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"I feel strongly that Christians mustn't delegate the telling of love stories to unbelievers. It's our birthright. Love is our message."

"My main character is a Christian, so I made sure her relationship with the Lord was a part of her decision-making processes."

"I think it's a meatier book and I hope that the audience can find something in it that they can identify with wherever they're at in life."

A weekly webcomic doesn't just ask the question 'what's so funny about church'''it answers it.

Melody Carlson's latest novel for teens is The Jerk Magnet.

Mimi Pearson, director of FIRST Wild Card Tours, which uses blog tours to promote books, has started an independent press, FIRST Wild Card Press.

"I couldn't write a story without the characters' families somehow getting involved in the action. Family is very important to me."

'If we want to reach the world, TV and movies are two of the best ways to do that.'

"Ah Ruth! I love her because she struggles with some weighty issues'the loss of a spouse, an estranged child'yet she hangs onto a sense of humor that carries her through."

"I think many writers will agree when I say the stories often choose me."

"Sometimes the real persons are sort of like a character in one of my stories, other times a lot like a character, and other times I combine the traits of two people to make up one."