ACFW Book Club

American Christian Fiction Writers has launched its own book club with a launch on January 2006. The four books selected for the book club are:

 

• Black Sands by Colleen Coble
• Leave it to Claire by Tracey Bateman
• Outriders by Kathryn Mackel.
• *Pink by Marilynn Griffith

*Christian Fiction Blog will be reviewing this selection for January.

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Prime Time Daniel

An Episcopalian minister(Aidann Quinn) and father finds himself going to his best friend, Jesus,  to helps him overcrome family challenges(gay son, drug dealing daughter for short,) church politics and his co-dependence of Vicadin, prescription painkillers. But here's the catch... Maybe Jesus is a figment of his drug induced imagination.

 

I'm a big fan of Aidann Quinn, so I will watch and pray that the show delivers. Premier date January 6, 2006.

 

There is a bit of controversy behind the show already. Belief.net setup a great poll that I would like to ask here. What is a good, Good Christian television show?

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Landon's Libro-land

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Conflicted with the Harry Potter series' magic references, but want your child to love to read and also learn about his place in Christ's world? R.K. Mortenson's Landon Snow may be your best bet. It's reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland and Disney's Beauty and the Beast, because of talking inanimate objects. Chock full or riddles and clues that your child will have to ponder over to solve( a good thing) like Dora the Explorer interactive. And what I liked most is that Landon's voice was clever and smart for his young age, which is quite true. My five-year-old talks on the phone with her five-year-old best friend, Tora, and their conversation is what I did when I was a tweenager. They are so ahead of us with diction.

 

As a book artist, I adored the uniqueness of the design of the book. It is small for a child to keep in his backpack or to carry in their hand. The paper that the story is printed on reminds me of the Strathmore paper I use to draw portraits on. Its a great texture and the cover art is incredibly beautiful like a Byzantine era  illuminated Gospel Book.

The Nativity, Master of Gerona, late 1200s
 

 

The design and the story creates what young people of that age are searching--the meaning of life and death, mystery, fantasy, direction and God.

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Even Now

Even Now by Karen Kingsbury

 

Lifeway Synopsis:

Shane wonders about the love that hasn't faded with time. Lauren gave up on happily-ever-after when it was ripped away. Emily is a college freshman who discovers a love story that ended with her birth. This Christian novel is a tapestry of lost love, faith and the miracle of resurrection.

Lifeway : $11.99

 

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Michael Nelson & Digital Library Devices

The Death of Traditional Book Publishing

by Michael Nelson, President & CEO of Thomas Nelson

I had to bring this discussion to your attention, irregardless of my sleep deprived self. Michael Nelson is thinking outside the box of book publishing and into a more digital handheld library device. Been devouring this month's Fast Company, which parallels to Nelson discussion except they are talking about how e-commerce and downloading is changing Hollywood. Book publishing must follow.So I would like to know from you...if there was a digital device to store our favorite books what would it look like?

Dee

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Don't Forget to Breathe...

This week I will be cutting back on blogging to complete countless book reviews, help out at Selah's school, work on my Girl Scout troops community service project and work on my own writing for a change. And...to  follow doctor's orders to cut back and take my two rest breaks a day like I'm prescribed. We'll talk about that later. Now onto Bonnie...

 

Dee 

 

Hello Christian Fiction visitors. My name is Bonnie Calhoun. Dee invited me over here as a guest blogger.

 

First and foremost I was raised in a Christian household, but eight years ago I became 'born again' and started a real relationship with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Secondly, I am a writer, unpublished as of yet, but with one completed action-adventure novel and two more in progress. I love to talk, but since the internet is not mainly a verbal medium that helped me to title my blog succinctly as Bonnie Writes.

 

 

   "Don't forget to breathe..."

 

I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite Christian fiction authors.

Her name is Brandilyn Collins.  She is a best-selling author of Crime thrillers, writing for Zondervan, the Christian division of HarperCollins Publishers.

 

Well, you ask, how can I call her a best selling author? I'm glad you asked that. Right now all of her suspense novels are in reprint. That is a feat that all writers aspire to achieve. Stain of Guilt and Dead of Night the second and third in Brandilyn's Hidden Faces series are in their second printing. Brink of Death the first in the Hidden Faces series is in its fourth printing and Eyes of Elisha first in the Chelsea Adams series is in the sixth printing.

 

Brandilyn has a new book called Web of Lies , that will start hitting the book stores in the end of January. I got an ARC (advanced reading copy), let me tell you that it is FABULOUS.  Two of my favorite characters from different series are pitted against the bad guy for a spine tingling, roller coaster ride, that is synonymous with her "Seatbelt Suspense" tagline—"Don't forget to breathe..."

 

Brandilyn also hosts a blog called Forensics and Faith , where she teaches the craft of writing and answers questions. Drop by and check out her archives. There's a treasure trove of sound advice for budding writers.

 

Also visit her website, there's a button to click to lead you to free stuff. She will send you hand autographed book plates for her seven suspense novels, and you can also get a book mark for the Hidden Faces series.

 

If you love thrillers, you'll love Brandilyn Collins and when you read her books..."Don't forget to breathe..."

Listing Solomon Long

EUGENE, OREGON – December 12, 2005 – Two Harvest House authors not only made it onto Santa’s “nice” list, they ended up on another – Booklist’s Top Ten Christian Novels of the Year.

A Window to the World by Susan Meissner and Forgiving Solomon Long by Chris Well, both made the Top Ten Christian Novels list from Booklist magazine, published by the American Library Association.  The list was selected from all Christian novels released between October 2004 and October 2005.

“It's certainly a shocking and wonderful piece of news,” he[Well] says. “This year as a first–time novelist has already been such a whirlwind — but to be included by Booklist among such distinguished names as Philip Gulley and Melody Carlson and W. Dale Cramer is a greater honor than I could ever have expected.”

Congrats, Chris!

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