tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80352034505503538262011-10-07T17:37:57.546-07:00Award-Winning Authors / IllustratorsThe Miller Brothershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00861708875134188719noreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-5364661818516086162011-07-14T00:18:00.001-07:002011-07-14T14:38:34.303-07:00

Last week, on the 4th of July, we celebrated the 235th anniversary of the birth of the United States of America. But what exactly were we celebrating? Was it merely the beginning of a Revolution, the founding of a new nation, or was it, perhaps, something more...an experiment in governance whose impact would change the way the world perceived both nations and kings?At the very heart of July 4th

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A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending an early screening for the latest Narnia movie - Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Knowing that the film is being released this weekend, I am anxious to share my thoughts about the film with you in time for you to make your holiday movie going plans.Dawn Treader has always been one of my favorite books in the Narnia series (alongside Magician's

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Lately the Miller Brothers have been feeling a bit "blue". Not because they are sad, and it's not because they are HUGE Seahawks fans spreading team spirit, and they didn't lose a bet or anything like that. It's because their friend Brock Eastman has received his first book publishing deal. His 5-book series The Quest for Truth, will be released by P&R Publishing starting with the first book "

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Remember last year when Hunter Brown's first adventure was in the running for the prestigious Clive Staples Award (named after CS Lewis) for the best Christian Speculative Fiction book of the year? Well, now our second Hunter Brown book (Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire) has been nominated as well and it's up to you to help it rise to the top this year. Read on...First off, we consider it a

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We've been monitoring our Amazon.com sales rank recently and noticed something peculiar. From the data we've gathered some of the bestselling authors in our category are just over one-hundred copies ahead of us in sales this month.This gave us an idea...(a pretty crazy idea that could potentially earn our book "amazon bestseller" status in our category)...but we need your help! It's only 3 steps

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Writing books can be an emotionally draining experience. With all that has been going on in our life this year, we've hardly had time to properly celebrate the most exciting news of all. As of last Friday (April 30) at 9 minutes before midnight, Hunter Brown Book 3 was officially sent off to the editor. Hip, hip, hooray!Early response from our publisher is that this is our best work yet.The book

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At least we only hope it is "growing up" and not "blowing up!"Many of the faithful fans of our books series website Codebearers.com have probably noticed we've had a few growing pains of late. Our most recent member count is 3,843 members (and growing!) The added activity has resulted in some rough stretches as our site has experienced some ups and downs.In response, we are embarking on an

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Each year, a select group of books are nominated by readers to receive the Clive Staples Award for Christian Speculative Fiction (Named for C.S. Lewis the famed author of The Chronicles of Narnia book series). This year, we are happy to announce that Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow has made the short list. There are 15 excellent books to choose from this year. It is truly an honor to be

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Our heads grew a bit today. It's not our fault...you can blame it on our publishers if you'd like. You see, it was their idea to submit our books to these silly award things that nobody wins. We tried to warn them - award winning authors are not just a dime a dozen and even though you believe in us...we're just not THAT good.Boy were we wrong.Early this morning we received a giggly phone call

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Hey guys, Spirit 105.3 is doing a radio advertisement for our latest book Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire. It's part of their new "book club" promotion and they are looking for reviews from people who have read it. Post your comment on the Spirit1053.com website to help tell others about the book too.http://www.spirit1053.com/familyfun.php?articleID=199

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WIN ONE OF THREE COPIES OF CHUCKS BOOKS...WATCH THE SHOW TO FIND OUT HOW!Today we're honored to have author of the Kingdom Series and the Knights of Arrethtrae join us for our LIVE webcast (3pm PST, 6pm Eastern). Chuck Black is joining us via chat as well as a prerecorded in-studio video interview we made with him this past Saturday.If you've yet to read Chuck's work you are in for a treat. Join

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Hip-hip-hooray! The first shipment of Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire has arrived at the publisher's shipping dock today. As you can see, they are going fast. A few sneaky employees got their hands on their copies a few weeks early. Don't worry, you can still pre-order your autographed copy TODAY for only $9.99 (with purchase of medallion) by visiting www.MillerBrothersBooks.com or direct

