Christian Fiction

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

What I’m Reading: Bowen & Queen Latifah

On my nightstand this week are:

Michelle Andrea Bowen’s More Church Folk to be reviewed for RT Book Review Magazine

and

Queen Latifah’s Put on Your Crown: Life Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom for Urban Reviews

Both books are under Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group)

I will let you know when both reviews are available or you can subscribe to my newsfeed to have it delivered in your email here.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

TPT: Erin Healy’s Never Let You Go #books

Good Tuesday are Trailer Park Tuesday feature is Erin Healy's Never Let You Go. I like this trailer. Enjoy!

Monday, May 24, 2010

The Next Top Writer

Will Christian Celebs Run Writers Out of the Publishing Industry?

Dee … Not knocking celeb authors. I’m a huge fan of Jamie Lee Curtis and Henry Winkler’s Hank Zipzer children’s books. I’m feeling Blair Underwood’s Tennyson Hardwick collab with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes. But when I read last week that Tyra Banks had a three-book- novel deal I began to wonder about Christian fiction. Yes, really!

If this keeps up, CeCe Winans or Kirk Cameron will be penning a novel. Oh, but wait Bishop Jakes and Joyce Meyers have/had novels. So perhaps I’m late on this debate. Don’t get me wrong. I’m just using Winans/Cameron as a hypothetical. I’m am a fan of them[Banks included.] Yet, I wonder how this will affect Christian publishing. Click here to read more.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Fun Friday: Happy 30th PacMan

Pacman

Online Games

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 offers a free online Pac-Man game to celebrate the games 30th anniversary.

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.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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:

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

Bookbyte: Kindle app for Android

Some Fun: GhostBusters at the NYP

Your source for trending topics in book publishing in 3 small bites. I ask you three questions, you can respond via your favorite social media service or blog use the hashtag #bookbyte so that we can respond and catalog your response. Here are the three newsmakers of the week with my question…

1. Is Your Bookshelf Your Phone?

If you could get digital books on the smartphone you already carry, would you still buy a dedicated e-reader? That's the question running through my mind after hearing that Amazon is developing a Kindle app for Android. The upcoming Kindle for Android app is set to hit smartphones this summer. (Source: Will Amazon's Kindle Android App Hurt Kindle Sales? by JR Raphael, PC World)

2. Louis Gossett, JR. Signs at New York Book Week

In conjunction with BEA, New York Book Week will house author programs at venues such as Times Talks, the 92nd Street Y, and the main branches of the New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library, as well as smaller events at other libraries in the NYPL system and chain and independent bookstores throughout New York City and its boroughs. Gossett will present An Actor and a Gentleman
Monday, May 24 at 7:30 PM at Barnes & Noble, 1972 Broadway @ 66th Street. Question: Don’t get me wrong I love Gossett, Jr. But what’s up with all these AA celebs becoming authors now? Hollywood shortfall? (Source: New York Book Week)

3. Barnes and Noble launches Self-Publishing Program

Barnes & Noble has announced that this summer it will launchPubIT!, a new DIY publishing option for independent publishers and self-publishing writers to distribute their works digitally through BN.com and the Barnes & Noble eBookstore. (Source: http://bit.ly/aLj80d)

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Trailer Park Tuesday: Who Speaks to Your Heart?

Happy Tuesday. Today’s Trailer Park Tuesday spotlight is Stacy Hawkins Adams Who Speaks To Your Heart (April, 2010.) With insight, inspiration, and practical ideas in her new book—Who Speaks to Your Heart?—, author Stacy Hawkins Adams shows you and all women—regardless of the labels placed on you—that your best and most important title is the one given by God … chosen vessel.

Stacy’s freelance articles have appeared in Heart & Soul and Gospel Today magazines, AARP’s Bulletin, USA Today and on Crosswalk.com.