Book Reviews (Page 19)

—————- Now playing: Mike Curb Congregation, The – Sweet Hour Of Prayer via FoxyTunes    ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rachel Hauck has multiple titles to her name. Her current release, Viva NashVegas is the second in a series which began with Lost in NashVegas. She is also a Blogger and a CFBA member! She lives in Florida with her husband. ABOUT THE BOOK: Aubrey James ruled the charts as the queen of country for over a decade. She’d rocketed to fame in the shadow of her parents’ death-both of them pioneers in Gospel music. But while her public life, high profile romances, and fights with Music RowRead More →

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing The Spirit of Sweetgrass from Integrity/Thomas Nelson (March 6, 2007)by Nicole Seitz See my review below theirs. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: NICOLE SEITZ is a South Carolina Lowcountry native and freelance writer/illustrator published in South Carolina Magazine, Charleston Magazine, House Calls, The Island Packet and The Bluffton Packet. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism, she also has a bachelor’s degree in illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. Nicole is an exhibiting artist in the Charleston, South Carolina area where she owns a web design firm and livesRead More →

This month, the CSFF Blog is touring the online version of the magazine, The Sword Review. I haven’t been able to plumb this as deeply as I’d like, so I can’t vouch for the contents, but at the price of free, it’s probably worth taking a look at if you’re a fan. For poets especially, it’s worth taking a look, as this appears to be a paying market, and there aren’t many of those for any kind of poetry, let alone speculative. As to the contents, as I said, I haven’t verified this, but the standards laid out in their writer’s guidelines are very promising.Read More →

ORCHARD OF HOPE (Revell March 1, 2007) by Ann Gabhart ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ann H. Gabhart has published a number of adult and young adult novels with several different publishers. The author of The Scent of Lilacs, Ann and her husband live a mile from where she was born in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. She is active in her country church, and her husband sings bass in a southern gospel quartet. ABOUT THE BOOK: In the summer of 1964, drought has gripped the quiet Kentucky town of Hollyhill, and Jocie Brooke is nervous about starting high school. Her sister Tabitha is experiencing the wearinessRead More →

Forget the “if you have children” part of the CFBA’s advice on Amy Wallace‘s first book of the Defenders of Hope Series, RANSOMED DREAMS, if you’re happily married, ” it will hit you like a stab in the gut and wrench you with a twist of the knife.” For that matter, if you’ve ever been unhappily married, I suspect the book may have the same effect, but for very different reasons, as I’ll mention more of later. They’re also right about the book covering depressing territory, Wallace has put on paper more than just her own worst fears, she’s captured mine, and many other’s asRead More →