New Interviews with Richard Abanes

Two new interviews with Richard Abanes (A New Earth, an Old Deception) to listen to:

• Issues, Etc. (scroll down to July 28)
• Along the Way with Kim Ketola

New reviews at TitleTrakk

Two recent reviews on TitleTrakk—My Heart Remembers by Kim Vogel Sawyer, and Deep in the Heart of Trouble by Deeanne Gist, both reviewed by Vickie McDonough.

Award Winners

With ICRS comes award season, and we've got a few award winners to announce! We had three books win Christy Awards, one got a Christian Book Award, and one got a Retailer's Choice Award!

First off, the Christys:

• A Proper Pursuit, Lynn Austin (Historical)
• Remembered, Tamera Alexander (Romance)
• The Cure, Athol Dickson (Suspense)

In Search of Eden by Linda Nichols, won the Christian Book Award for Fiction. Also, The Parting by Beverly Lewis, won the Retailer's Choice Award for General Fiction. Congratulations to all winners and nominees!

Interview with Richard Abanes

There's a four-part interview with Richard Abanes about Eckhart Tolle and A New Earth running this week on The A-Team Blog. The interview begins here and will continue through Thursday.

Upcoming Novels at LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Three upcoming BHP novels are being offered to members of LibraryThing through the Early Reviewers program. If you're interested in an early look at A Constant Heart, Home Another Way, or Rain Song, all due out in October, sign up with LibraryThing and request the books. They match the books up with readers of similar novels and encourage them to review the books to start some early buzz. It's a neat program with lots of great looking books offered, so check it out if you're interested.

Some Recent Interviews

A handful of recent interviews with Bethany House authors:

On air - Richard Abanes (A New Earth, An Old Deception) and Ellie Kay (Heroes at Home) on Chris Fabry Live!, Ellie Kay on Point of View (6/30).

Online - Tamera Alexander (From a Distance) at Edgewise (Susan Meissner's blog).

New Month, New Books!

It's the first, so our July releases are available in stores everywhere. We've got a set of contemporary novels with a healthy dose of suspense, including the conclusion to Robin Parrish's Dominion Trilogy. On the nonfiction side, we've got a timely response to the bestselling A New Earth and a great application of the Lord's Prayer. Here's the list:

• Fiction
  • The Edge of Recall by Kristen Heitzmann
  • Wind River by Tom Morrisey
  • All Through the Night by Davis Bunn
  • Merciless (Dominion Trilogy #3) by Robin Parrish
• Nonfiction
  • A New Earth, An Old Deception by Richard Abanes
  • Living the Lord's Prayer by David Timms

Christian Fiction Online Magazine

The new Christian Fiction Online Magazine launched today and is pretty nice looking. Our own Nancy Moser is one of the regular columnists, writing a monthly devotional. Future issues will spotlight more BHP authors, and of course anything that helps spread the word about great Christian Fiction is worth a read!