Next in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2026 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Gretchen Huesmann won 2nd place in the Nonfiction Broadcast Media category. Entries for the 2027 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards will be accepted through Dec. 1, 2026. CAN members, be thinking of how you can enter! See the guidelines at https://christianauthorsnetwork.com/marketing-award/ Tame the Marketing Monster By Gretchen Huesmann Marketing—just typing the word produces shivers in me. Sure, I’ve met one or two people who love the concept, but I believe most share my aversion to promoting and selling. Yet, we authors…
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2026 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: 1st Place in Nonfiction Physical Media Category
Next in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2026 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Amy Joob won first place in the nonfiction Physical Media category. Entries for the 2027 Excellence in Marketing Awards will be accepted through December 1, 2026. CAN members, be thinking of how you can enter! See the guidelines at https://christianauthorsnetwork.com/marketing-award/ Using Physical Mediaby Amy Joob Congratulations on winning first place in Nonfiction Physical Media, Amy! What book were you marketing? Arise from Grief & Flourish Again, a Christian living Prescriptive Memoir by Amy Joob. What was the goal of your marketing…
CAN Excellence in Marketing Award 1st Place Winner: David Hollenstein!
2026 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards: First Place in Fiction Broadcast Media Next in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2026 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. David Hollenstein won first place in the fiction Broadcast Media category and describes his activities here. Can Product Placement Work for Books? Award-Winning Campaign Says Yes I don’t have a platform or email list in the U.S. So, how can I market my book? I quickly realized I should focus on what I’m good at. For me, that’s writing radio plays. I took an unconventional approach by…
CAN Excellence in Marketing Award 2nd Place Winner: Gina Romero!
2026 CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards:2nd Place in Nonfiction Online Presence Category First in a series of posts featuring the winners of the 2026 Christian Authors Network (CAN) Excellence in Marketing Awards. Gina Romero won 2nd place in the Nonfiction Online Presence category for her book, Welcome Home: A Guide to Homemaking, From the Heart. Building a Thriving Online Presence Through Authentic Connection By Gina Romero, MA, ASBC When I began sharing online, my goal wasn’t simply to sell books. My desire was to encourage women in their homes, marriages, motherhood journeys, and faith. As the author of Welcome Home: A Guide…
Book Review: Bathrobe Pool Club: Tales from the Deep End by Wendy Spooner
TWELVE silver-haired beauties, ONE neighborhood pool. With a splash of laughter and the warmth of friendship, these intertwined histories present the depth of camaraderie amid the celebration of life’s beautiful chaos. From hilarious misadventures to poignant moments of wisdom, you’ll experience the profound resilience unique to women in this uplifting collection that reminds us that everyone has a tale to tell.
Book Review: Flourish: Grace-Centered Practices to Protect and Grow a Fruitful Life in Christ by Ava Pennington
Title: Flourish: Grace-Centered Practices to Protect and grow a Fruitful Life in Christ Genre: Nonfiction: Christian Living Description of Flourish: If the fruit of the Spirit is promised to every Christian, then why do so many believers wish they were filled with more love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control? Where is the disconnect? Why is there a disconnect? What are we missing? These questions inspired me to explore the fruit of the Spirit more deeply. What I learned became the basis for Flourish: Grace-Centered Practices to Protect and Grow a Fruitful Life in Christ. Nurturing the…
Fascinating Friday Feature – Did You Know?
by Linore Rose Burkard When I studied English Literature at the City University of New York, the professors never included writings by famous British authors that paid homage to Christmas or Christ. Authors like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (Even Wordsworth, you ask? Yes, though not overtly.1) When researching my book, Regency House Christmas: A Remarkably Regency Yuletide,2 I was pleasantly surprised to find material from these writers of my favorite historical era that revealed a faith my college professors avoided. I included brief snippets from Coleridge’s “A Christmas Carol,” Wordsworth’s “The River…
Fascinating Friday Feature – Learn, Persist and Have Faith
by Dave Pratt Over the past few weeks, the first book in my Christian Suspense series, The Home Team, received numerous positive book reviews. That experience has left me both pleased and humbled and caused me to reflect on how someone like me, with several well-reviewed novels in print, who started the journey as a newly commissioned second lieutenant in the Army, braced by a senior officer in a hallway who growled, “Pratt, you can’t speak and you can’t write. Fix it, or you’ll fail.” More than a little shook by the experience, I signed up for the first correspondence…
Book Review: The Home Team by Dave Pratt
The Home Team: Book 1 by Dave Pratt Genre: Christian Mystery & Suspense Description of The Home Team: Book 1 Sam Anthem has always been a team player, leading his Home Team on secret missions around the world and chasing down bad guys for the U.S. government. But Sam has never had a place to call home or someone to go home to. Consuelo Zamora has been serving as a missionary nurse, but her work has led her to be forced to work with some South American drug lords in order to provide medicine for the common people. After being…
Fascinating Friday Feature – One Fruit of the Spirit
by Ava Pennington Did you know there is only one fruit of the Spirit? Have you ever wondered why you didn’t have more of the nine fruits of the Spirit the apostle Paul listed in Galatians 5:22-23? That list includes love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. But what if I told you there is only one fruit of the Spirit? That’s right, just one, not nine! God describes several of His attributes as fruit that He develops in us. They are not separate fruits (plural). Rather, each one is a display or facet of the fruit…