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-44106263749768690392009-07-24T09:59:00.000-07:002009-07-24T15:47:06.647-07:00

So, I'm a huge fan of the Peter and the Starcatcher series. The books were co-authored by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and are nothing short of amazing. After all, co-authored books ROCK! Okay, so the first three books are listed below and if you haven't yet read them start them right away. You'll be glad you did. (Besides, it will help you pass the time until our next Hunter Brown book comes

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Today, Wednesday July 22nd at 3PM we begin our Weekly Webcast Wednesday program on MillerBrothersBooks.com. We'll celebrate Allan's Birthday (a day late) and talk about the new book coming out on 9-9-09. Join the conversation via live chat and we'll look forward to seeing you there. Just visit http://www.MillerBrothersBooks.com and click on the Video Chat tab to join in. It's that simple.See you

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We were honored today to hear that Focus on the Family has recently chosen our children's book "The Legend of Ten-Gallon Sam and the Perilous Mine" as one of their top ten Family-Friendly Books of 2008. For those of you who are not familiar with our children's books you can read more about them by visiting the http://www.heroesofpromise.com/ website or read the review on Focus on the Family's

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Our author friend Bryan Davis is meeting with a major motion picture company in 45 min about distributing a film adaptation of his book series Dragons in Our Midst. Please pray for him and his producer as they pitch the storyboards (which, by the way, look amazing).

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-59816202709281552502009-07-10T16:57:00.000-07:002009-07-10T17:02:32.097-07:00

Fellow Codebearers, the next level of the online game is now active. It is called "The Chamber" and it takes the book codes to a whole new level.Visit www.Codebearers.com today and try your hand at it now.

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GIVEAWAY!! A fellow blogger is giving away the first book in the Passages series by Paul McCusker, Darien's Rise. Contest ends July 30th. Click here to post and for rules for the contest.

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We had a great time at the block party tonight. Sold some books, got a tan, made some friends and even met a couple of budding and published authors who I look forward to chatting with again someday soon. Oh...one more thing...shortly after setting up our display Allan got stung right on the elbow by a rogue bee with a temper tantrum. It was a hit and run kind of thing...we never saw the bee

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-67018457072447901832009-06-22T15:56:00.000-07:002009-06-22T16:02:47.883-07:00

Join us on the air, July 11th 2009, for our scheduled interview with Bongo Rod and the Coconut Hut Radio Show. All we can say is that the interview is entirely unscripted and "a little bit nutty". If you've ever wondered what the Miller Brother's favorite junk food is, or how Chris Miller sounds with his nose plugged you might want to tune in.Visit www.coconuthutradioshow.com to listen live!

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-12598162951396623352009-05-15T02:54:00.000-07:002009-05-15T02:56:40.579-07:00

We released an updated homepage today on the www.Codebearers.com website. Included in the new homepage design is a sneak peek at some concept artwork from Book 2 in the Codebearers series (Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire). More changes to come soon, but hope this gives you something to talk about as we build up to releasing new content around the next book.

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That previous post was on April 1st! There will be no animated Code"bears" series. All in good fun! Have a blessed week everyone...and keep an eye out for some more Codebearer challenges coming your way in the next few weeks. The next phase of the challenges starts soon!

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We're thrilled to announce that after months of pitching the idea of an animated series based on the Codebearers books, we've finally landed a deal with a major network! Of course, as with all TV adaptations, a few minor modifcations were required to swing this deal, but we still think the heart of it stayed true. In the end it boiled down to droping an extra "er" at the end of Codebearer to make

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After countless cases of Mt. Dew, Mocha Frapachino, Gatorade and Shaklee Energy Tea drinks (a.k.a. creative juice); after dozens of late-nighters, all-nighters and giant night-crawlers (a.k.a. "fangworms" in the book); after hours of blood, sweat, tears (yes, we did cry) and good ol' fashioned writing, rewriting and re-rewriting, Allan and I have at long last managed to put the wraps on the final

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-14979580847836784512009-03-19T22:24:00.000-07:002009-03-19T22:26:19.557-07:00

