Author Rusty Whitener's A Season of Miracles: A Novel gains double recognition from the Christy Awards.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 9, 2011 /
Christian Newswire/ -- This year's Christy nominations have been finalized, and Kregel Publications'
A Season of Miracles: A Novel (978-0-8254-4191-2, $14.99), by Rusty Whitener, made the list in both the Contemporary Stand-Alone and First Novel categories.
The Christy winners will be announced at the 12th annual Christy Awards Dinner at 6:30 PM on Monday, July 11, at The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, GA, during the 2011 International Christian Retail Show. The dinner will honor nine Christy award winners and feature screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter Randall Wallace as keynoter, with speaker and author Liz Curtis Higgs as emcee.
ABOUT THE BOOK: A Season of Miracles is a touching novel that takes readers down memory lane and into the deep south of the 1970s to a place where Little League is all that matters. The championship trophy is within reach, but not without the help of a mysterious boy named Rafer, whose special gift to the team is a lesson in God's grace. Based on an award-winning screenplay now in movie production!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rusty Whitener (DMin, Gordon-Conwell Seminary) is a novelist, screenwriter, actor, and pastor. His first screenplay, Touched, won second place at the Los Angeles Movieguide Awards (2009 Kairos Prize) and first place at the Gideon Film Festival. A lifelong baseball enthusiast, Rusty and his wife Rebecca live in Pulaski, Virginia, where he writes a weekly column for The Pulaski County Patriot. Find out more at
www.rustywhitener.com.
REVIEW COPY & INTERVIEW REQUESTS
To coordinate interviews with Rusty Whitener, or to request review copies of
A Season of Miracles, please contact Leslie Paladino by phone 616-430-0423 or e-mail
publicity@kregel.com.
