The Weekend Birthday Edition

Welcome to week two of our 10th birthday celebration. That means Seekerville is starting year 11! Every single day in October there is a giveaway! 

Every comment you make goes into the drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card given away every weekend and at the end of the month, we'll draw a name for a Kindle Fire with Alexa.




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

Sunday's winner of a Seeker Book of Choice as available on Amazon is Julia Buzard.

Saturday's winners of Ruthy's duo release with Jillian Hart "Jingle Bell Bride" and "His Mistletoe Family" are Linda Moffit, Bettie Boswell and Wilani Wahl! 

The $50 Amazon gift card winner of the week is Sherrinda Ketchersid!

Monday: Mary Connealy launched our tenth birthday celebration!! Monday's winner of a Kindle Fire is Deana Dick. The winner of a signed copy of Mary Connealy's newly released Too Far Down is Voni Harris. And Mary is giving a bonus copy of Too Far Down to Janelle, who urged her daughter to read using Mary's books.

Tuesday:  Mark Gottlieb, Literary Agent with Trident Media Group, LLC was our birthday guest with his post, "Are You Ready for Literary Representation?" Winners of three copies of New York Times bestselling author Samantha Chase's The Baby Arrangement / Baby, I'm Yours / Baby, Be Mine (Life, Love and Babies Series) are Josee Telfer, Marcia and Jeanine. Winner of a $25 Amazon gift card is Andrew Joyce.

Wednesday: Virginia Carmichael aka Mary Jane Hathaway was back in Seekerville today with her post, "Ten Ways Seekerville Made Me A Better Writer." Winner of Autumn Majesty: Season of Faith Book 2 is Karen Sargent.

Thursday: Seekerville was thrilled to welcome USA Today Bestselling Author and 2017 Christy Award finalist Tamera Alexander to the Village with "10 Writing Tips for Staying Focused & Finishing Your Book." Winner of Tamera's gift basket is Anne Carol.

Friday: Love Inspired editor Emily Rodmell returned to Seekerville today with her post, "Advice for Authors at Every Level of the Publication Journey." Winner of a  surprise Love Inspired book giveaway is Barbara Fox.

Saturday: Seeker Tina Radcliffe was your hostess today with her post, "Ten Things I've Learned in Ten Years." Jackie Smith is the winner of a Seeker book of choice as available on Amazon. Laura Conner Kestner and DebH are winners of ecopies of Jeff Goins' book You are a Writer. All three are winners of an advance copy of Claiming Her Cowboy when Tina's copies arrive. 

Monday:  Bethany House Publishing's fiction publicist, Amy Green, is our special guest today!

Tuesday:  Despite Myra's objections, Grammar Queen has invited herself to the party! She's promised no pop quizzes, but we can expect plenty of her usual sass as she shares her "Top Ten Tips for Polishing Your Prose." Be in your assigned seats for class time if you want to be entered in GQ's giveaway of a surprise bundle of books!

Wednesday: Are you struggling to build a riveting plot? Layered characters? How about fortifying that saggy middle? Creating that powerful ending? You can build an entire book by asking one powerful question, and then plugging it into an “equation” that makes your plot and characters come to life. Join Susan May Warren as she discusses the "One Question That Will Unlock Your Entire Story." She will also be giving away a copy of The Story Equation: How to Plot and Write a Brilliant Story with One Powerful Question as well as A Matter of Trust the latest in her Montana Rescue series.

Thursday:  Be sure to stop in today as Ruthy Logan Herne celebrates 10 Years of Seekerville and the release of her 20th Love Inspired Book The Lawman's Yuletide Baby. Ruthy will be on hand with fall treats, free copies of the book and a $20 gift card, a buck for each book! 

Friday:  Stephanie Karfelt is today's birthday guest with a great post about her journey from fiction to fact with her new non-fiction book detailing life in a time of dementia, "Nobody Told Me!" "Nobody told me" is "Gummy's" response to the growing confusing world surrounding an aging woman sinking deeper into the throws of degenerative brain disease. Come see Stephanie and see how you can make readers laugh-- and cry-- and then laugh again in the face of adversity.

Saturday: Seekerville's own marketing guru, Vince Mooney returns to Seekerville with "The Ten Most Effective Ways To Reward Readers for Reading Your Novel." Don't miss it, and we've got a great giveaway too!

Plain Truth 

Rocky Mountain Cowboy  

Their Surprise Daddy   

The Nanny Bargain 

Join Julie Lessman on Facebook Live THURSDAY, 10/12/17 AT 7PM CDT when she interviews award-winning author Laura Frantz and win a copy of your choice of Laura's paperback books PLUS choice of one of Julie's indie e-novels OR 3 of her e-novellas! Here's the link -- hope to see you there!   JULIE'S FB AUTHOR PAGE

Congratulations to Debby Giusti. She hit a Harlequin milestone with the release of Undercover Amish. This is her 20th release from Love Inspired.

It's that time of year when we ask you to please consider nominating Seekerville for the 19th Annual Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers Award. Send an email to writers.digest@fwcommunity.com with “101 Websites” in the subject line. We are an Inspirational Romance Writing Community. 

Thanks for the link love!

OCW Fall Conference is coming! Open to writers of all genres and levels, the fall conference of Oregon Christian Writers is Saturday, October 21, from 8:30–4:30 at Rolling Hills Community Church, 3550 S.W. Borland Road, Tualatin, Oregon. Writer’s Digest author, novelist, and editor Jeff Gerke will keynote on the theme “Writing to Capture Readers.” Afternoon workshops cover fiction, poetry, memoir, marketing, writing markets, and story structure, as well as a special teen writing track with award-winning author Jill Williamson. To view the day’s schedule and register, visit: http://oregonchristianwriters.org/fall-2017.

9 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden (Mental Floss)

How to Set Up an Email List – For Free (Aliventures)

5 Important Writing Tips from Author Anna J. Stewart (SYTYCW)

How to Find the Right Developmental Editor for Your Book (Writer Unboxed)

45 Inspirational Marketing Tips from Authors [Free Flipbook!] (Bookbub Partners)

Writing Tips: 9 Steps For Effectively Revising Your Novel (The Creative Penn)

Writers are Competitive (Fiction University)

Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – October 2017 (The Book Designer)

Keeping a Series Fresh (Nancy's Notes from Florida)

Romance Novels, Generated by Artificial Intelligence (Towards Data Science)

***Make a Date with Harlequin SALE! 500 ebooks. 16 series. On sale now at major retailers! If you'd like a PDF list of all the Love Inspired books (LI, LIS & LIH) on sale during the October 7-10 promotion, please send us an email to seekers@seekerville.net and we'll share, to make stocking up on your favorite reads easy! Thanks to Villager, and Love Inspired Suspense & Historical author, Sherri Shackelford for compiling the list.

Time for cake and a few birthday videos!

 You are welcome to submit your ten to fifteen-second videos to

seekers@seekerville.net for use in October,

 on our blog and/or Facebook as space allows.

Friend of Seekerille, Jackie Layton, Connie Queen, Sherrinda Ketchersid & Michelle Catlett

Seeker Cara Lynn James

Seeker Missy Tippens

Villager Laurie Wood