The Weekend Edition

If you are not familiar with our giveaway rules, take a minute to read them here. It keeps us all happy! All winners should send their name, address, and phone number to claim prizes. Send to Seekers@Seekerville.net

Winners of Peace in the Valley are Wilani Wahl and Barbara Fox! 


Monday: Mary Connealy asked everyone to consider writing pulp fiction. The winner of a copy of Long Time Gone is Phyllis Wheeler.

Tuesday: Seekerville was delighted to welcome back Eva Marie Everson with her thoughtful post, "The Choices We Make." Tracey Hagwood is the winner of her latest release from Tyndale, The One True Love of Alice-Ann.

Wednesday: Jenni DeWitt visited to tell us Why she switched from Indy publishing to Traditional. The winner of Jenni's book Why Won't God Talk to Me? (Surprising Ways He Already Is) is Anne Carol.

Thursday: Connie Queen was our hostess today, with her post, "Stripping Your Characters of the Their Identities: Ramping Up Internal Conflict the Easy Way." Cindy W and Theresa Van Meter are the lucky winners of Seekerville mugs. Thank you, Connie.

Monday: Stephanie Dees, Love Inspired author of The Dad Next Door,  joins us today with her post, "Long-Term Critique Partnerships: Myth or Magic?" She's sharing tips and has a double giveaway!


Tuesday: Tina Radcliffe is in the house, with "The Art of Listening." Bring your ears, and listen closely for a terrific giveaway as well. 

Wednesday: Award-winning author Pepper Basham joins us to take the pulse of "The Heart of Christian Fiction," so be sure to stop by for a chance to win Pepper's latest release, Just the Way You Are.

Thursday: Join Ruthy Logan Herne today as she talks about "Taming the Wild West of Westerns... But Not Too Much!" Folks who love westerns know there's something broader, wilder, more rugged and demanding about eking a living from the land in the west. And while it's not the gunfighter-filled dirt streets of pre-1900, there's enough crazy going on these days to make these contemporary plots just as gripping as their historic counterparts. Ruthy's opening the prize vault and has an AUDIBLE copy of Back in the Saddle to give away to one lucky commenter! (commentor) Pick your spelling!

Friday: Welcome to the Best of the Archives where we feature a post from our past. Comments are closed on Fridays to allow us to catch up on reading and writing. 

Myra Johnson is delighted to announce that her historical romance Castles in the Clouds has been named a finalist for the Selah Awards! Winners to be announced May 24 at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. Visit the BRMCWC page or the Selah Awards page on Facebook for a complete list of all the finalists! 

You can also catch Myra at Sherida Stewart's blog next Tuesday, May 9, for Sherida's #TuesdayTea review of A Rose So Fair, book 3 in the Flowers of Eden series. Be sure to comment for a chance to win a copy of the book!

Congratulations to Debby Giusti who was added to the RWA Honor Roll! 

The RWA Honor Roll recognizes current RWA members who have a work of romance fiction, excluding multi-author anthologies and multi-author boxed sets, that has: appeared on any New York Times bestseller list; appeared on the Publishers Weekly Top Ten bestseller list or any other PW best-seller list based solely on format, genre, or region; appeared in the top 50 of the USA Today bestseller list; or sold at least 100,000 copies in a single language, including copies from digital, print and audio formats, as well as reissues of the identical work that do not appear in multi-author anthologies and multi-author boxed sets.

Amish Refuge, the first book in Debby Giusti’s new Amish Protectors series, hit bookstores May 1^st. Find your copy, print or digital, at Amazon. Print copies are also available at Walmart, K-Mart and anywhere Love Inspired stories are sold. 

No Way Up, book #1 in the Cimarron Legacy Series is on sale now for only $2.99 ebook. When Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him. Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its conditions be enforced immediately.

Without anyone else to serve as a witness, Heath is pressed into reading the will. If Justin, Sadie, and Cole Boden don't live and work at home for the entire year, the ranch will go to their low-down cousin Mike.

