With Loot, Tania James breathes new life into the history of India’s colonization. Her tool is a toymaker eager to learn the skills of an ingenious eighteenth-century mechanic. The toymaker’s tool is an ornately carved tiger. In the waning years of his rule, the sultan of Mysore commissions seventeen-year-old Abbas…

Today it’s my privilege to feature author Priscilla Bettis. She’s a member of Brave Authors, a Facebook collaboration of Christian fiction writers. Priscilla is a former horror author writing her first literary Christian novel. She’s a reviewer at The Well Read Fish and chats about life and writing on X.…

Maybe there would be no more wars if everyone who wants to be a soldier, and every politician who wants to wage war, was forced to read All Quiet on the Western Front. Told from the viewpoint of a young man snatched from academic life into the jaws of World…

  August 2024 Book Releases Happy Friday, Chevron Ross followers! Below you'll find information on newly released books by members of American Christian Fiction Writers. More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW website.   Biblical: A Certain Man by Linda Dindzans -- Mara is a…

Undine Spragg's beauty is her only asset. So she uses it ruthlessly. As her parents rise from rural obscurity to modest acceptance in early Twentieth Century New York, Undine bullies them into sacrificing their assets on the altar of aristocracy. She splurges on expensive clothes, seats at the opera, and…

This week I have the pleasure of introducing Thomas Trezise, who has worn many hats in his life and has penned a book with an interesting premise. Tom is a retired lawyer and corporate executive with over twenty years of experience as a Methodist lay preacher. Raised in Appalachia, he…

It’s been a long time since a book made me laugh out loud. How surprising that humor should come from a miserable eighth grader with a dysfunctional family. Doug Swieteck has moved to a small town with his abusive father, bullying brother, and weak-willed mother. His only valuable possession is…

Today it’s my privilege to feature author Shannon McNear. She’s a member of Brave Authors, a Facebook collaboration of Christian fiction writers. After more than two decades in the South, Shannon McNear now makes her home on the windy northern plains with her husband, two of their eight children, two…

What is the connection between an adolescent Indian girl, and a Scottish doctor at a leper colony? You have to read a long time to find the answer, but author Abraham Verghese provides plenty of drama along the way in his novel The Covenant of Water. The story begins in…

Today it’s my privilege to feature author Sara Whitley. She’s a member of Brave Authors, a Facebook collaboration of Christian fiction writers. Author Profile I am a wife to Ben, mom to Elyse, Oliver, and Isaiah, a social worker at the VA, and a Christian fiction author. My mission in…