International Christian Retail Show Kicks off in St. Louis

Take a tour of the new and improved Ambassador International booth at the International Christian Retail Show! The show kicked off this morning and runs through Wednesday. Stop by booth 2010 and visit us if you are attending the show! If you’re not attending, be sure to enter our HUGE FREE giveaway! Our new division, Ink Swift, is giving away a free publishing package worth $995 and you can enter online at InkSwift.com.The winner will be selected at random here in St. Louis on Wednesday.

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Christian Small Publisher 2009 Book of the Year Awards

Small publishers step into the spotlight for the Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year awards. The awards are designed to promote small publishers and bring recognition to great Christian books. Check out the 2009 winners.

Want to be considered for this award? Enter now! The deadline is November 15, 2009 for titles published in 2008 or 2009. Christian book readers and retailers will be allowed to vote on the books they love in February and March of 2010.

There are eight categories for the award including Nonfiction Biography, Fiction, Nonfiction General and Children’s. To qualify the publisher must have annual revenues of $350,000 or less. The books must be Christian in nature and published for the Christian marketplace. Here are the full guidelines and here is a nomination form.

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Enter the Christian Book Giveaway!

In honor of our launch, we have set up the Christian Book Giveaway! Here’s your chance to win prizes valued at over $60! You could add several new titles to your Christian book library just by entering. Here’s how you do that:

1. Leave a comment. Be sure to include your name and e-mail address so we can reach you if you’re the winner.

2. Include your twitter address in a comment and start following Christian Publishing Tips on Twitter (@ChristianPubTip). If you’re the winner we’ll notify you through Twitter.

3. Spread the word about this giveaway. Leave us a comment with the link to your announcement or tell us how you spread the word. Make sure you include contact information in case you’re the winner.

4. Do all of these and you’ll be entered three times! Do two of them and you’ll be entered twice! Do one and you’ll be entered… once! We will conduct the drawing on February 1.

So what do you win? The first place winner will get their choice of three of the following new releases from Ambassador International. (The runner-up will win two books of their choice from the selection below.)

Esther: Reflections of an Unexpected Life

A remnant of Jews living in a heathen country . . .
A young orphan being raised by her God-fearing cousin . . .
A self absorbed king in search of a new queen . . .
A Jewish woman rising to the throne of Persia . . .
A book of the Bible which makes no mention to the name of God . . .

Random? Surprising? Chance? Maybe at first glance, but upon closer study of Esther’s life, you’ll find that nothing is unexpected to the God who knows the beginning from the end.

Through easily applicable Biblical truths, interwoven with personal and heartfelt stories, Jennifer brings a contemporary relevance to Esther’s extraordinary story. Join Esther on her journey to the throne of Persia and beyond. You’ll not only discover what powerful deeds God was able to accomplish through the unexpected turns that her life took — you’ll discover what He desires to do in the unexpected turns in your life today!

Knowing God Through Prayer

Knowing God through Prayer—the Plan Jesus Gave is a study of the world’s most famous prayer, the Lord’s Prayer (also known as the Model Prayer or Our Father), based on the premise that Jesus would not have told us to pray a prayer that didn’t work, but that each line of the prayer was meant to bring about answered prayer and real communication with God. Real-life examples of answered prayer illustrate the practical truths found in Jesus’ words. A Prayer Guide is included to “jump-start” the reader’s prayer life.

Songs of the Vineyard

This little book of meditations on Isaiah is about history: past, present, and future. It is about people, Jews and Gentiles, and it is about God and our relationship to Him. It is a book of judgment and apocalyptic themes as well as care and restoration. It is a book of facts and principles that can be applied to our lives. It is my hope and prayer that it will stimulate your heart, mind, and soul to seek out the Word of God to have an even closer relationship with Christ.

Time-Out for Tired Moms

Mom, Are You Tired?
Tired of Laundry!
Tired of Multi-tasking!
Tired of Boys Belching in the Backseat of Your Mini-Van!

Have you ever sent your kids to their rooms for a Time-Out and wondered…When is it MY TURN?! Well, Today it is finally Your Turn to GO TO YOUR ROOM! Time-Out for Tired Moms is a devotional that gives you the break from the chaos of kids that you rightfully deserve. Eight distinctive Time-Out categories highlight creative ways you can incorporate time-out into the everydayness of Mothering. Daily Devotionals lighten your load while drawing you closer to God, the true refresher of a Mother’s soul!

So sit back and enjoy!
Today Mom, it is finally Your Turn to GO TO YOUR ROOM!

Three Men of Destiny

They were a gallant and fearless trio of men, hewn from the same genealogical and cultural stick that was rooted back across the Atlantic Ocean in lowland Scotland and in north-east Ireland (the province of Ulster) a century and more before they were born as first American citizens in what was then the outer ring of the Western frontier.

The families of all three, folk with antecedents in lowland Scotland, had taken the arduous and dangerous passage across the Atlantic from Ulster in the mid-18th century in the daunting quest for freedom and a new life and opportunity in the American colonies.

How truly remarkable it was that from this momentous trail-blazing emigration journey, that within a very short period of time, the Jackson, Houston and Crockett names were being carved with enormous pride across this great expanse of land that stretches from sea to shining sea in the United States of America.

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