, the winner of the 2010
at my local (Newton County) Library. Isn’t it cute?
Check out your local libary to find out what celebrations are going on today and tomorrow.
In Twitter Tradition I'm starting a FollowFriday Series here at Christian Fiction Blog. I've been perusing the net, social media convo's and event listings to bring you highlights of the week. I hope you check them out and follow. Today I am also featuring a current book review that I have published. Read below to see who's book is featured. If you would like your book featured, hit me up for my book review guidelines or contact Stephanie at Romantic Times Magazine. There's still time to receive my book marketing workbook for $3. Don't miss out before I close the vault. Now let's do this...ATLANTA, GA (October 15, 2008) – Gospel Music Channel (GMC) television network will take viewers on a unique, behind-the-scenes journey in its first-ever unscripted reality drama series called Revolve: Rockin’ The Road. The five-episode series -- set to premiere Friday night, October 17 -- is GMC’s first foray into dramatic reality programming as well as its first original series targeting teens.
Revolve: Rockin’ The Road follows four advance team members of The Revolve Tour, the popular new travelling tour for teen girls produced by North America’s largest women’s conference, Women of Faith.
The show will be seen through the eyes of four young professionals working with The Revolve Tour this summer: Chad Eastham, Jenna Lucado, Sean Kelly and Courtney Clark Cleveland. Crammed inside a tour bus and armed only with their faith, the four friends trek across America with an agenda to connect with teen girls and spark interest in The Revolve Tour: All Access that kicked off September 12, 2008.
Revolve: Rockin’ The Road will give viewers an all-access pass as the foursome travel to nine different Christian music festivals across the country. The series will capture their collective quest to maintain spiritual peace and discipline amidst logistical challenges, self goals, and inevitable relationship struggles. While some of the cast finds resolution to those struggles at the season’s end, others remain searching.
Christian music artists Natalie Grant, Hawk Nelson, Group 1 Crew, Krystal Meyers and Ayiesha Woods are featured in the series, performing at the festivals and connecting with the Revolve team. A preview of the new show can be seen at http://www.gospelmusicchannel.
Read the AJC for full article.Gospel Today, the Fayetteville-published magazine, was pulled off the racks by the bookstores’ owner[LifewayBookstores,] the Southern Baptist Convention. The problem? The five smiling women on the cover are women of the cloth — church pastors. Southern Baptist polity says that’s a role reserved for men.
Tomorrow Dwan Abrams and I will be hitting the A[Atlanta] for two Divorcing the Devil book events. I will be her mobile bookseller(Mocha Readers, an Essence Magazine Reporting Bookstore.)
