Exciting things have been happening at WordServe Literary!
On the final post of each month you’ll find a list of Water Cooler contributors’ books releasing in the upcoming month along with a recap of WordServe client news from the current month.
New Releases
Debora M. Coty released The Bible Promise Book: Too Blessed to be Stressed Edition 
with Barbour, a collection of selections from the original Too Blessed to be Stressed book.
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Roberta Kells Dorr released Abraham and Sarah with River North.
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Jan Dunlap released Saved by Gracie with Authentic.
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Paul Kent released Playing with Purpose: Baseball Devotions with Barbour.
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Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall released Mark of Evil with Zondervan.
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Ben & Julianna Zobrist with Mike Yorkey released Double Play with B&H Publishers.
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Mike Yorkey released Playing with Purpose: Racing with Barbour.
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New WordServe Clients
Shelley Hendricks signed with Alice Crider.
Leticia Yuzefpolsky signed with Greg Johnson.
Linda Znachko signed with Alice Crider.
New Contracts
Anita Agers-Brooks signed a contract with Barbour for her non-fiction project titled, Getting Through What You Can’t Get Over. Alice Crider, agent of record.
What We’re Celebrating!!
The Brotherhood Conspiracy by Terry Brennan is a finalist for Foreword Review’s 2013 Book of the Year Award, in the category of Action & Adventure (Adult Fiction). Foreword Reviews, the only review magazine solely dedicated to discovering new indie books, announced the finalists for its 16th Annual Book of the Year Awards. The winners will be determined within the next two months. The final announcement will be made Friday, June 27, in Las Vegas, during the American Library Association Annual Conference. There are awards in over 60 categories and cash prizes for the best in fiction and nonfiction. Here is the complete list of finalists and the listing for The Brotherhood Conspiracy can be found here.
Amy Sorrells’ debut novel How Sweet the Sound received a fantastic review from USA Today!
Set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a time when the topic of sexual abuse was not a thing “talked about” in the media and for which victims were still too often treated as “deserving” of the crimes committed against them, this novel refuses to nicey-nice over tough and ugly realities. This story is, throughout, raw — but yet penned with a sweetness of prose that makes you want to keep reading, even when you know it would be easier to curl into a ball and weep for the brokenness of the characters therein.
Poignant switches of point-of-view between Anniston and her aunt, Comfort, show the reach of abuse within generations of the same family and stretch a reader’s heart to its limits. Simply put, it hurts to read this novel. It hurts to watch the characters go through what they do. It hurts to see family secrets exposed, revealing pain upon pain. It hurts to see them abandon true love and it hurts when they are seemingly abandoned by it — but how beautiful the pain when an ending so lovely and right redefines and redeems several futures at once.
This book will turn your emotions inside out and grip your heart with a clawed fist before pouring acid — and then balm — over the wounds. You have been warned. Now, by all means, go buy this unusually edgy and entirely moving inspirational novel and read it for yourself.
What are you celebrating on this writing journey?
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