From the Heart: Would You Read On? hosted by Diana L. Flegal

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Would You Read On? hosted by Diana L. Flegal

Thank you for stopping by our blog today. Since we have no First Page for you today - we are happy to list the Christy Award winners announced this week at ICRS in Orlando. Congrats to all

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Wolfsbane

CONTEMPORARY SERIES

The Amish Midwife

CONTEMPORARY STANDALONE

Promises to Keep

FIRST NOVEL

Words

HISTORICAL

Wonderland Creek

HISTORICAL ROMANCE

The Maid of Fairbourne Hall

SUSPENSE

The Queen

VISIONARY

Veiled Rose

YOUNG ADULT

Waterfall

You can find out more about the books and authors from the official Christy Award press release. To find the list of other nominations and the replay of the ceremony’s live blog, visit the official Christy Awards site.

We also want to thank last weeks courageous author, Becky L. Miller.
You can find out more about Becky at her personal blog A Christian Worldview of Fiction - http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/and her editing blog, Rewrite, Reword, Rework - http://rewriterewordrework.wordpress.com/

3 comments:

Timothy Fish said...: Nice use of white space, but no, I don't think I would read on.; July 18, 2012 at 7:17 AM
Rebecca LuElla Miller said...: Good one, Timothy!

But I think I do want to read more, notably Anne Elisabeth Stengl's Veiled Rose. I'm reading her debut novel, which won a Christy last year in the First Novel category, and am enjoying it a great deal.

Thanks to all for last week's feedback. (Whoo-hoo! Diana thinks I'm courageous. :-D )

Becky; July 18, 2012 at 4:02 PM
sally said...: Courageous is a good thing for writers.

Yes, indeedy.

I'm disappointed to not find another first page to read. I've really enjoyed this blog feature. I feel like I was really learning each week about what works and what doesn't work. I hope other courageous people will send pages in.; July 18, 2012 at 9:37 PM

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