Rhonda McKnight Featured in February Christian Fiction Online Magazine

Love is on the bookshelves in our favorite Christian bookstores; however, there is one author you may miss in LifeWay, Parable, or your local Family bookstore: best-selling Christian fiction author Rhonda McKnight. She writes for Urban Christian, an imprint of Urban Books, one of a growing number of Christian imprints owned by secular publishers.

Rhonda stopped by Christian Fiction Online Magazine to talk about her upcoming women’s fiction/romance hybrid What Kind of Fool and why love is sometimes hard to bloom.

Rhonda McKnight owns Legacy Editing, a freelance editing service for fiction writers, and Urban Christian Fiction Today (www.urbanchristianfictiontoday.com ), a popular Internet site that highlights African-American Christian fiction. She’s also the vice president of the Faith Based Fiction Writers of Atlanta. Originally from a small coastal town in New Jersey, her home has been Atlanta, Georgia, for almost twelve years.

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Christian Fiction: An Inconvenient Friend Book Trailer

Today Christian Fiction Blog is spotlighting Rhonda McKnight's An Inconvenient Friend for our Trailer Park Tuesday feature. Click the video to learn more about this book and how to purchase it.

Win a Bath & Body Works Spa Bag for your Inconvenient Friend

Do you have a friend, who is a bit…inconvenient? What about a friend, who’s really a frienemy? Hmmm…What about a friend like Samaria Jacobs?

Samaria Jacobs has her sights set on Gregory Preston. A successful surgeon, he has just the bankroll she needs to keep her in the lifestyle that her credit card debt has helped her grow accustomed to. Samaria joins New Mercies Christian Church to get close to Gregory’s wife. If she gets to know Angelina Preston, she can become like her in more than just looks, and really work her way into Greg’s heart. Just when Samaria thinks she’s got it all figured out, she finds herself drawn to Angelina’s kindness. Will she be able to carry out her plan after she finds herself yearning for the one thing she’s never had . . . the friendship of a woman?

Share your friendmares (friend nightmare) at Rhonda McKnight’s An Inconvenient Friend Social Media Tour. Participants get a chance to win eligible to win a Bath and Body Works Spa Bag that includes::

• an autographed copy of An Inconvenient Friend by Rhonda McKnight
• an autographed copy of Secrets and Lies by Rhonda McKnight
• a $25 Gift Card courtesy of Tywebbin.com.

And one Christian Fiction Blog Bunny, who mentions me and this here blog when they hop over there get’s a gift from me. How convenient is that?

Click here to Hop on Over to An Inconvenient Friend Social Media Fest

 

Related post: My Interview with Rhonda McKnight at Christian Fiction Online Magazine

Christian Fiction Publishing Outside the Proverbial Box

My August  MD Column for Christian Fiction Online Magazine

This summer I have been blessed to feature women’s voices in Christian fiction. Last month I shared four women authors who have inspired us by telling American history through their eyes. This month I want to step into the future.

With the digitization of publishing and the changing formatting of book creation, the publishing industry is evolving, changing at a rate so fast the industry still hasn’t caught up. ABA publishers are purchasing CBA houses. Marquee authors are losing book deals or changing houses, while other authors, especially women authors, are riding these shifts like a soft ripple on a lake. Click link to continue.

TPT: Rhonda McKnight’s An Inconvenient Friend

Today’s Trailer Park Tuesday spotlight is my write-or-die chick Rhonda McKnight’s An Inconvenient Friend(Urban Christian)

Synopsis:

Samaria Jacobs has her sights set on Gregory Preston. A successful surgeon, he has just the bankroll she needs to keep her in the lifestyle that her credit card debt has helped her grow accustomed to. Samaria joins New Mercies Christian Church to get close to Gregory’s wife. If she gets to know Angelina Preston, she can become like her in more than just looks, and really work her way into Greg’s heart.

Angelina Preston’s life is filled with a successful career and busy ministry work, but something’s just not right with her marriage. Late nights, early meetings, lipstick- and perfume-stained shirts have her suspicious that Greg is doing a little more operating than she’d like. But does she have the strength to confront the only man she’s ever loved and risk losing him to the other woman?

Just when Samaria thinks she’s got it all figured out, she finds herself drawn to Angelina’s kindness. Will she be able to carry out her plan after she finds herself yearning for the one thing she’s never had . . . the friendship of a woman?

You can purchase this novel and similar titles in our bookstore here.

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Go Red: Save a Heart Tonight with Rhonda McKnight

This month is Heart Health Month.  This week is also my birthday week. As I said earlier, I owe my longevity to you guys and also my cardiologist super team and the American Heart Association. Tonight is the last night to support heart health and get a read at the same time. Hop over to Rhonda McKnight(whose birthday is tomorrow) Heart Health Online Book Tour. 10% of book purchases today will goto the American Heart Association. Go Red. Get a Great Read.

Vertical Writing and Worship on LinkedIn

Happy Thursday! Today I will be sending out short posts through the Labor Day weekend for my Blackberry and smartphone users. It's easier when it's shorter right. Also I have so many things that I can't couple together. Anyway... if you don't have time to read, you can listen to this post by clicking the arrow below.

Author Rhonda McKnight explores my "vertical writing" concept at BWChristian Lit Blog.

Last month our writer’s group had a craft session on “Vertical Writing”. Dee Stewart, the facilitator defined vertical writing as “the process, whereby the author’s writing either moves the reader toward having a centered communication with God or keeps the reader centered.” I don’t know if vertical writing is an actual term or one she coined herself. I do know it was a powerful lesson; one that reminded many of us that in the midst of spinning our stories, not to forget the purpose God has called us to as writers of Christian fiction. - Rhonda McKnight

This summer I asked a question about work and worship on Linkedin and have received 28 responses so far(still open for your answers.)

Since my work is writing about Christian topics, I continually seek God to guide me as I write. I spend time in the morning in prayer for my work. I listen to praise music as I write. I pause and pray as I go through my workday, remembering that God is enthroned and He is the only place I can know truth. - author, Tricia Goyer

So this concept reaches far beyond just our writing, but worship as a way of life. I hope you stop by BWChristian Lit and share your stories with Rhonda. But before you go quick question: How do you incorporate worship in your life?

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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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Write-or-Die Chicks Unite: Claudia Burney & Rhonda McKnight

This month my Write-or-Die Chick, Author Rhonda McKnight is spotlighting my other Write-or-Die Chick, Claudia Mair Burney. So on Write-or-Die Chick Wednesday. I would like to repost a book review of Claudia's new young adult thriller, The Exorsistah via Rhonda's blog. You go, girls!!

Rhonda McKnight and Claudia Mair Burney

Onto the Review....

Welcome Janice, glad to be partnering with you.

This is what "Janice Said" about Exorsistah by Claudia Mair Burney:

Ms. Burney has introduced us to Emme, a young sister who has survived the perils of the foster care system only to step straight into the ominous world of demon possession and at the same time is ambushed by the precariousness of young loves first bite. Now Emme is used to seeing demons and knows that by using the Word of the Lord she can keep them off of her. But on her first day of freedom she meets a young, fine Blacktino brother who is not only kind but can also feel the demons she can see!

Visit www.rhondamcknight.net to see the rest of the review

Let me just say. I read the Exorsistah Claudia's earlier drafts of the novel and this book is such good fun. Check out the conclusion of the review and come back here because Claudia will be visiting CFB very soon to chat about this book.

If you want to be a part of Write-or-Die Chick Wednesday, hit me up and yes, you need a blog.