Congratulations to the Selah Finalists!

CHILDREN

Crystal Bowman, My Grandma & Me”(Tyndale Publishers)

Debi Toporoff, Who Parked the Ark? (Tate Publishers)

Jan Price Ward, Smokey and the Great Escape (Tate Publishers)

INSPIRATION & GIFTS

Debora M. Coty, More Beauty, Less Beast (Barbour Publishing)

Dianne Neal Matthews, Designed for Devotion (Baker Books)

Cindy Sproules, New Sheets; 30 Days to Refine You Into the Woman You Can Be (Lighthouse of the Carolinas)

CHRISTIAN LIFE (Double First Place)

Allison Bottke, Setting Boundaries with Food (Harvest House)

Anita Higman, Where God Finds You (Standard Publishing)

Kim Ketola, Cradle My Heart—Finding God’s Love After Abortion (Kregel  Publications)

Linda Evans Shepherd, When You Need a Miracle (Revell)

BIBLE STUDIES

Cheri Cowell, Parables And Word Pictures (AMG Publishers)

Pastor Jayamon Jacob, The Depth of Faith (Westbow Press)

YA FICTION

Eddie Jones, Dead Man’s Hand (Zonderkidz)

Diana Klingel, Cracks in the Ice (Write Integrity Press)

Lorilyn Roberts, Seventh Dimension (Create Space)

NOVELLA

Marianne Evans, Finding Home (Pelican/White Rose)

Anita Higman, A Merry Little Christmas (Summerside Press)

FICTION – FIRST NOVEL

Dani Pettrey, Submerged (Bethany House)

C. Kevin Thompson, The Serpent’s Grasp (Oak Tara)

Carole Towriss, In The Shadow of Sinai (DeWard Publishing)

Fiction—Contemporary

Ann Tatlock, Traveler’s Rest (Bethany House Publishers)

Dan Walsh, The Reunion (Revell)

Susan May Warren, You Don’t Know Me (Tyndale Publishers)

Fiction—Historical

Stephen Bly, Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot (Greenbriar Book Company)

Dan Walsh, The Discovery (Revell)

Susan May Warren, Baroness (Summerside Press)

Fiction—Romance

Lena Nelson Dooley, Mary’s Blessing (Realms)

Rachel Hauck, The Wedding Dress (Thomas Nelson_

Jillian Kent, Chameleon (Realms)

Fiction—Suspense

Lynette Eason, When a Heart Stops (Revell)

Ronie Kendig, Firethorn (Barbour Publishing)

Lorena McCourtney, Dying to Read (Revell)

The SELAH AWARDS are open industry wide to authors published by traditional and nontraditional publishing houses within the previous year. The awards will be given during the awards banquet held on Wednesday evening, May 22, 2013 at 8:00 pm Eastern Time. 

Thanks to the generous support of Crossbooks and LifeWay/Ridgecrest the banquet will be telecast live over the Internet. To access the live stream during the awards banquet, click on http://ridgecrestconferencecenter.org/christian-writers-live. For more information, e-mail Eva Marie Everson at BlueRidgeCWC (at) aol (dot) com.