Check out the Blogs or Web-Pages of the following authors for a great start at Christmas gift giving, for yourself or for someone that you know. Free books are being given away by these authors ~ sign up for a chance to win now!!!! The First Drawing will be on November 14 and the winner announced on the 15th.
All the names will be dumped after that drawing. Then there will be another drawing on November the 21st for the book, Song of the Talanton (Includes CD) (Conciliar Press) You will need to send your name after the 15th to be included in that drawing. That drawing will coincide with the opening of Heavenly Ladder Books, Arts, Coffee and Tea .
Our first day in operation with a service in the Chapel will begin on Monday, November 22, also my brother's birthday and the beginning of the week of Thanksgiving. How nice is that!
To enter one of my drawings please email me your name though the comments section under this entry and I will put your name in the hopper. The name of the winner of my drawings will be entered on this blog.
Author Chrissi Hart has a Doctorate in Psychology from the University of Leicester, UK. As a Chartered Clinical Psychologist in England, she helped troubled children for twenty years. Born in Cyprus, Chrissi now writes stories for children from her cultural heritage that are inspiring and spiritually satisfying. She lives in York, Pennsylvania, with her husband Barry and children, Adam and Sophia. They attend St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox Church, where Chrissi is a choir member and tends the church gardens. She has a podcast slot on Ancient Faith Radio with the reading of Children’s Books. Chrissi will be giving away a copy of The Hermit, the Icon and the Emperor.(Conciliar Press) On her podcast she reads the various books: See this page for her book give away:http://chrissihart.com/2010/11/book-give-away-the-hermit-the-icon-and-the-emperor-2/
Heather Zydek is a novelist and English teacher who lives in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin with her husband and three daughters. She served as editor of the books The Revolution: A field manual for changing your world and The Relevant Nation: 50 Activists, Artists and Innovators who are changing their world with faith (Relevant Books, 2006). Learn more about her work at www.heatherzydek.com. Heather will be giving away her book, Basil’s Search for Miracles,(Conciliar Press) on her website.
Jane G. Meyer was a contributing editor and columnist for a journal for Orthodox Christian women, The Handmaiden , and is an active author who has published two books through SVS Press, and another, The Life of Saint Brigid, through Conciliar Press. This week she is giving away a copy of
The Woman and the Wheat on her blog. Find her at http://www.jangemeyer.com or http://janegmeyer.wordpress.com
Katherine Bolger Hyde has been associated with Conciliar Press in some capacity for the last sixteen years, and is currently serves on a freelance basis as their acquisitions editor. She is also an author and will be giving away a copy of her book, Lucia, Saint of Light (Conciliar Press) Blog: http://kbhyde.wordpress.com
Website: http://www.kbhyde.com/lucia
Lucia on Conciliar site: http://www.conciliarpress.com/lucia-saint-of-light.html
Jane’s review of Lucia on AFR: http://http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/speakingofbooks/lucia_saint_of_light
Claire Brandenburg has working in a variety of different art forms. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums and has received numerous awards. In the last 10 years she has used both picture and word in the writing and illustration of Orthodox children’s books. She is currently starting a bookstore, Heavenly Ladder and reader’s Chapel, Holy Annunciation in Taos, N.M of which she is acting as manager through Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Santa Fe, NM
See , Claire Brandenburg (FaceBook) , . She will be giving away a copy of the Tumbled Stone, (New Varatec Publishing, a small press through the Protection of the Mother of God Orthodox Monastery in Lake George, Colorado) on her blogspot and on facebook.
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