Here’s a list of the ACFW Carol Award Finalist. Congrats to all the editors and authors. This is the first year for the Carol Award, named for pioneering Bethany House fiction editor, Carol Johnson. Johnson saw the possibility for Christian based stories when she read a charming manuscript written by Janette Oke. That was in the early ’80s. The Carol …
Real thank you speech
Caught in a swirl of busyness between teaching a continuing ed class at ACFW and leading worship, I didn’t think much about the Book of the Year Award. Probably, a bit of that on purpose so I wouldn’t focus on winning or losing. Saturday night, I wasn’t prepared to hear my name and book called. I’d not prepared a speech, …
Sweet Caroline wins!
How’s that for a heading. . . Sweet Caroline won Best Lit in the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Book of the Year. Very thrilled to have won! What an honor. I wasn’t prepared to win so I didn’t have any cute stories, and I forgot to thank Christine Lynxwiler and Susan May Warren who saved my bacon four days before …