Who doesn't want free books?

We had such a great response to our last book giveaway that we’ve decided to make it a regular event! So we are giving away a ten-pound box of autographed Chapter-a-Week books to one Chapter-a-Week member again.

Simply send an email with “Chapter-a-Week Summer Reading Giveaway” in the subject line to cawcontest@gmail.com and you’ll be entered in the drawing. The deadline for signing up is September 5th and the winner will be announced September 12th. Get your entries in and be sure to tell your friends to sign up for Chapter-a-Week!

To qualify, the return email address must be on the Chapter-a-Week membership list. Continental U. S. residents only, please. Industry professionals should refrain from entering, and though we'd love you to share our books with your friends, these books are not for resale.
Thanks and happy reading!

Your friends at Chapter-a-Week

Where have I been?

I know, I know--I've been too sporadic to call myself a blogger. I guess that'll have to be okay. I've been busily writing, editing, mothering and wifing. I'm pretty sure wifing isn't a word. Here's my last book, Into the Wilderness.
There's a trade version (yes, you'll be able to get it at regular bookstores across the country!) of A State of Grace coming out soon. I think it has the best cover I've ever had on any of my books! I'd put up the cover for it and my upcoming release Open Arms, but I only have a pdf version and I'm not so good at the techie stuff. Trust me, it's awesome!

Well, hey, at least I posted!
Have a great one,
Traci

Call me a proud aunt

My nephew Jacob Hedden will be performing tonight at the Northwestern Christian Bookstore in Maple Grove. Jake is 18 and a gifted guitarist. I'm so proud of this young man, who gives so freely and has a humble, gentle spirit.

Stop by and see him if you're in the neighborhood!

State Track Meet

My daughter Megan is competing in the State Track Meet today! For three years she's been one spot, a fraction of a second, out of going to this competition so we're particularly thrilled. Above is a shot of her coach Becky Straub congratulating her. Let's hope for good weather and fast legs!

Here's a bit about last week's meet in Mankato (she's the girl in the picture) in the Mankato Free Press.

Carolyne Aarsen and Athol Dickson

There's only one more week to sign up for the Chapter-a-Week Summer Reading Book Giveaway—check out all the details here.

Here's a bit about this week's selections on Chapter-a-Week:

Finally a Family
Carolyne Aarsen
Love Inspired – June, 2008

A Farm – A desire to atone for past wrongs – And two people caught in the middle.

This is MY Farm:
Arrogant Ethan Westerveld could scream that from the barn roof if he wanted, but half the place was now Hannah Kristoferson's. Not that she wanted one inch of the farm that reminded her of the only father she'd ever known- and his heartbreaking betrayal. Yet according to the terms of his will, she had to spend six months at Riverbend or forfeit the inheritance. Six months butting heads with too-handsome Ethan in order to make a quick sale and a new life far away? She'd do it. But Hannah didn't count on Ethan feeling like family…or that she'd want to stay forever.

Top Pick – Romantic Times:
. . .Carolyne Aarsen delivers a spunky heroine who keeps the story fun while a warm romance brews at just the right temperature. You'll be glad to read Finally A Family (4 ½)"

WINTER HAVEN by Athol Dickson
Christy Award-winning author of River Rising and The Cure
Romantic Times: "Top Pick!"
Library Journal: Starred Review
Christian Fiction Review: Five Stars

Athol Dickson's writing has been favorably compared to the work of
Octavia Butler (by Publishers Weekly), Daphne du Maurier (by Cindy Crosby of FaithfulReader.com) and Flannery O'Connor (by the New York Times).

To read an excerpt of these new titles go to Chapter-a-Week and to join our deeper discussion go to Chapter-a-Week Chat at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAWChat/ where authors and readers discuss new titles together.
If you enjoy Chapter-a-Week take the time to tell a friend how to sign up. It's easy and free and a great way to find books that fit each person's particular taste.

Summer Reading Book Giveaway!

At Chapter-a-Week we had such a great response to our last book giveaway that we’ve decided to make it a regular event! So we are giving away a ten-pound box of autographed Chapter-a-Week books to one Chapter-a-Week member for summer reading fun. All the details are at the Chapter-a-Week web site.

The deadline for signing up is June 6th and the winner will be announced June 13th. Get your entries in and be sure to tell your friends to sign up for Chapter-a-Week!

To qualify, the return email address must be on the Chapter-a-Week membership list. Continental U. S. residents only, please. Industry professionals should refrain from entering, and though we'd love you to share our books with your friends, these books are not for resale.Thanks and happy reading!

Head over there to check it out!
Warmly,
Traci DePree

New titles to give a try...

Learning to Fly
by
Roxanne Henke

New mom, Susan Schaffer, looks down at her newborn daughter, Lily, and wonders if she has what it takes to be a great mom. Each stage seems to bring a new challenge and Susan is filled with doubt. A chance meeting with former classmate, JoJo Nash, also a new mom, gives the two mothers a friendship to help each other, and their daughters, learn and grow. As the girls approach high school graduation their mothers are faced with the question: Are the girls ready to `fly' on their own? Learning to Fly is a novel about living, loving and letting go.

Andrea Sisco of Armchair Interviews.com writes: "All the self-help books or parenting classes in the world will not score a direct hit like Henke's message...a must read for all mothers and mothers-to-be."

Forty to Life
by Dave Jackson

"He came to pay a debt he didn't owe
Because I owed a debt I couldn't pay."

Murderer. It's a word few people ever expect to apply to them. But for fourteen-year-old Ray, it's suddenly a reality. Provoked by a gang leader into the random shooting of an innocent guy, Ray now faces a forty-year sentence in Chicago's infamous prison system. As far as Ray is concerned, it might as well be for life.
In prison, Ray finds his gangbanger ties difficult to escape and even necessary for survival. Just when he's resigned himself to this new existence, though, Ray receives an unexpected gift--forgiveness. Even as he learns that the source of this forgiveness is God, Ray struggles with accepting it. And then the ultimate test comes: When faced with the man who ruined his life, can Ray extend the same forgiveness that has been handed to him?

Reviews

"Forty to Life reads ... like a documentary account ... taking you into life on the mean streets of Chicago." --Randy Brandt, contend4thefaith.org

To read excerpts from these interesting new titles go to Chapter-a-Week !