2/11/2008
Fabulous February to all of you, dear Sisterchicks!
I'm catching my breath after an amazing weekend in Colorado at the Christian Writer's Guild "Writing for the Soul" Conference. The location was breathtakingly beautiful but what made the conference so wonderful was having the chance to meet so many writers and visit with friends old and new. If you'd like to listen to some of the workshops I taught or the keynote address from the banquet, you can order the CD or an mp3 of the talks at:
www.BestChristianConferences.com
On the gallery page I've posted a picture of me at the conference with my friend Sue, who is the editor at Zondervan for the new Katie Weldon book, Peculiar Treasures. We received a terrific review of the book on Publishers Weekly. I'll paste the review below. The book releases one month from today and I'm very excited about it!
May the Lord fill your Valentine's Day as well as all of February with hidden little reminders of His unending love for you.
Sending my love, too,
Robin
Publishers Weekly Review
Peculiar Treasures
Robin Jones Gunn, Zondervan, $14.99 paper (304p)
“Gunn has been writing about Katie and her friends for years, most notably in the Christy Miller series, and this is the first in Gunn’s Katie Weldon series. Katie’s dilemmas may seem like the stuff of unabashedly light fiction, but they aren’t without gravity and intrigue. Gunn is adept at denuding light fiction of its usual tics – mediocre prose, clichéd characters and predictable plots – and imbuing it with the hallmarks of literary fiction. The characters are multidimensional and ring true at nearly every turn. The dialogue that ensues is at once heartbreaking and utterly familiar to anyone who has ever been in Katie’s shoes. Moreover, Katie’s religious faith never feels sentimentalized or tacked on, but is integrated beautifully into the charming plot.”
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