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This month, one of the book tours I regular decided to review an organization instead: the Lost Genre Guild. The LGG is a group of science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers, most of whom are Christian and most of whom write stuff that glorifies the Lord, that banded together to market and promote the genres that rarely show up on the shelves at Christian bookstores, unless of course your name is Ted Dekker or Frank Peretti.  The spiffy term the guild uses, besides the Lost Genre, is Biblical Speculative Fiction. Since it’s not linked to the top level of the domain, the LGG’s site also hasRead More →

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 This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing One Perfect Day FaithWords (October 22, 2008) by Lauraine Snelling. Note I’ve also updated my post on One Holy Night. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Today, Lauraine Snelling is a member of the more than Two Million Books In Print club, but when she first began, she was a mother of three teenagers with a simple dream to write “horse books for kids.” All told, she has over 50 books published. Lauraine’s work has been translated into Norwegian, Danish and German as well as produced as books on tape. Awards have followed her dedication to “telling a goodRead More →

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The jacket description for Forsaken, a suspense novel by James David Jordan, tells us: When Simon Mason, the world’s best-known televangelist, receives threats from Muslim terrorists, he hires Taylor Pasbury, a former Secret Service agent, to take charge of his security. When the terrorists strike, making a demand of the pastor that would shake the most steadfast saint, Taylor draws on all of her training to save Simon’s daughter. Along the way, she discovers that she is not the only one who has done things she would like to forget—and she is not the only one who understands that some things are more important thanRead More →

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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing One Holy Night from Sheaf House (April 1, 2008) by J. M. Hochstetler ABOUT THE AUTHOR: J. M. Hochstetler writes stories that always involve some element of the past and of finding home. Born in central Indiana, the daughter of Mennonite farmers, she graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Germanic languages. She was an editor with Abingdon Press for twelve years and has published three novels. One Holy Night, a contemporary miracle story for all seasons, released in April 2008. Daughter of Liberty (2004) and Native Son (2005), books 1 and 2 of theRead More →

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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Dangerous Heart Avon Inspire (October 14, 2008) by Tracey Bateman ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tracey Bateman published her first novel in 2000 and has sold over 30 books in six years. There are two other books in the Westward Hearts Series, Defiant Heart (#1) and Distant Heart (#2) She became a member of American Christian Fiction Writers in the early months of its inception in 2000 and served as president for a year. She has been married to her husband Rusty for 18 years, has four kids, and lives in Lebanon, Missouri.ABOUT THE BOOK For the pastRead More →