JoJo’s Transformation: A Free Prequel to Under the August Sky

Before John Johanssen ever set foot in Emerald Valley as the man readers meet in Under the August Sky, he was a shy, insecure young adult everyone had once called "Fat JoJo," and who was carrying four years of high school humiliation onto a college campus three...

Faith, Scars, and the Road Home: An Author Interview

What do you do when the people who were supposed to show you God were the ones who hurt you most? That's the question that beats at the heart of Heather Tekavec's debut historical fiction novel, Good Road to Follow, and that hearbeat is the reason readers will...

Bayou, Boots & Belief: Inside the Heart of Blue Jean Bayou

On the surface, Blue Jean Bayou by Janis Jakes is a slow-burn contemporary romance, but it doesn't take long to notice the richness behind the genre. It's a story about the wounds we carry from early loss, the identities we build to survive them, and the grace that...

Ice Maiden’s Meltdown

by Emily Grey For so much of our lives, we deal with death. The couple in this story must...

Angel of the L Train by Penelope Marzec

Welcome Penelope to the blog. How did you come up with your title? Initially, I titled the book...

A World Without Amazon? (The Demise of Publishing, part 1)

If the fate of that one chain—Family Christian—affects Christian publishing so drastically, what would a world without Amazon do to publishing at large? What would happen to reading, literacy—publishing—if there was no more Amazon? Or, more likely: What would the book world be with only Amazon? With their $5.25 billion in book sales constituting only 7% of Amazon’s total revenue, the behemoth mega-store isn’t likely to disappear from the landscape any time soon, but will the rest of us be part of the ripe rolling hills of publishing five years from now?