According to Technorati, Hunter Brown took the #1 spot as the most popular book on blogs today. Thanks to all who have been chatting about our book out there...please keep spreading the word!http://technorati.com/pop/books/

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A couple nights ago I spent several hours overhauling a standard book display to customize it with graphics for our Hunter Brown books. It was a fun project and the end result turned out alright. Let me know what you think. (Click the images to enlarge)The picture of the second Hunter Brown book cover is attached to the header with velcro so that I can remove it and replace it with whatever the

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Posting from your cell phone is fun! :-)

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I have to admit. Keeping up to date on my blogs and social networking sites has been a bit overwhelming at times. That's why I started looking for a tool that would allow me to better manage my time, by posting once to all of them.My search turned up several solutions like Fuser.com, Minggl.com and SocialMedian.com but none of them did exactly what I was looking for. I was about to give up, when

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I just joined the Ping.fm movement. I'm updating my blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter posts all from one place! Suh-weet!

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Okay, so we're long overdue for a blog update. I figured it should be an exciting one when at last it is time to post something. So...here it goes.Allan and I have been hard at work on the new Hunter Brown cover. After a multitude of choices for layout and colors we've finally found a concept that we like pretty well. Keep in mind what you are seeing is an incomplete concept (there are still

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Once again, we take an author to the brink of bewilderment with another spellbinding episode of "Ten Tough Questions" L.B Graham is the author of The Binding of the Blade, a five book epic fantasy series with P&R Publishing that began in 2004 and just recently culminated with the publication of All My Holy Mountain in 2008. The first book of the series, Beyond the Summerland, was a 2005 Christy

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Next up, in the hot seat facing the Ten Tough Questions interview is none other than Bryan Davis. Bryan Davis is the author of the best-selling Dragons in Our Midst and Oracles of Fire series, contemporary/fantasy blends for young people. His book, Eye of the Oracle, hit number one on the January 2007, Young Adult CBA best-seller list. His new series from Zondervan, Echoes from the Edge, debuted

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-7149875522399261092008-10-21T14:02:00.000-07:002008-10-21T16:01:48.828-07:00

Starting this week and every week thereafter (leading up to Christmas) the Miller Brothers have taken it upon themselves to post a new weekly interview with some of their favorite fiction authors. These interviews are meant to be tough - to cut to the heart of what these authors are truly about, why they write, and the nitty gritty of their lives. It is a series of ten questions designed to make

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-32616227403978967482008-10-07T11:22:00.000-07:002008-10-07T11:27:21.433-07:00

Day 2: Seattle, WAHaving been joined by the final two authors (Wayne Thomas Batson, LB Graham) we started the day off with a TV interview for TBN in Federal Way, and then raced back to Seattle for a booksigning, followed by another booksigning event in Enumclaw. It was a high octane day that kept us on our toes. At the end of the night, we all arrived back at my house (Chris) for a giant

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Day 1: Abbotsford, BC CANADAWe joined up with six authors for the first day of the Fantasy Fiction tour. It was a fantastic time.

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Some exciting news for all of you fantasy fiction fans out there. The folks at www.fantasyfictiontour.com have really hooked us up with some cool technology as we join their upcoming West Coast tour for select dates in the Northwest.You can watch each event on the West Coast Tour live right here from our blog! When we’re not on the air, you can catch re-runs from the daily video journals. Chat

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Following two days of sharing in the joy of the Fantasy Fiction Tour with Bryan Davis, Wayne Thomas Batson, Donita K. Paul and five other fantastic authors (check it out at www.fantasyfictiontour.com) you would think that we would be looking forward to a day off!No way! Even though the other authors will be making their way down the coast for the remainder of the tour, we have been working hard

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As part of our research for the development of Hunter Brown's second adventure (and the continuing saga of the Codebearers series) Allan and I decided to take a little field trip two weeks ago. We spent part of the morning and a couple hours in the evening exploring the Puyallup Fair. We were researching the fair for a very thrilling sequence in the next book. While we were there we found a

Christopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10107487965942831583noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8035203450550353826.post-25654477393429587022008-09-18T09:28:00.000-07:002008-10-10T09:27:15.744-07:00

It's true, and we need your help to post bail!A warrant for the Miller Brothers "arrest" has been issued by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). We'll be going to "jail" on October 9th - handcuffed and dragged away to serve our time. No doubt the press will be there in droves to watch us get hauled away to the slammer. However, if we raise our bail of $500 before the Lock-up, they promise to

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With the help of an emerging technology from Google called "Lively" we're taking our Author book tour to a whole new level. Introducing the Virtual Meet and Greet with Chris and Allan Miller (aka - the Miller Brothers). Through the wonders of 3D Technology you too can meet your favorite author duo live and (almost) in person. Couldn't make it to our latest event? Don't sweat it. Just check the

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Authors love to watch the Amazon sales rank and speculate what that means for their book sales. The problem is that in order to chart the progress of your book against other comparable titles you have to manually search and click on each title in Amazon and write down the sale rank. This is a time consuming and frustrating process.Luckily, you don't have to do that anymore.I just found a great

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Since we are still awaiting official celebrity endorsements for our book Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow we decided to make up a few of our own. Are they real? Absolutely not. Funny? We'll let you decide.------------------On the eve of his Republican National Convention appearance, presidential candidate John McCain is considering legislation that would require every American to read

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Some exciting news has surfaced for the Miller Brothers and you won't want to miss out!In July 2007, four Christian Fantasy/Fiction authors embarked on a journey that would make literary history, open doors for their beloved genre and spark the imaginations of readers and publishers alike. They called it the Fantasy Fiction Tour; four authors from four different publishers uniting together for

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After the recent Bigfoot hoax in Georgia I thought I had sworn off believing in the beast. But recently new evidence has caught my attention that perhaps it is actually alive and well. Just look at this interesting image below. Is it just me or is that our book the creature is holding? Could it be that Bigfoot actually likes to read fantasy fiction?

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The past month has been a whirlwind of events and appearances and (to our shame) we have failed to post a blog update in quite awhile. So here is a blog entry to catch everyone up with what the Miller Brothers have been doing.8/2: The VIP Pre-Release PartyWe hosted an exclusive event for members of our VIP club (join at Luminationstudios.com for FREE) and family and friends. It was an exciting

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Go Beaker Go!

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The last couple of weeks were a bit of a whirlwind. July 14th kicked off the annual ICRS (International Christian Retail Show) event in Orlando, FL. Each day was jammed packed full of meetings, interviews and book signings. Our enthusiastic publishers (Warner Press) pulled out all of the stops on our behalf and really made us feel like the stars of the show. For those of you who aren't aware of

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Book piracy is on the rise - publishers are getting worried their books will be next!At approximately 11 AM (PST) author Christopher Miller (the balder half of the infamous Miller Brothers team) received an unexpected and disturbing phone call from his publisher Warner Press. The news was not good. Apparently, the first shipment of the long awaited novel, Hunter Brown and

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You know, we don't talk enough about how great it has been to work with the staff at Warner Press. These guys are awesome and we wanted to honor them by sharing a photo of the team. Here they are today after having happily recieved our first shipment of the Hunter Brown novel (due in stores 8/8/08).

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Okay - here's the final version. Some people didn't like the symbols because it made them think of witchcraft or the occult. So, keeping in mind that we wanted a family friendly design that Mom's will buy for their kids...we opted to make a few changes to "brighten" the tone of the image without removing the drama of the image.Let us know what you think!If you really like it - you can now

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Allan and I have been working hard on the Codebearers website and marketing material. Very soon we will have some exciting things to show you - but first we have a work in progress to review with you. We need your feedback on this poster design we've been working on. Tell us what you think and we'll take it into consideration as we finish up the design. Make sure you post your response in our

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You may hate yourself over this. Take some advice... be sure and think before you answer. Then click on the "Result" tab. Have fun! Click here: How Smart Are You?

