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

Bonton is the winner Of Rags and Riches Romance Collection. This collection features many of your favorite Seekerville friends including, Natalie Monk, Erica Vetsch, Susanne Dietze, Gabrielle Meyer, Jaime Jo Wright, Michelle Griep and Kathleen Y'Barbo (and new to us authors Jennifer Uhlarik and Anne Love).  

Monday: Janet Dean was your hostess and she took us to the beach to talk about "Beach Reads." Sandy Smith is the winner of a $15 Amazon gift card.

Tuesday: We brought you "How to Build Your Fire When Your Wood’s Still Wet" with Genesis finalist, Cynthia Herron. Jeanne T is the winner of lunch, coffee, and books!

Wednesday: Debby Giusti turned in the third book in her Amish Protectors series on Monday and was be ready to have some fun on Seekerville. She shared "Capturing Stories from the Headlines." Trixi and Terri W won a copy of Debby's Publishers Weekly bestseller, Amish Refuge, the first book in her Amish Protectors series, as well as a coloring book and colored pencils, along with a copy of The Writer's Prayer and The Reader's Prayer. Debby will also include a coupon for $1 off your next Love Inspired book purchase.

Thursday: Rachel Hauck returned to Seekerville with her post, "The Story Equation." Seekerville is giving away an ecopy and a print copy of The Writing Desk, a Romantic Times TopPick!  Winner of an ecopy is Vince and winner of a print copy is Cate Nolan.

Monday: Mary Connealy brings us, guest, Don Atkinson with a post on "Developing Devotionals."

Tuesday:  Seekerville is thrilled to have the 2016 Mt. Hermon, Writer of the Year,  Karen Barnett with us today. Her post is called, "Making Every Scene Count." One lucky commenter will win a copy of The Road to Paradise: A Vintage National Parks Novel. All you Mount Ranier National Park fans, be sure to stop by!

Wednesday: Come join Ruthy (Ruth Logan Herne) today as she offers the final post about writing cozy mysteries: "Cozying Up to Your Characters!" She's got a copy of A Light in the Darkness to give away to a lucky commenter and delightful insights about making your cozy mystery light up the darkness all on its own.

Thursday: Sandra Leesmith will share some ideas on how those of us who are not attending the RWA Conference in Orlando, Florida can study the craft of writing. Join her today and learn about "Online Classes. "

Friday: The Best of the Archives featuring a classic post from our ten years of blogging. Comments are closed on Fridays to catch up on reading and writing.

Look what arrived on Debby Giusti's doorstep...
Undercover Amish, book 2 in her Amish Protector series.
Preorder yours here.

Look for Debby Giusti at the "Readers for Life", Literacy Autographing at the RWA 37th Annual Conference at the Walt Disney  Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida,
Saturday, July 29, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET.
 Details here.
From RWA "At the "Readers for Life" Literacy Autographing, hundreds of romance authors meet with and sign books for fans in this two-hour event, with the proceeds from book sales going to literacy organizations.In 2016, Romance Writers of America raised more than $39,000 to benefit literacy programs—bringing our total donations since 1990 to $ 1 million!"

The CFRR is coming August 12, featuring your favorite authors, including Seekers Debby Giusti & Ruth Logan Herne.

Some really COOL news! Pam Hillman's August release,

The Promise of Breeze Hill is featured in the Heritage and

Culture section of the August issue of Mississippi Magazine. 

A Lovable rogue. A wary secretary. Caught in a downpour of love! Pre-order Julie Lessman's Grace Like Rain and be entered to win a character named after you in her next book, a signed copy, and a $50 gift card OR ten top CBA new releases! PLUS ... read the first chapter! Note: Formerly part of the With This Kiss collection.

You'll find all details HERE!

HO-HO-HO! The O’Connors are back! See what’s cooking’ for Christmas with Charity & Mitch and Lizzie & Brady from Julie Lessman’s Daughters of Boston series. Pre-order either novellas and be entered to win a character named after you in Julie’s next book, a signed copy, and a $50 gift card OR ten top CBA new releases!  Note: formerly part of the Seeker Christmas collections.

You'll find all details HERE!

She's the "accident" to his prayers! 

What happens when a runaway ex-saloon girl becomes a nanny 

for a pastor and his three girls? Pre-order Julie Lessman's Frontier Christmas novella and find out! PLUS be entered to win a character named after you in Julie's next book,  a signed copy, and a $50 gift card OR ten top CBA new releases! Note: formerly part of the Cowboy Christmas Homecoming collection.

                                             You'll find all details HERE!

And Ruthy wants to thank RWA at Large Director Barbara Wallace for featuring the ideas of Virtual Writing Retreats in the current RWR which is the perfect segue to this. There is still time to sign up for Seekerville's "Kick The Summer Doldrums to the Curb" Virtual Writer's Retreat August 13-20... e-mail Ruthy at loganherne@gmail.com and she'll sign you up to spend a pretend week at the gorgeous Rocky Ridge Ranch in the hills of Western Idaho! Over 40 people have signed up so far... and the more the merrier! Don't let summer, kids, vacation, heat and humidity mess with your dream. You can't always control the environment. But you can control the effort you put in!

Thanks for the link love.

The RWA 2017 Conference in Orlando starts next week.You can follow all the fun on Twitter at #RWA17. Debby Giusti will be bringing back all the deets. And keep an eye on the Golden Heart Awards..our own Laura Conner Kestner and Dianna Shuford are finalists! Check out all the Rita & GH finalists here.


The GH winners will be announced on Thursday, July 27 from 12:15 to 2 pm ET.  The Rita Awards will be streaming at www.RWA.org on Thursday, July 27, from 7-9 pm ET. The Harlequin Pajama Party is open to all! Subscribe to RWA here on Youtube for videos as they appear.

Real Artists Don’t Starve. Creativity And Money With Jeff Goins (The Creative Penn)

60 LIBRARY SYSTEMS ARE ON PACE TO HIT ONE MILLION DIGITAL CHECKOUTS WITH OVERDRIVE IN 2017 (OverDrive Blogs)

Barbour Publishing Becomes Employee-owned Company (Times Reporter)

Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription – 12 things to know (EBook Friendly)

Authors and Marketing Fatigue (The Book Designer)

New Agent at Steve Laube Agency -Check out his blog post here (Steve Laube Blog)

Lizzie Poteet, an editor with St. Martin's Press is now an agent with the Seymour Agency. Details here.


Exclusive cover reveal: ‘Second Chances’ anthology by RWA (plus excerpt!) (USA HEA BLOG)

9 Ways To Get The Very Best Out Of Your Book Cover Designer (The Creative Penn)

3 Reasons You Don't Need a Character Arc (Fiction University)

Leave a comment today and you could win an autographed copy of one of
Mary Connealy's
The Cimarron Legacy series.
No Way Up (2017 Carol Award Finaling release) or newly released Long Time Gone.
Two winners announced in the next Weekend Edition.