To all of the wonderful fathers out there: HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

I’m off to attend a family reunion this weekend in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I’ll be blogging as time permits!

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

When I received my Today’s Christian Woman magazine a few weeks ago, they had a nice surprise inside…a Love Inspired romance sampler. I think this is a great way for Love Inspired to promote Christian romance fiction to female readers! I would post the titles and authors advertised, however, I don’t have the sampler in front of me right now, and my cluttered brain can’t recall the information.

On to another subject, on my Black Christian Fiction website, I’ve added a page for writers. On this page, I encourage writers to email me questions about writing and seeking publication, and I plan on answering those questions on my blog, as time permits. I’ve received a question, and I plan on answering that soon. I plan on adding the same question/answer option on my homepage: www.ceceliadowdy.com

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

I know it’s late May, but in my mind it’s the third week in September….my writing mind, that is. The setting for my latest book is Ocean City Maryland. I’m currently researching different events that occur during the fall and winter months in the beach city! I’ve been to Ocean City a number of times, however, I usually go during the summer, when tons of tourists visit this place!

Sunfest sounded like a great event to highlight in my book! It sounds fun and wonderful!

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

While doing a search on Youtube, I found a few book trailers of Christian fiction novels and Christian fiction novels that had been turned into movies. For the latter, the book trailer is actually a movie trailer, which certainly gives it a more professional appeal. Here are the links to the Christian book movie trailers I was looking at the last couple of days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f2N-93uBCo
House The Movie by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti
For those of you who are interested, I reviewed this book for my blog back in November? Feel free to browse through the archives to see what I thought about this novel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAw98ZYVkk&mode=related&search=
Thr3e The Movie By Ted Dekker
I reviewed this novel sometime last year. Feel free to search through the archives to see what I thought of this thriller!

And here are a few Christian fiction book trailers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocAATP9E004
Left Behind – Eternal Forces By Time LaHaye And Jerry Jenkins
I just blogged about the first book in this series a few days ago, although I read the book several years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToEon3VXvXc

Petticoat Ranch
by Mary Connealy
I purchased this book recently, but have not found time to read it yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5HNztCTNf0
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Your Wedding by Cindy K. Green

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBX8Nir0dk
Heart Of Gold by Rebecca Goings

If you see any other interesting Christian book trailers, feel free to send me the links so that I can post on my blog.

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

More and more authors are using book trailers to promote their books. A book trailer is similiar to a movie trailer which you usually see before a movie starts. I’ve noticed you view a lot of these on Youtube I’ll try and gather up a few book trailers for Christian novels and post the links on the blog tomorrow.

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

That term was going through my mind when I was at work this afternoon! We hear of haunted houses, but never haunted office buildings! I was thinking it would make a cool story…if I could write that type of fiction! I think of Peretti or Dekker writing a novel about a haunted office building…the workers are trapped inside as demons lurk around the corner…

Oh, well, maybe I’m working too hard since those things were going through my mind today!

Later!

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

I just recently finished judging entries for two writing contests. One of them needs published authors for the second round of judging, so I volunteered for that, also. I want to encourage all unpublished writers to enter contests! It’s a great way to get feedback from readers and published authors! You may receive some great tips that’ll help you get published along the way!

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

To mothers all over the world, Happy Mother’s Day!

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com

I visited this store today and throughly browsed through the fiction section. I noticed that they had five Heartsong Presents titles, however, they were old, published back in 2005. I’ve been told that some Family Christian Bookstores stock the new Heartsong Presents titles prominently in their stores, with an end cap. However, I’ve never seen current Heartsong Presents titles in Christian or secular bookstores. Since I have a book coming out with them, it would please me to see the book in the store at the same time that the bookclub members receive their titles.

However, I did see PLENTY of Barbour’s state-themes anthologies. I also saw a few of Barbour’s women’s fiction titles.

Randy Alcorn, the author of the non-fiction title Heaven, has a novel out. I didn’t realize that. It’s called Deception. I’ve never read Heaven, since I’m mainly a fiction gal, however, it has crossed my mind to read this title. Maybe I’ll consider reading it when and if I ever get finished with The Purpose Driven Life. I also wonder whose idea it was for Randy Alcorn to pen a novel? Did his publisher ask him to pursue it since he was so popular in non-fiction, and this would be another avenue of writing for Randy to explore?

Speaking of non-fiction authors penning fiction novels, I purchased a novel my Michelle Mckinney Hammond entitled The Last Ten Percent. Ms. Hammond usually writes Christian non-fiction about dating, being single, and relationships. I wonder why she felt compelled to write a novel? I’ll definately post a review of the novel whenever I get around to reading it.

Thr3e, which was released as a movie last January is already out on DVD. I was surprised that it was available so soon after it’s theatrical release.

In addition to The Last Ten Percent, the other books I purchased were:
Sticks And Stones by Susan Meissner
and for my toddler son: All Things Bright And Beautiful

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com