NEW RELEASE: The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin

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The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin Publisher: Revell Release date: February 4th, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-0800727994 About the book: With his future stolen by his brothers’ betrayal, Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers, while Leah Jones works as a librarian at the army base, hoping to find her lost sisters. A marriage of convenience binds them, but will D-day—and a foreboding dream—tear them apart?   About the author:  Sarah Sundin is a bestselling author of World War II novels, including The Land Beneath Us, The Sky Above Us, and The Sea Before Us. Her novel The Sea Before…

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CAN Authors Have Much to Offer!

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Your CAN authors are award winning, prolific, and sharing what’s on their hearts! Check out this weeks’ round up of good news and happenings in our writing community. Davalynn Spencer’s 2017 Western romance, An Improper Proposal, won the 2018 Christian Indie Award for Romance. An Improper Proposal is Book 1 in the Front Range Brides series. Book 2, An Unexpected Redemption, released April 26. *** New Release: No Safe Place by H. L. Wegley Releases May 21 Genre: Romantic Suspense Publisher: Trinity Press International ISBN-13:   978-0-9964937-6-5 About the book: A young man returning from the far country trying to regain his honor, and a young woman with a heart broken by…

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Awards and Speaking Engagements

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Your CAN authors have good news to share as well as opportunities for readers to engage! Vindicating the Vixens: Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified, and Marginalized Women of the Bible has been named a finalist in the adult non-fiction religion category of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! The book is the brainchild of CAN member Dr. Sandra Glahn. INDIES recognize works by individual authors and independent publishing houses, including academic presses such as Stanford University.  More than 2,000 entries spread across 68 genres were submitted for consideration. The list of finalists was determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners are now being decided…

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Author Awesomeness!

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Davalynn Spencer will be speaking April 11 to the Canon City Public Library book club in Canon City, Colorado, on “Wrangling Words.” Her newest title, An Unexpected Redemption, is on pre-order for an April 27 release as Book 2 in the Front Range Brides collection.Various purchase options can be found at http://davalynnspencer.com/books/an-unexpected-redemption/.

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A Healing Heart is now in large print and audio!

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 A Healing Heart is now available in audiobook   and hard cover large print! A Healing Heart by Angela Breidenbach A workaholic woman must trust her business to the one man who tried to destroy it when she suffers a heart attack. Mara Keegan is an uber-successful mother and a widow of three years. She’s been chasing success and all the "good things in life" for her family to make up for the cruel whim God played on them by taking her husband. In an effort to be the perfect mom, she decides to make a photo memory quilt, a graduation…

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A Romance Rekindled by Kimberly Rose Johnson

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A Romance Rekindled The small-town CPA can’t forget how Blake jilted her and left without an explanation. But when her first love returns, the handsome writer evokes conflicting emotions. Kimberly Rose Johnson is a member of ACFW and RWA and writes for Heartsong Presents. Her current series takes place in Leavenworth, WA., A charming Bavarian themed Village.

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More About Marketing to Libraries

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Hi, everyone. I hope you all had a blessed Christmas and will enjoy a happy, healthy, productive and prosperous New Year. In September I wrote about marketing to libraries. I conducted an extensive campaign to public libraries over the summer months, marketing my books to more than 2,300 libraries. Since writing my September post I've begun to check back at the libraries I targeted to see the results. I'm about half way through my list, and so far I've found that libraries have purchased several hundred copies of my books since my campaign. And quite often I find that one or…

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Outlining the Novel #1: Finding the Theme

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  Hello from novelist Gail Gaymer Martin at www.gailmartin.com Recently I attended the Gideon Film Festival and Media Conference at Ridgecrest and learned many techniques for writing screenplays. These same points work for fiction as well, and I believe that many screenwriting techniques can enhance fiction. In the next five weeks, I will share these points with you. The first point was: Define the overall theme or meaning of your work. What will happen and why does it matter? Why? If your story does not make a difference, if it doesn’t matter, then why write it? How can it serve the reader?…

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