Competitions and Awards
Xulon authors have been featured on CNN, FOX News, Focus on the Family, Time Magazine, Christianity Today, Charisma, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and hundreds of other newspapers, radio programs, and TV programs. This page is where we spotlight such publicity. We also "spider" this information all over the web so it's easy to find! If you're a Xulon Press author and you'd like us to spotlight a recent publicity event or book-signing, please Click here.
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Xulon author Doug Giles interviewed LIVE on FOX News!
Congratulations to Xulon author Doug Giles who hits the airwaves – again! Doug was invited to appear on live interviews on FOX News twice in the same week. After a string of successful radio interviews, Giles sat down with Fox & Friends to discuss the rise of a feminist agenda in religion and churches across the country. With the interest generated by this exposure, Doug is now being invited to speak on television and radio regularly. Doug has published 3 books with Xulon Press including his latest book, The Bulldog Attitude, which is endorsed by Col. Oliver North and by R.C. Sproul. Just a few years ago Doug was a little known pastor in South Florida. Now with the help of Xulon Press he’s become a nationwide voice and recently signed a contract with a large publishing company.
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Reader's Choice Awards Lineup Includes Xulon Title
The staff at Author Island was so impressed with Susan Kaye Behm's story about understanding abuse victims that they dubbed The Journey a finalist in the 2006 Reader's Choice Awards for women's fiction. The finalists, from which winners will be selected in July, include an impressive lineup that runs the genre gamut from horror to suspense and science fiction. Says Behm of her book, "If you have not been abused, you owe it to take yourself out of your sheltered life and experience the terror that over 1.5 million children in the United States go through each year. [My book] will help you to understand abuse victims and give you a new resolve to help those who have suffered abuse."
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Stellar Reviews, PR Write-up, and Awards for Xulon Author
Whatever Xulon author Robert Hammond has been doing to promote his book, it's working. The tenacious author of Grace Period: The Awakening of Abel Adams used his pen to detail a story of one man's deliverance from a labyrinth of crime, cults, and incarceration, and to witness the triumph of truth over falsehood and rejoice in the discovery of love through the power of faith. One thing Hammond certainly is enjoying right now, aside from the power of faith, is the fruits of his labor. A slew of interviews, book signings, and critical praise were eclipsed only by a recent nod from the Indie Excellence Book Awards 2007, which placed his book as a finalist in both their "religious fiction" and "African-American fiction" categories.
Now that Hammond's demand as a writer is red-hot, several stations have been eager to book him on their show. "The Big Finale" program, hosted by Bruce Collins, sat down recently with Hammond for a chat about Abel Adams, and Collins has promised a review of his novel to AmericanChronicle.com, WorldSentinel.com, and raidersnewsnetwork.com. The interview is located at www.radiohaven.net.
Additionally, Hammond's book landed him a stellar press release and critical acclaim from Debra Gaynor of ReaderViews. The website's Tyler R. Tichelaar also sat down for an interview with Hammond to discuss Abel Adams, the Bible's influence in Western literature, reader responses, and upcoming projects. Throughout the course of the chat, Hammond revealed his plans for a Grace Period screenplay and another screenplay he is working on titled Black's Law. The full interview can be accessed at http://www.readerviews.com/InterviewHammond.html.
A currently featured book on ReaderViews.com, the book has received excellent reviews and article coverage as well as the release of a multimedia PreView (see www.readerviews.com for more information).
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Chapman Wins Big at Best of the Year Awards by Christian Story Teller
No stranger to extreme press, Australian author Bob Chapman has scooped up an award for his book, Extreme Lives for Extreme Times. The title won Best Inspirational Christian Living Award for 2007 at the Best of the Year Awards this month by Christian Story Teller. Says the exuberant author, "Christian Story Teller and its board of advisors announced their choice of Extreme Lives for Extreme Times as the winner from among the biggest list of entries they have ever received!"
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Coveted Angel Award Nabbed by Father-Daughter Author Team
J.P. and Shannon Sloane's You Can Be a Virgin Again has taken home the coveted 30th Annual Excellence in Media Angel Award. The book is a companion workbook to The Christian Counselor's Guide for Restoring Virginity, which includes case histories, companion data, and scriptures to keep in mind in a virgin body. The father-daughter writing team couldn't be happier about brandishing their latest win, especially now that their book appears on Angel Awards' international website.
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Xulon Author Wins Big with 2006 National Best Book Award
Judy Azar LeBlanc took home the gold in the spiritual category at this year’s USABest Book’s National Best Book Award for her book, Many Faces to Many Places. The yearly competition, hosted by USABookNews.com—a premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses—recently announced the winners out of more than 1,200 entries. Winners and finalists included big-name publishers like Simon & Schuster and Warner Books, as well as hundreds of independent press titles.
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LeBlanc Guest of Honor at Literary Charity Event
Since winning USABest Book’s National Best Book Award in the Spiritual Category, Xulon author Judy Azar LeBlanc has seen her book go places—many places, that is. The acclaimed Many Faces to Many Places author was invited by the Business Journal of Phoenix to its first literacy charity event at the Phoenix Convention Center. To promote literacy, the media division of American City Business Journals invited more than 200 guests and four local authors to participate in a three-hour book signing.
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Title Takes Home the Gold a Second Time
According to New Book Reviews, Judy Azar LeBlanc's Many Faces to Many Places "shines like a diamond in a coal mine." Perhaps that's what makes it so attractive to award-givers, as LeBlanc has just taken home the gold for a second time. The book recently received honors as Best Inspirational Book of 2006 by NewBookReviews.org. It was selected from a large pool by editors and the reader base out of a number of criteria: writing style and professionalism, marketability, subject interest, reader's preference, and editor's preference. The book tells the story of a courageous spirit who, on a search for freedom, travels through the world of timeless knowledge. Ray Ward, editor at New Book Reviews, describes the story thus: "Very rarely a book comes along that impresses me with its wit, charm, and clarity in dealing with all the emotions, traits, and frailties of the complex animal known as human beings. LeBlancÉoffers insight and timeless wisdom into the art of living life to its fullest. Many Faces to Many Places is an outstanding, thoroughly enjoyable, and powerful book."
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Unsolicited Award Opens New Doors for First-Time Novelist
The Island of Marna, by Jamey Heit, has been chosen as the Princeton Seminary Mailroom’s book of the month. Past winners include Ann Waldron, a prominent East Coast author and scholar. Says Heit, “The fact that it was unsolicited took me completely by surprise. The committee heard about my book through the local press.” The book, which previously received praise from Richard Osmer, a Princeton Seminary professor, caught the eye of several youth pastors across the country who also contacted Heit about teaching his book in their youth groups. Riding the success of Marna’s award, Heit has two confirmed speaking engagements and is planning on scheduling more soon.
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Xulon Author Finishes First in Guild Awards
On April 29, 2006, Dr. Verna M. Linzey had a lot more than just the 100th Anniversary of the Azusa Street Revival to celebrate. The Baptism with the Holy Spirit author received the top award for best nonfiction book published in 2005 from the San Diego Christian Writer’s Guild.
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‘Midway’ Story Earns Writer Highest Award
The San Diego Christian Writers’ Guild awarded the 2004 Sherwood Elliot Wirt Award—its highest honor—to Captain Stanford E. Linzey Jr., Chaplain Corp USN (Ret) for his book USS Yorktown at Midway (Xulon). A survivor of the Battle of Midway, Captain Linzey tells the story of this most decisive Naval battle ever fought and won by the numerically smaller forces of the U.S. Navy.
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