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A couple of years ago I attended my first ever Northwest Christian Writer's Association (NCWA) Writers Renewal. Back then, the conference was held at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) and the keynote speaker, Stephen Bly, reminded us to "seek first the kingdom of God". His teachings were never dull, always biblically sound and very encouraging. I am sure it was the combination of his teaching and

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A dear friend of ours sent me this picture today - thought I'd share it with the rest of our fans. Her mother says, "She just read til she was exhausted! :-) This is how I found her." Sweet, huh?We love you all and will be updating you with some exciting news very soon. If you have a fun fan picture - please forward it our way.God bless!

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We're inviting everyone to round up yer family and come celebrate 'Leap Day' with us for the release of our 2nd children's book: "The Legend of Ten-Gallon Sam and The Perilous Mine" (It's the story of Samson retold). The event will be "open house" style with light snacks and hopefully some live Western music as well. So, mozy on over to shoot the breeze with The Miller Brothers (Chris & Allan to

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As some of you know, the original release date for Ten Gallon Sam was scheduled for the 2nd of January. Unfortunately, the container that was being shipped from Singapore with our book on it was held by the FDA for a period of time in California. I guess they thought there were bugs on the container or something. Anyway, the good news is that last week we received word that our second book in

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There has been alot going on around here over the past month, which explains why our blog has been so silent. First things first...a novel was born. We have been in a whirlwind of creative writing and re-writing to complete what will become the first in a three-part book series coming your way next fall (courtesy of Warner Press). As a result, we have been busier than ever, neglecting our blog,

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Yesterday afternoon, as I was coming home from a lunch break I discovered a special surprise waiting for me at my front door. An overnight package from our publisher (Warner Press). I ran inside and Allan joined me for the ceremonial opening of the first copy of our second book in the Heroes of Promise series. This book is entitled, The Legend of Ten-Gallon Sam and the Perilous Mine. It was the

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Follow "Gid the Kid" from book to DVD movieSo just how exactly do you fund a DVD movie production?Traditionally, back in the hayday of direct-to-video releases (1990's), distributors themselves would pay a handsome amount up-front to secure distribution rights. From what we've learned about the market today, this is not so common. No, our route will have to be more of the private investment

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Follow "Gid the Kid" from book to DVD movie"Is this a movie?"That is the #1 question we are asked when people see our book, "Gid the Kid", for the first time.Those of you who know Chris and I are probably familiar with our long-standing affinity for animated films. It goes far beyond just watching them. Even as kids, we had set up our own "animation studio" with drawing boards and light tables

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[Allan writes:] Earlier this week, on Wednesday morning, Chris and I appeared as guests on a "live" international TV show called The Harvest Show. Our publisher, Warner Press, arranged to have us on the show for a 10 minute interview; even flying us all the way out to South Bend, IN! Wow!The 6+ hours it took to fly each direction were not particularily enjoyable, but our brief time on the "live"

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As part of our whirlwind experience at the International Christian Retailers Show (ICRS) in July, we were given the chance to record an interview for the show Deeper Living. This interview aired coast-to-coast on August 14th (check out their listed broadcast stations).You might think we were in some fancy downtown high-rise studio, but the truth is we were just in a conference room at the

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[Allan writes:] To quote a famous movie line: "Let's start at the very beginning. That's a very good place to start."Fairbanks, AK 1976-78 - Chris and I were born into a Christian bookstore. Well, we were both born in a hospital, but soon after our respective births were a part of running a Christian bookstore which our grandparents and parents owned and operated for 10+ years. That meant we got

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Good News, Gid Fans! Warner Press has approved our manuscript for the next book in the Heroes of Promise Series (Ten-Gallon Sam and the Perilous Mine). The story is based on the Biblical account of Samson, and deals with the concept of using your gifts to bless others and please God. After all, it's not the hat that makes a man, it's the heart!The book is scheduled for release January 2008 with

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Christian Retailing Magazine, one of the premier sources for christian products, spotlighted the anticipated release of "The Legend of Gid the Kid and the Black Bean Bandits" as its top story for the children's section. The magazine article has led to increased interest in the upcoming book series among christian retailers, who are the primary target of the magazine.The story was soon followed up

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