SUNDAY EDITION

Coming Up This Week

Monday

Narelle Atkins: Interview, Book Review and Book Giveaway - Jewel of Persia by Roseanna M. White

Tuesday

Lisa Harris: Analyze This - Writing Tips

Wednesday

Grace Bridges: International Views of Americanisms

Thursday

Grace Bridges: American Views of Internationalisms

Friday Devotion

Kathi Macias: Resting and Working

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Contest Giveaway Winners

Chris S is the winner of Davey & Marie Jank's book, Our Witchdoctors are too Weak (Valerie's post, May 19)

Congratulations Chris!

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News

Marcia Lee Laycock's new devotional e-book for writers, Abundant Rain, is now available to download at Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/58017

Abundant Rain is a collection of devotionals written over the past few years for Novel Journey www.noveljourney.blogspot.com

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Contest News

Lisa Harris' book, Blood Ransom, is a 2011 Christy Award nominee in the Contemporary Romance category - congrats Lisa!

Harry Kraus' book, The Six-Liter Club, is a finalist in the Faith, Hope & Love Inspirational Chapter of RWA's 2011 Inspirational Readers Choice Award in the Long Contemporary category - congrats Harry!

Kathi Macias' book, Red Ink, is a finalist in the Advanced Writers & Speakers Association's 2011 Golden Scroll Book of the Year Award in the fiction category - congrats Kathi!

Jeanette Windle's book, Freedom's Stand, is a finalist in the Advanced Writers & Speakers Association's 2011 Golden Scroll Book of the Year Award in the fiction category - congrats Jeanette!

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New Book Releases

Mary Hawkins' contemporary set in Australia, Justice at Baragula, Book Three in the Baragula series, is a May 2011 release from Ark House Press.

Christine Lindsay's historical set in India circa 1919, Shadowed in Silk, is a May 2011 release in e-book format and a September 2011 release in print format from Whitefire Publishing.

Jeanette Windle's contemporary set in Afghanistan, Freedom's Stand, the sequel to Veiled Freedom, is a May 2011 release from Tyndale.

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Upcoming Book Releases

Jo-Anne Berthelsen's book, Helena's Legacy, will be a June 2011 release from Ark House Press.

Nick Daniels' thriller set in the Middle East, The Jihad's Messiah, Book 1 in the Jihad series, will be a September 2011 release from Risen Books.

Rita Galieh's book, Signed, Sealed and Delivered, will be a September 2011 release from Ark House Press.

Kathi Macias has a Freedom series involving human trafficking coming soon from New Hope Publishers. Deliver Me from Evil (September 2011) is set in San Diego, CA. and the Golden Triangle area of Thailand; Special Delivery (January 2012); The Deliverer (April 2012).

Kathi Macias' Christmas themed book, A Christmas Journey Home, set in Arizona and Ensenada, Mexico, will be an October 2011 release from New Hope Publishers.

To find more International Christian Fiction books, please visit our Recent Releases page, Backlist Titles page and our International Christian Fiction wiki.