 Nonfiction/memoir: Now I See: How God’s Amazing Grace Transforms the Deepest Pain to Shining Joy God’s Word shines with hope through Janet’s story. Blind at 30, the murder of her child, and her husband’s abandonment were no match for God’s restoring power that ushered joy inside beautiful victories. * * * “Now I See will transform how you navigate through life’s trials, unthinkable tragedies or unexpected adversities.” ~ Jason Noble, original true-life pastor, Twentieth Century Fox movie, Breakthrough and on the marketing team for Jesus Revolution. * * * Blindness nor tragedy has stopped Janet Perez Eckles from becoming an…
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This is our archive page2023 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: First Place in Fiction Broadcast Media
Next in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2023 Christian Authors Network (CAN)Â Excellence in Marketing Awards. Judy DuCharme won first place in the fiction Broadcast 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 Outstanding Broadcast Media by Judy DuCharme When my children started school, I went back to school to obtain my teaching certificate. I then taught fifth grade for 22 years and loved it. As I neared retirement, I felt…
2023 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: Second Place in Fiction Web Presence
Next in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2023 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Lee Ann Mancini won second place in the fiction 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 Lee Ann Mancini Digital marketing is an integral, crucial tool for the successful growth and development of business today. With society’s intensifying reliance on technology for everything from ordering dinner via Uber…
2023 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: First Place in Fiction Web Presence category
Next in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2023 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Allen Brokken won first place in the fiction Web Presence category. 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/ Interview with Allen Brokken Hi, Allen. What book(s) were you marketing to win this Excellence in Marketing award? The Towers of Light Series. It’s a Middle-Grade Christian Fantasy series. What was the goal of your marketing campaign? The goal of the Christmas 2022 marketing…
2023 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: Second Place in Broadcast Media
Next in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2023 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Michelle S. Lazurek won second place in the nonfiction Broadcast Media category. 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/ Using Broadcast Mediaby Michelle S. Lazurek Congratulations on winning second place in Outstanding Broadcast Media, Michelle!What book were you marketing?I Surrender All (Sort Of), a Christian living book by Michelle S. Lazurek What was the goal of your marketing campaign?I have known,…
2023 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: First Place in Nonfiction Web Presence
This is the second in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2023 Christian Authors Network (CAN)Â 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…
2023 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: First Place in Nonfiction Visual Media
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 –…
