Captain’s Log, Stardate 10.01.2006 Leave any prayer requests in the comments and I’ll be praying this week. You don’t have to be Christian to leave a prayer request. If you’d rather not advertise to everyone on the blogosphere, just leave an unspoken prayer request or e-mail me. If I forgot your prayer request, e-mail me. Not to be mean or anything, but if you don't e-mail me or comment to update your prayer request, I'm only going to pray 3 Sundays. Lord, thank you for this chance to pray again. It’s been too long since I was able to do this. Lord, I pray for favor for Case with the sentencing judge. Please be glorified in all this somehow. Give the family everything they need. I pray for healing for Colleen’s mom and a quick recovery. Thank you that she seems okay now. I lift up Jaen and her family to you. Please provide for them and keep them safe in your arms. Give Gail and Bob all they need right now. Be glorified in everything. Comfort them and help them. Help Heather as ...

Captain's Log, Stardate 09.28.2006 Blog book giveaway: My Monday book giveaway is FURY by Bill Bright and Jack Cavanaugh . You can still enter. Just post a comment on that blog post. On Monday, I'll draw the winner and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Here are the ACFW Book of the Year winners! In Contemporary Novella Category: 1st place: "Strawberry Angel" by Pamela Griffin in One Christmas Angel , Barbour Publishing, Rebecca Germany, Editor 2nd place: Dear Baby Girl by Jane Orcutt , Tyndale, Jan Axford, Editor 3rd place: "Reunited" by Kristy Dykes in Wedded Bliss , Barbour Publishing, Rebecca Germany, Editor In General Fiction, which includes Sci-Fi and Young Adult: 1st place: Daughter of Prophecy by Miles Owens , Realms Fiction, Jeff Gerke, Editor There was a tie for 2nd place: Circles of Seven by Bryan Davis , AMG Publishers, Dan Penwell, Editor The Reveal by Sarah Anne Sumpolec , Moody Publishers, Andy McGuire, Editor In the ...

Captain’s Log, Stardate 09.27.2006 Blog book giveaway: My Monday book giveaway is FURY by Bill Bright and Jack Cavanaugh . You can still enter. Just post a comment on that blog post. On Monday, I'll draw the winner and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Not blogging today. Why? Cuz I’m plain lazy. And parents coming into town tomorrow, so I might be AWOL the rest of the week. TMI: Writing: Today I wrote another post about agents at my Story Sensei blog . I also posted a review (below) on Violet Dawn by Brandilyn Collins . Diet: I haven't exercised this week yet! I ate a salad for dinner...after I ate half a bag of potato chips. I need therapy.

Violet Dawn (Kanner Lake series, book 1) by Brandilyn Collins From the back cover: Something sinuous in the water brushed against Paige’s knee. She jerked her leg away. What was that? She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand. Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers. Hair? She yanked backward, but the tendrils clung. Something solid bumped her wrist. Paige gasped. With one frantic motion she shook her arm free, grabbed the side of the hot tub, and heaved herself out. Paige Williams slips into her hot tub in the blackness of night—and finds herself face to face with death. Alone, terrified, fleeing a dark past, Paige must make an unthinkable choice. In Violet Dawn , hurtling events and richly drawn characters collide in a breathless story of murder, the need to belong, and faith’s first glimmer. One woman’s secrets unleash an entire town’s pursuit, and the truth proves as elusive as the killer in their midst. Camy here: This is a strong suspense novel with...

Captain’s Log, Supplemental Blog book giveaway: My Monday book giveaway is FURY by Bill Bright and Jack Cavanaugh . You can still enter. Just post a comment on that blog post. On Monday, I'll draw the winner and post the title for another book I'm giving away. ACFW Genesis contest winners! First of all, a great big thank you to all the entrants to helped make the Genesis Contest's first year such a success. Second, mucho gracias to the judges who so graciously volunteered their time to judge. We all really appreciate it. Here are the winners and titles: In the Contemporary Romance Category: The 3rd place winner is…. Kristian Tolle, Flirting with Danger The 2nd place winner is… Kaye Dacus, Happy Endings, Inc. The contemporary romance category winner is Glynna Sirpless, A Reason to Dance In the Historical Romance category: The 3rd place winner is… Charlene Glatkowski, Halfway Home The 2nd place winner is… Andree Eisenberg, The Legend of Ruby Sanchez The Historical romance ...

Captain’s Log, Stardate 09.26.2006 Today I have a guest blog from author Jack Cavanaugh, whose novel with Bill Bright released this month. He also wrote  Fury , the next book in the Great Awakenings series set in 1825-1826: HE JUST WITNESSED A MURDER...AND NOW THE KILLER IS ON HIS TRAIL. BUT NO ONE WILL BELIEVE HIM! Daniel Cooper: the son of a famous preacher, he’s running from more than “religion.” Hannah Robbins: a spunky farmgirl and someone’s “intended”...but could she be what Daniel needs? Cyrus Gregg: an esteemed businessman, he’s after two things. And he’ll do anything to get them. Ever since his parents drowned while crossing the Atlantic after a revival, Daniel Cooper has felt as if the world is out to get him. For the past year he's had to live with his Uncle Asa and Aunt Camilla -- and all their rules. One night, deciding he's had enough, Daniel sneaks out his bedroom window and flees to the alley behind his employer's casket shop. What he sees there ...

Captain’s Log, Stardate 09.20.2006 Blog book giveaway: My Thursday book giveaway is SQUAT by Taylor Field . My Monday book giveaway is WISHING ON DANDELIONS by Mary DeMuth . You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Monday, I'll draw the winner for SQUAT and the winner for WISHING ON DANDELIONS and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Something That Lasts by James David Jordan . When Ted Balik rises from his pew to speak, no one in the crowded sanctuary of the O'Fallon Bible Church can imagine that their peaceful community will be shattered by his shocking disclosure: Reverend David Parst, beloved husband and father and pastor, committed the unthinkable crime. He had an affair with Mrs. Balik. As the church members explode into an uproar, Ted silently grabs a gun out of his pocket, raises it to his temple and pulls the trigger. These few moments of horror plunge the reverend, his wife and their twelve-year-old son i...