News for August

Congratulations to our members on their achievements!

• Sami Abrams signed a 4-book contract with Love Inspired Suspense.
• Confessions to a Stranger, book one in Danielle Grandinetti’s Harbored in Crow’s Nest series, won 2nd place in the Daphne du Maurier Awards in the historical romantic mystery/suspense category.
• Karin Beery’s 2024 release, Finally Forever, won the 2024 Christian Market Book Award for Romance Novel of the Year.
• Meghann Whistler’s new book, Their Unlikely Protector, hit the Publishers Weekly Mass Market Bestseller list.
• Justice Delayed by Sarah Hamaker won the Christian Market Suspense Book
  of the Year from the Advanced Writers & Speakers Association. One judge
  said, “It has complex, multifaceted characters, an irresistible plot and
  a surprise ending that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming.”
• Cindy Kay Stewart’s debut novel, Abounding Hope, placed 2^nd for Novel of the Year in the Christian Market Book Awards.
• Chris Maday Schmidt’s debut Love Inspired novel, A FATHER’S VOW (April 2024), recently hit the Publishers Weekly Mass Market Bestseller List. In addition, she just signed a contract with Harlequin to publish her second Love Inspired novel—THE FIRE CHIEF’S SURPRISE—in July 2025, which picks up in small-town Sweetwater where the first book began. 
• Jo Ann Brown Ferguson has been offered an 8-book contract to write more Amish romances for Love Inspired.
• Lori DeJong just signed her third contract with Scrivenings Press for a new contemporary romance release in October 2025, with the option to become a three-book series.