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Today's Wild Card author is:

Jennifer Valent

and the book:

Cottonwood Whispers

Tyndale House Publishers (August 17, 2009)

Jessilyn Lassiter and her best friend Gemma Teague have survived prejudice and heartache in their life-long friendship, but the summer of 1936 threatens to tear them apart yet again. Gemma's job with the wealthy Hadley family leads to a crush on their youngest son.

But Jessilyn's insistence that he's no good and that no rich white man would ever truly fall for a poor black gir...

Terri Blackstock's new book Intervention was inspired by her personal experiences with her daughter's addictions. Six years ago she became aware that her daughter (then in her early twenties) had a severe prescription pill addiction that was killing her, and she hired an interventionist to convince her daughter to go to treatment. After a grueling few hours, her daughter agreed to go. As Terri put her on the plane with the interventionist, she was hit with the crushing feeling that her...

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Dawn's Prelude
(Bethany House - October 2009)
by
Tracie Peterson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tracie Peterson is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than 70 novels. She teaches writing workshops at a variety of conferences on subjects such as inspirational romance and historical research.

Ephesians 1:18 has become a cornerstone verse for a new non-fiction book she's been working on -- its also become a cornerstone in her life. The verse rea...

Captain's Log, Stardate 09.17.2009

The 15 Seekers from my Seekerville blog got together for wine and burgers (great combination, eh?) last night! Check out Seekerville for pics!

Today's Wild Card author is:

Ginger Garrett

and the book:

In the Arms of Immortals: A Novel of Darkness and Light (Chronicles Of The Scribe)

David C. Cook (2009)

In another heart-stopping historical fiction thriller from the author of In the Shadow of the Lions, critically acclaimed author Ginger Garrett paints a captivating portrait of a time when terror ruled and faith was hard to come by. In the Arms of Immortals travels a richly imagined journey into a key moment of history…the arrival of t...

Captain's Log, Stardate 09.16.2009

If you don't belong to my newsletter YahooGroup, why??? (just kidding...no, not really. Why not?)

I just sent out my September update, with a brand new newsletter-only contest. My wonderful mom has donated a fantastic hand-made stocking for this month's contest, but you can only enter to win if you belong to my newsletter. (And read the instructions in my newsletter about how to enter.)

Click here to read my September newsletter

And did I mention that the title ...

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Tidings of Great Boys
FaithWords (September 8, 2009)
by
Shelley Adina

Camy here: I'll be giving this book away on November 2nd (not on this blog post)! Stay tuned!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Award-winning author Shelley Adina wrote her first teen novel when she was 13. It was rejected by the literary publisher to whom she sent it, but he did say she knew how to tell a story. That was enough to keep her going through the rest of her adolescence, a c...

Captain's Log, Stardate 09.15.2009

I'm over at the Girls, God, and the Good Life blog!

Camy here, with a few questions for you guys, especially if you are under the age of 18.

1) Do you like ebooks?

2) How often do you buy ebooks or borrow them from the library (if your library has that function)?

3) What do you read ebooks on, your computer? PDA? iPod Touch? Kindle or Sony eReader or something else?

Click here to weigh in with your ebook likes and dislikes!

Captain's Log, Stardate 09.14.2009


Please also leave an email address or website where I can conta...

Captain's Log, Supplemental

My lameness is really showing today, because I've only just discovered all the neat things I can do on my Facebook fan page, like a discussion board (Camy: "I have a discussion board? And people posted and I didn't even know it???"), updates I can send to all my fans (Camy: "I sent an update before! How did I do that?"), and status thingymajiggers (I really don't know what else to call it...it's late, cut me some slack.)

I also put the widget on the sidebar to the ri...