Weekend Edition

The third weekend of November and we're more than half way through NaNoWriMo.
How's your page count stacking up?


This just in...The Holt Medallion Contest is now accepting READER JUDGES.
Click here for more information.

We Have Winners

Contact Seekerville through our new web email if you are a winner and if needed, provide your snail mail address. Please note our giveaway rules here. All prizes are distributed within 6-8 weeks of winner announcements. Send us a note if we dropped the ball.


The final results of the Seekerville Query Letter Contest are in and we're thrilled to announce that Melissa Endlich, Senior Editor for Love Inspired Books has requested a FULL MANUSCRIPT from each finalist.


Huge congratulations to finalists Elizabeth Bysiek, Clari Dees, Virginia Munoz, Melissa Norris, and Dianna Shuford!


Thank you so much to the twenty-five entrants who jumped into this contest. We're proud of all of you for having the courage to try and the success of these contests means that we'll be glad to do more impromptu contests in the future. So be ready!

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Weekend Edition winner of Glynna Kaye's RT Reviewer's Choice Nominated release, At Home in His Heart is Mary Cline.


Winner of the ebook, Hot Cocoa for the Heart, the anthology featuring Friend of Seekerville, Walt Mussell is Debra Marvin.


Seven friends of Seekerville admitted they entered the Golden Heart. The winner of our Seekerville reimbursement of their Golden Heart entry fee is Mary Ann Diorio. Congratulations! No guts, no glory. No risk, no reward. We're proud of all of you who entered.



Monday Janet Dean chatted about "Getting to the Dark Side" and the winner of Janet's January release from Love Inspired Historical, An Inconvenient Match is Amanda Barratt.




Our guest Tuesday was Eva Marie Everson who shared why “It’s a Southern Thang (Y’all Wouldn’t Unda-stand)” and the winner of Chasing Sunsets is Joy!




Kathie Hightower and Holly Scherer were our guests on Wednesday. They shared how they went from self-publishing to print on demand to small publisher to large Publisher....Lessons learned along the way. Congratulations to Kirsten Arnold who won Help! I'm a Military Spouse, Patti Jo Moore who won Jump Into Life Workbook, and Jeanne T who won 1001 Things to Love About Military Life.




Love Inspired author Audra Harders was your hostess Thursday with "Would He Really Do That?" and other ways to figure out if your characters are acting, well, in character. Winner of Believable Characters: Creating With Enneagrams by Laurie Schnebly is Melissa Jagears.




Harlequin Mills & Boon author Kate Walker stopped by to chat on Friday. Winner of Kate Walker's 12-Point Guide to Writing Romance is Jenna V.


Next Week In Seekerville


Monday: Join Abingdon Press and Barbour author Jennifer Hudson Taylor as she talks about The Journey from Book 1 to Book 2. She'll be generously giving away a copy of her new release from Abingdon Press, Highland Sanctuary.



Tuesday: Today come learn about a little known aspect of our publishing world--that of a freelance copy editor and proof reader. On Tuesday Sandra will interview Margaret Birth. Margaret Birth is a Christian writer who has been widely published in short fiction, short nonfiction, and poetry, both in the U.S. and abroad; in addition to working as a freelance writer, she's spent over a decade freelancing for multiple publishers as a manuscript reader, proofreader, and copy editor.



Wednesday: Join us for Pre-Thanksgiving fun when Love Inspired author Glynna Kaye gives us insight into "Your Characters---Close-up". She’ll be giving away her latest release At Home In His Heart and a decorative 2012 calendar.



Thursday: Seekerville is closed today. Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours.



Friday: Today we offer an alternative to shopping madness when Lena Nelson Dooley visits to talk about settings. Stop by and comment to have your name tucked into a drawing for one of three books!




Seeker Sightings


Holiday Opportunity at the Yankee-Belle Cafe. Belle and the Yank love sharing the kitchen at Yankee-Belle! If you'd like to share your recipes and holiday thoughts by guest-blogging at the Cafe, give them a shout at yankeebellecafe (@) gmail (dot) com and they'll hook you up with a day, an audience and a whole lotta holiday fun!







On Saturday, November 19, Audra Harders will join authors Amanda Cabot, Candee Fick, Karin Kaufmann for a round table author Q and A at the Barnes & Noble located in Loveland, CO. The event is hosted by Front Range Christian Fiction Writers and will run from 10:00 - noon. If you're in the neighborhood, drop on by. We'd love to have you join the fun!










November 21-25, 2011, join Julie Lessman at Casey Herringshaw's Blogaversary Celebration where TWO commenters will have a chance to win their choice of one of Julie's signed books OR a writer's critique PLUS a copy of the "A Kiss is NOT Just a Kiss" handout from the ACFW workshop Ruth Axtell Morren and Julie taught this year. So check it out here.







Random News and Information

• Behind a Bestseller: A Look Into the Inner Workings of the Inheritance Cycle (PW)

• Six Figure Indie Publishing with Robin Sullivan (The Creative Penn)

• Download the Free Writing Cheatsheet: NaNoWriMo Tip #12 (GalleyCat)

• Should You Use a Non-AAR Literary Agent (& What Does That Mean)?(Questions and Quandaries)

• Literary Agents: Soon to be Obsolete? (Wendy Lawton, Books & Such Literary Agency Blog)

• No Response = No Debate (Adventure in Agentland)

Attention all Seekerville authors and readers and friends!

You're Invited to Post on the Harlequin Thanksgiving Wall

Let's show our gratitude

If you have been grateful for something this past year, take a moment to share it with others


Harlequin author and friend of Seekerville, Janet Tronstad is inviting you and everyone in the Harlequin family (readers, authors, and staff) to join together
to build a Thanksgiving Wall of Gratitude.

Got something you’re grateful for? Health? Friendship? Family? Post about it here before midnight EST on Thanksgiving Day.

If you don’t already have something to post on the wall, consider this. Janet is giving away a $25 Barnes and Noble gift card for every 25 unique readers who post a gratitude on the wall (up to 8 gift cards – authors and HQ staff encouraged to post although they won’t be eligible for the gift cards). Janet is offering this as a tribute to her fictitious small town, Dry Creek, Montana, that holds a similar Thanksgiving event every year.

This wall is for all of the Harlequin lines. When you post, please note which lines you read, write, or edit/market. Multiple lines can be cited. After you’ve posted, please check back later to comment on what others have said. Winners will be announced on the day after Thanksgiving.

Together let’s be thankful!

And finally, Seekerville would like to congratulate friend of Seekerville Valerie Comer on her first sale. Valerie's fiction debuts in May 2012 with a novella in Rainbow's End from Barbour.