New Christian Fiction & Social Media Releases
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The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality Sale Price: $12.83 Average Rating:   |
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In popular usage, "mysticism" typically refers to New Age or Eastern forms of spirituality. However, the mystical tradition is also an important component of the Christian tradition. At its heart--and much like its expression in other faith traditions--Christian mysticism is an ancient practice that incorporates meditation, contemplation, worship, philosophy, the quest for personal enlightenment, and the experience of Divine presence... |
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Breakfast with Jesus Sale Price: $7.17 Average Rating:  |
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Greg Laurie brings us along on a walk with Jesus and his disciples, encouraging us to see him through the eyes of his disciples in order to know him better, challenging us firsthand with the main spiritual lessons Jesus entrusted to his followers, and inspiring us with the many promises that the Savior gave to those who choose to follow him... |
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The Christian Grandma's Idea Book: Hundreds of Ideas, Tips, and Activities to Help You Be a Good Grandma Sale Price: $8.94 Average Rating: |
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In the long-awaited sequel to The Christian Mom's Idea Book, grandmothers, moms, and even grandkids share hints and helps for good grandmothering in nearly 25 areas. Grandmas of any age and at any stage will find something just for them in Ellen Elwell's sequel to The Christian Mom's Idea Book... |
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Sisterhood of Faith: 365 Life-Changing Stories about Women Who Made a Difference Sale Price: $8.74 Average Rating:  |
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Woman to Woman... Sister to Sister... Friend to FriendBound by an Unstoppable Faith...Changing Their World ForeverThe forces that bind woman to woman, sister to sister, and friend to friend are among the most powerful in the world... |
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Bible Guess Who?: A Slide & See Book Sale Price: $5.10 Average Rating: |
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Vibrant illustrations take children on an adventure through favorite Bible stories using pull tabs to answer a "guess who" question in every story. (20040603) |
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Christian Mother Goose Big Book Sale Price: $49.88 Average Rating: |
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Mrs. Decker's books have endeared the trust of parents and the twinkle of children around the world, with appeal to Bible lovers of all ages. |
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The Christian Mom's Idea Book: Hundreds of Ideas, Tips, and Activities to Help You Be a Great Mom Sale Price: $9.24 Average Rating: |
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This reissue features more than 500 family-tested ideas and creative suggestions from real moms to help fellow mothers raise godly kids-and have fun at it too. Whether they're mothers of preschoolers or high schoolers, mothers with one child or a houseful of children, single mothers or the parents of a special needs child, every Christian mom will be able to make the most of motherhood with this resourceful book... |
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The Christian Book of Mystical Verse Sale Price: $11.96 Average Rating: |
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2010 Reprint of 1963 edition. Selected and with an introduction and notes by A.W. Tozer. The purpose of this book is to bring together in one convenient volume some of the best devotional verse the English language affords, and thus to make available to present day Christians a rich spiritual heritage which the greater number of them for various reasons do not now enjoy... |
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The Christian Mother Goose Book of Nursery Rhymes Sale Price: $78.95 Average Rating: |
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For Christian families that want to weave inspirational messages into their children's day-to-day lives, Marjorie Ainsborough Decker's time-tested approach will be very appealing. For more than 20 years, Decker's Christian Mother Goose books (Rock-A-Bye Bible, Bless My Little Friends, etc... |
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The One Year Christian History (One Year Books) Sale Price: $10.51 Average Rating: |
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What happened on this date in church history? From ancient Rome to the twenty-first century, from peasants to presidents, from missionaries to martyrs, this book shows how God does extraordinary things through ordinary people every day of the year... |
Christian Fiction Literature is a rapidly expanding literary field which has developed considerably over the last several years. Originally seen as the "escapist" and "not so serious" little cousin of more serious works on Biblical Theology, Fiction has developed to be so way more than just entertainment. Historians have long recognized that folks learn thru many ways.
Reading facts, historic accounts, and most importantly listening to stories. Before writing there were stories, passed from generation to generation. And these stories both entertained, and taught about significant issues such as morals, effects, lessons and history. Prior to radio, tv and the internet, stories were the principle form of entertainment. Whether over the campfire, pantomimes, puppet theatre or Shakespearean sagas, we have appreciated and fallen in love with our storytellers!
In today's arena of Christian fiction, getting consumers to acknowledge fiction, and how it can both entertain and educate is not a trivial task. This is where pro publicists may be able to assist. A publicist will work in association with the author and the publishing house to help project both the entertainment value of the book, as well as its Biblical and Scriptural worth. Publicists also find it critical to work closely with retailers, helping with the formulation and construction of campaigns that may at last communicate with patrons round the nation. Without the guidance of publicists it is all to straightforward for a retailer to miss the boat and fail to speak the benefit of a book.
We spoke with Rebeca Seitz, publicist and author at GlassRoad Public Relations, who has been liaising directly with the web services team at one progressive retailer's Christian Fiction group. The retailing organization - deeperShopping Christian Books has created exclusive web content featuring GlassRoad PR's most recent projects including Sisters Ink Scrapbooking Fiction and Sibella Giorello's Geologically inspired Thrillers. The retailer and the publicist both agreed that dropping recent releases of Christian Fiction titles into a database isn't a good way to educate consumers on the benefits of the book. It is their hope that patrons will be able to understand the inducement and the fact that the author wrote the titles - to find out the way in which the author is so electrified by their relationship with the Living God, that they represent that inspiration in the books they create and the stories that they tell.
So just how does one capture the heart of the author when you are explaining and describing their storylines? This isn't a straightforward task. And as a retailer or a publicist, what weight should be placed on your outline vs the description the actual author would use themselves?
In creating these new web sites, deeperShopping and GlassRoad PR decided to incorporate a number of new Social Networking features. So they added in references to the author's twitter feeds, flickr photo buckets and their facebook accounts. The result - simply spectacular. Each author has a web portal that features a biography, details of their latest books, and their latest communications from various social networking sites . The retailer even worked out how to integrate YouTube videos into the shopping experience. Now shoppers can get recent info about each workmen latest featured products alongside news from the artists themselves. The project has been a large success and takes retailing to a new level.
Sales in fiction have lifted as a result of this work, in some cases over 200% Due to the extreme success of the project, the retailer was motivated to begin a project to refresh additional content sections of their website and incorporate some of these new technologies and features.
It is our firm opinion that additional members of the Christian Booksellers Association will beging to udnerstand the benefits of social media and will incorporate these features into their retail websites. By 2010 it is expected that this will become standard operating procedure for Christian publishers.
What a tremendously interesting concept!
Correspondant for the International Christian Retail News Network
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