The History of the Christy Award

Laura FrantzAuthors, Books, Events, History, Inspiration, Novel News, Reading, The Christy Award, Uncategorized, Writing News

Since 1999, The Christy Awards™ have honored Christian novels of excellence, imagination, and creativity. The Christy Award™ is designed to nurture and encourage creativity and quality in the writing and publishing of fiction written from a Christian worldview and showcase the diversity of genres. The Award is named for Catherine Marshall’s enduring bestselling novel, Christy, published in 1967. When I …

Works that will outlast us…

Laura FrantzAuthors, Books, Events, faith, Inspiration, Novel News, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing News

If you’re looking to add to your reading list, have a look at the Christy finalists for 2018. This award is associated with Catherine Marshall and her classic Christy set in my beloved Appalachian mountains. This particular novel inspired me and my writing in ways I can’t name as well as her other nonfiction books on faith. I was a …

God of the Details

Laura FrantzBooks, Events, Inspiration, Reading, Uncategorized

Some of us are raised singing ‘Jesus Loves Me’ and also memorize the remarkable verse, “Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” (Luke 12:7) Yet I tend to be surprised when God delights me, even reminds me, of just how true that is. He really is the Lord of the details… Long ago when I was a …