It would seem that Speaker to Lab Animals, as most people in fandom know him, has been jonesing for my newest books. He gives a wonderful three-fer review (of Extraction Point! with my terrific writing mentor Travis S. Taylor; The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival, and The Case of the Displaced Detective: At Speed) in his blog, “Teddy’s Rat Lab.”

What he doesn’t mention is that the airline flight companion with whom he discussed my books was familiar to him, but he didn’t place the guy until after he arrived at his destination and debarked. He’d been talking Displaced Detective to…actor Owen Wilson.

Have a look: http://teddysratlab.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-three-for-one-extraction-point.html

-Stephanie Osborn

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Sullivan Maxx Literary Agency

The second in the series, Cliques, Hicks, and Ugly Sticks!  hit the bestseller list for the Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) for January 2012.

April Grace is a Rock Star!

KD McCrite is dynamite!

Sullivan Maxx has recently acquired S.M. Fernand’s Appalachian Carnival, a modern work of fiction.  In Appalachian Carnival the heroine, Annabelle Cory, anxious to leave the small town she has lived in all of her nineteen years and join the carnival.  She meets a charming young carnie worker, leaves town with him the following day starting a ten day adventure.  During the ten days, Annabelle finds love, adventure, mysticsm and a journey into the world of the 1970′s drug world with an amazing hallucinogenic LSD trip.  Ultimately, Annabelle finds her path and, with great courage, follows her heart.

SF Novel: #11
Mystery Novel: #7
Artwork: #2
Book Cover Art: #9
Publisher: #21
Editor: #17

This is great news!

Veiled Virtues by Jan Fischer-Wade has a release date of February 10, 2012! What a story this is.  Published by Muse-It-Up Publishing.

Born with a stigmata, unexpected bleeding from her hands and forehead…

Paige didn’t know that modern day English knights do exist and that she would need their protection.  But all of this changed in an internet café in Newbury, England when she saw the blood on her laptop…

Paige has just graduated from high school and taken on a summer house-sitting gig in England for a friend of her mother’s. Strange occurrences such as hearing voices, the house turning into a freezer, and random bleeding wounds, outward markings of stigmata, appear on Paige.  She is suddenly aware that things are happening more now that she is in Newbury – she sees bits of the future and is strangely affected by certain people and objects.  Her supernatural potential has made her a target for an evil faction in England, the Cerberus Brotherhood, who want her for their own devices.

She meets Nathaniel who is an eclectic shop keeper known for little but is speculated more about in this country township. He and his family, as members of the Rosetta Guard, are all too familiar with the sinister capabilities of the “Cerbs.”  As Nathaniel confides his family’s secrets in Paige, their love grows, as does the commitment of the Guard to Paige’s cause.

Fischer-Wade is working on the sequel, Latent Legacy, which is sure to dig deeper into the Rosetta Guard.

The sequel to Ghost On Black Mountain, The Barren Soul, is set to come out this fall.

Shelly, a black child who was born with a caul, can see and communicate with those who have died; some who have gone on to be with Jesus and some who have things left undone…

In Ghost On Black Mountain, Shelly befriends Nellie against all opposition. In The Barren Soul, she tells us the untold story of Black Mountain; one that not too many want to be known; one that even murder cannot silence.

Ann Hite is simply the most  humble, talented author of our day.

Congrats, Ann!

Thomas Nelson, who was acquired by Harper Collins, has acquired the third novel in the Confessions of April Grace series, Chocolate-covered Baloney! Who wouldn’t fall in love with sweet but sassy April Grace Riley? She is the Nancy Drew/Pippy Longstocking for the teens of today.

The second in the series, Cliques, Hicks, and Ugly Sticks! has positioned itself and its predecessor, In Front of God and Everybody on the Accelerated Reader List and hit the bestseller list for the Christian Booksellers Association (CBA) for January 2012.

April Grace is a Rock Star!

Congrats, KD!

KD McCrite has sold her manuscript to Mitchell Morris Publishing and Eastgate Church Keeps On Singing will now be our new “Murder She Wrote”.

Eastgate Church Keeps On Singing has Carrie Lockwood as the Assistant Pastor and the “Jessica Fletcher” of Eastgate Church of Hazelray, Missouri.

When Carrie and her husband go to New Mexico for a long awaited vacation, the secretly appointed choir director is found in the choir loft with his face smashed in. Concerned about her parishioners, Carrie cuts her siesta short and flies home to unravel a complex chain of events that uncovers much more about her flock than she ever imagined. Ten steps ahead of her twin brother, the police chief, she solves the mystery and puts the puzzle together. Who did it, and how, will show you why Eastgate Church will keep on singing.

Eastgate Church Keeps on Singing is the first in the series with Eastgate Church Eats Its Heart Out, Eastgate Church Pushes Up Daisies, Eastgate Church Cleans Up, Eastgate Church Barks Up The Wrong Tree,  Eastgate Church Comes Home To Roost coming in one after another.

Yipee! KD!