This is the second in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2023 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Leslie Anne Tarabella won first place in the nonfiction Web Presence category and describes her activities here. The 2024 marketing awards will open in November 2023. CAN members, please be thinking of how you can enter the awards. See the guidelines at https://christianauthorsnetwork.com/marketing-award/. Creating an Award-Winning Web Presence by Leslie Anne Tarabella Bringing Christmas Home is a true story about my husband’s grandmother who was born in New York City in 1916. Her father gave her the most…
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This is the first in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2023 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Grace Fox won first place in the nonfiction Visual Media category and describes her activities here. The 2024 marketing awards will open in November 2023. CAN members, please be thinking of how you can enter the awards. See the guidelines at https://christianauthorsnetwork.com/marketing-award/. Creating Award-Winning Media Visuals by Grace Fox – www.gracefox.com As a non-fiction writer, I seek to provide spiritual growth resources, so creating a variety of complementary products to Fresh Hope for Today: Devotions for Joy…
Book Review: Honor Thy Father (Episodes 1 & 2) by Ellen Fannon
Contemporary Christian Fiction: Honor Thy Father, Episodes One and Two Honor Thy Father is a two-part story of a family which is separated from each other through a series of tragic circumstances. The prologue takes place in 1989, the current time, and introduces the five main characters. Adam Wallace, the father of three children, Charlotte, Dana, and Scott, is suffering from a rare form of leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant to save his life. The prologue reveals that Adam has been separated from his daughters for twenty-five years and has not had any contact with them. But now he…
Book Review: Save the Date, by Ellen Fannon
Save the Date, by Ellen Fannon, is a humorous, contemporary novel, and won 3rd place in the 2022 Christian Indie Awards: What if you were given the chance to rekindle the flame with your first love? What happened to all those girls who were mean to you in school? Should Hannah Jensen take the chance of attending her high school reunion to find out? Hannah hasn’t been back to her hometown in twenty-five years. Now a widow raising a teenaged daughter, she has the opportunity to go home for her twenty-fifth high school reunion. The invitation to the reunion stirs up…
Book Review: And Then Blooms Love by Sally Jo Pitts
Christian Contemporary Romance: And Then Blooms Love Shocking news forces flower shop owner Emme Matthews and plantation manager Clifton Davenport to face not only their past, but the love they left behind. (First book in the Hamilton Harbor Legacy series.) * * * Book Review: I loved this story! If ever there was a tender romance that uses an unpredictable series of events to bring two former lovers back into each other’s lives, this is it! The beauty of God’s restoration in relationships is seen throughout the book. It offers plenty of well-paced tension as the hero’s wedding day approaches –…
Book Review: Don’t Bite the Doctor by Ellen Fannon
Don’t Bite the Doctor is contemporary, humorous Christian fiction. Real doctors treat more than one species. That’s what veterinarian, Jill Bennet believes. On any given day, she may doctor dogs, cats, bunnies, birds, horses, pigs, or any other furry/feathered patient who crosses her path—striving to deliver compassion and competence to all God’s creatures. Now, after forty years, Jill reflects back to when she was a new, young veterinarian, when women were just beginning to become a presence among the previously male-dominated profession. Out in the real world, Jill finds herself in situations never covered in veterinary school. It is a…
Book Review: The Dark Guest by Sarah Hamaker
The Dark Guest by Sarah Hamaker The Cold War is over, but The Wolf is still at the door. When Violet Lundy isn’t cleaning rooms at Happy Hills Assisted Living Facility, she loves spending her free time with resident Rainer Kopecek. Hearing his stories of the dangerous life he led behind the Iron Curtain in East Berlin makes her own life seem more tolerable. But when Rainer is found dead and his room in disarray, Violet suspects foul play. Dr. Henry Silverton lives among his books, teaching and writing about the Cold War. A letter about an East German traitor…
Book Review: Hope is Built by Davalynn Spencer
Inspirational Western Romance: Hope is Built It’s 1912 and Mary McCrae is running from a planned future. Rancher Hugh Hutton is hiding from a broken life. Each has what the other needs if they can keep more than their tempers from going up in flames. * * * Book Review: I fell in love with this story from page one. This has been my favorite so far in this series. Loved it from cover to cover. Wonderful author! ~ Carolyn Neinas on Goodreads * * * Davalynn Spencer is a bestselling author and winner of…
Book Review: Reflections on the Names of God: 180 Devotions to Know God More Fully
Every name God calls Himself and every name His people have called Him holds clues to who He is, how He relates to His children, and the promises He has made—and kept. This devotional offers you a wonderful opportunity to spend time each day getting to know God more intimately by exploring His names and attributes. Perfect for both new Christians and longtime believers, these life-changing devotions will help you discover something new about who God is, who you are, and how you relate to others. * * * Any book that helps me draw closer to the…
Book Review: How to Dress a Dinosaur
How to Dress a Dinosaur by Robin Currie is an engaging board book. Every parent knows the struggle of getting a child dressed and out the door. But with a cast of hilariously coiffed dinosaurs to teach toddlers how to stomp their feet into pant legs and reach their claws into shirts, getting dressed becomes a game. Your little dino lover will beg to join in the fun and get dressed like a dinosaur! Winner of the Purple Dragon and Firebird Awards. * * * Book review: “Such a fun book to read with any little one, and fans of dinosaurs…
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