Then Heath discovers the avalanche was a murder attempt, and more danger might follow. Deeply involved with the family, Heath's desire to protect Sadie goes far beyond friendship. The danger keeps them close together, and their feelings grow until being apart is the last thing on their minds.

$0.99 cent Ebook Special - Stealing Jake is on sale for $0.99 cents during the month of May.

When Livy O’Brien spies a young boy jostling a man walking along the boardwalk, she recognizes the act for what it is. After all, she used to be known as Light-Fingered Livy. But that was before she put her past behind her and moved to the growing town of Chestnut, Illinois, where she’s helping to run an orphanage. Now she’ll do almost anything to protect the street kids like herself.


Sheriff’s deputy Jake Russell had no idea what he was in for when he ran into Livy―literally while chasing down a pickpocket. With a rash of robberies and a growing number of street kids in town―as well as a loan on the family farm that needs to be paid off―Jake doesn’t have time to pursue a girl. Still, he can’t seem to get Livy out of his mind. He wants to get to know her better . . . but Livy isn’t willing to trust any man, especially not a lawman.

Deal Alert!! From May 5-11, book 1 in Julie Lessman's Winds of Change series, A Hope Undaunted, will be on sale for only 99 cents, so if you haven't read book 4 in Julie's O'Connor saga, you'll want to take advantage. 

This is Julie's favorite book she's ever written, so if you've already read it and liked it, then please spread the word, okay? Here are the links for the sale that runs MAY 5-11: AMAZON / B & N / CBD



 


And just released May 2, 2017:
Peace in the Valley, by Ruth Logan Herne! The long-awaited third story of the Double S Ranch is on shelves nationwide now... You can find this beautiful Western romance wherever mass market paperbacks are sold and the price... it's exactly where the race that knows Joseph would want it to be! $5.88 at Walmart. 









At the Omaha Word Sowers Conference with Chaka Heinze, Dawn Ford, Mikal Hermann, Mary Connealy and Sharee Stover

The Georgia Romance Writers Meeting with speaker Laurie Schnebly Campbell in center. L-R. Golden Heart finalist, Dianna Shuford, Debby Giusti, Laurie, Walt Mussell, Tanya Agler and Jeanine Englert.



Come for dinner, come to network!
Details here. 

Thanks for the link love!

Congratulations to the ACFW Genesis Semi-Finalists!  A shout out to Tanya Agler (finaled x 2 ), Laurie Wood, Cynthia Herron (finaled x 2), Sherrinda Ketchersid, Kathleen Bailey, Deb Garland, Linda Sammaritan, and Amanda Wen.

Congratulations to the Daphne Finalists, Unpublished Division with a special shout out to Jeanine Englert, Sharee Stover and Laura Conner Kestner. 

20 Days of Giveaways for 20 Years of Love Inspired! Visit the Love Inspired Facebook page from May 1st -20th and answer the daily question for a chance to win!

 Oregon Christian Writers Spring Conference. Open to writers of all genres and levels, is Saturday, May 20, in Eugene, Oregon. Authors and international speakers, married couple Dan Kline (The Savvy Couple’s Guide to Marrying after 35) and Kay Marshall Strom (Once Blind: The Life of John Newton), will keynote on the theme “Rekindling Your Passion: Encouragement for the Christian Writer.” To view the schedule and register, visit: http://oregonchristianwriters.org/spring-2017/.

Kindle Scout – A Two Year Performance Review (Kill Zone)

How to Optimize Your Amazon Author Central Pages (Jane Friedman) 

Agent stats on personalization, credentials, comp titles, and more! (Nathan Bransford)

How to Work with an Editorial Calendar ( Writer's Digest)

Want to Write for Chicken Soup for the Soul? (Chicken Soup)

With E-books Down, E-tailers Are Still Far From Out (PW)


Top 10 Facebook Advertising FAQs (Andrea Vahl) 

6 Ways to Identify a Contrived Plot (Fiction University)

7 Weird, Wonderful Words You Should Use More Often (PW) If you use one of these words in a sentence in the comments today we'll put your name in the hat for a Library Card Tote Bag.  (color may vary) Winner announced in the next Weekend Edition.

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