Daily Archives: April 30, 2008

Christy Award Nominees!

I’d like to congratulate the following 2008 Christy Award Nominees:

CONTEMPORARY (STAND ALONE)

Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin (Thomas Nelson)

In High Places by Tom Morrisey (Bethany House, a division of Baker
Publishing

Group)

Quaker Summer by Lisa Samson (Thomas Nelson)

CONTEMPORARY (SERIES, SEQUELS, AND NOVELLAS)

Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon (Viking Penguin)

A Time to Mend by Sally John and Gary Smalley (Thomas Nelson)

What Lies Within by Karen Ball (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group)

HISTORICAL

Lady of Milkweed Manor by Julie Klassen (Bethany House, a division of
Baker

Publishing Group)

A Proper Pursuit by Lynn Austin (Bethany House, a division of Baker
Publishing

Group)

Tendering in the Storm by Jane Kirkpatrick (WaterBrook Multnomah
Publishing

Group)

LITS (four nominees due to a tie)

Doesn’t She Look Natural by Angela Elwell Hunt (Tyndale House
Publishers)

Hallie’s Heart by Shelly Beach (Kregel Publications)

Let Them Eat Cake by Sandra Byrd (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing
Group)

Trophy Wives Club by Kristin Billerbeck (Avon Inspire, a division of
HarperCollins

Publishers)

ROMANCE

Lightning and Lace by DiAnn Mills (Barbour Publishing)

Remember to Forget by Deborah Raney (Howard Books, a division of Simon
and

Schuster)

Remembered by Tamera Alexander (Bethany House, a division of Baker
Publishing

Group)

SUSPENSE

The Cure by Athol Dickson (Bethany House, a division of Baker
Publishing Group)

My Hands Came Away Red by Lisa McKay (Moody Publishers)

The Pawn by Steven James (Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group)

VISIONARY

Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing
Group)

The Restorer by Sharon Hinck (NavPress Publishing Group)

Scarlet by Stephen R. Lawhead (Thomas Nelson)

FIRST NOVEL

Auralia’s Colors by Jeffrey Overstreet (WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing
Group)

Demon: A Memoir by Tosca Lee (NavPress Publishing Group)

The Stones Cry Out by Sibella Giorello (Revell, a division of Baker
Publishing Group)

YOUNG ADULT

Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson (NavPress Publishing Group)

In Between by Jenny B.Jones (NavPress Publishing Group)

Maggie Come Lately by Michelle Buckman (NavPress Publishing Group)