The Merchant's Daughter is $1.99! For a Limited Time ONLY

Hey, everybody! I'm excited to let you know that The Merchant's Daughter is $1.99 for a limited time as an e-book. So get it while you can! ALSO, The Healer's Apprentice is $1.99 for a limited time!




Please tell all your friends!

Shelbyville, Tennessee book signing and Medieval presentation

Hi, all! I'm doing a medieval presentation


and book signing at The New Covenant Christian Book Store in Shelbyville, Tennessee, at 12:00 noon tomorrow! Saturday, Oct. 8th, in honor of Christian Store Week. My very generous and helpful librarian from the Monrovia Library is accompanying me and providing a projector and screen so that I can have pictures. Yay, pictures!




A picture is worth a thousand words so maybe it will keep me from talking too much! LOL


Anyway, I'll also be signing copies of The Healer's Apprentice, so please come and see me!

The Merchant's Daughter is up for Book of the Month

Today the online ACFW Book Club is voting on my new book, The Merchant's Daughter, (and a slew of other historicals) for the January book of the month. If you are a member of the ACFW Book Club, you can go now to vote at this link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/acfwbookclub/surveys?id=2387975. (Please copy and paste because blogger is not letting me insert a live link.)

And if you are not a member of the ACFW Book Club, it's very easy to join. You can go to the yahoo groups website, groups.yahoo.com, and search for ACFW Book Club and click join. That's just about all you have to do. Then click where it says Polls on the left side and find the poll that was just created today, Sept. 19th. Or copy and paste the above link.

Thanks!!!

Also, miraculously, I am heading out to St. Louis on Wednesday for the ACFW conference!!! If you will be there, please look for me and claim your hug! I am so excited to be going. The Healer's Apprentice is up for a Carol Award, which is soooooooo sweet. Can't wait to see people and be with a bunch of great writers for four days! Woohoo!!!

99 Cent E-Books!

Zondervan is offering a whole list of their e-books for 99 cents, including The Healer's Apprentice. You can get them for your Kindle, your Nook, your Kobo, your Sony reader, and if there are other e-readers I don't know about, they should have them for 99 cents too! Here's the list of Young Adult books:
Vanished (Faithgirlz! / Boarding School Mysteries)
0.99

The Healers Apprentice
0.99

Beyond the Reflection's Edge (Echoes from the Edge)
0.99

Chosen Ones (Aedyn Chronicles, The)
0.99

Catwalk (On the Runway)
0.99

Starlighter (Dragons of Starlight)
0.99

Eternity's Edge (Echoes from the Edge)
0.99

Boyfriends, Burritos & an Ocean of Trouble (Real Life)
0.99

I Love You This Much
0.99

Always Watching (The Rayne Tour, Book 1)
0.99

Mixed Bags (Carter House Girls, Book 1)
0.99

Saint Training
0.99

Premiere (On the Runway)
0.99

On the Run (Elijah Project, The)
0.99

Sophie's Secret (Book 2)
0.99

Sophie's World (Sophie Series, Book 1)
0.99

A Horse to Love (Keystone Stables)
0.99

Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book (Real Life)
0.99

Stealing Bradford (Carter House Girls, Book 2)
0.99

A Girl Named Mister
0.99

Katy's New World (The Katy Lambright Series, Book 1)
0.99

Lucy Doesn't Wear Pink (Faithgirlz! / A Lucy Novel)
0.99

Jackson Jones, Book 1: The Tale of a Boy, an Elf, and a Very Stinky Fish
0.99

So go stock up on some good books! And please tell your friends!

Win the e-book of The Healer's Apprentice

Hey, guys! My friend, Carrie Pagels is giving away The Healer's Apprentice as an e-book. So if you have an e-reader and don't have The Healer's Apprentice yet, please go by Carrie Pagel's blog and leave a comment for a chance to win it!

I am working on the second round of edits of The Merchant's Daughter, my Beauty and the Beast story that comes out in November, and I am loving it so much!!! I love the changes we made. You're going to LOVE this hero! Guaranteed or ... I'll be really surprised! LOL!

Anyway, hope everybody is having a great weekend! Remember to check out Carrie's blog and her review of The Healer's Apprentice!

Vote for The Healer's Apprentice in a cover contest

The good news of recognition for The Healer's Apprentice has been coming fast and furious, and I almost forgot to tell you about a cover contest that The Healer's Apprentice is a finalist in. Check out the Cover Cafe Cover Contest where my book is in the Two-Image Cover category. The front and back covers are being judged. There are lots of Christian books in the contest, in every category except the Worst Cover category. Which is good, since you will have to vote in at least three categories for your vote to count.

So go vote on three categories, and don't look at the Worst Cover category. Those covers are really gross, pornographic, if you know what I mean.

Also, if you want to win a copy of The Healer's Apprentice, leave a comment all this week on Shannon Vannatter's blog, where Rose is being interviewed on what she thinks of love, men, and marriage--but this was before she met Lord Hamlin. ;-) Go check it out!

I'm a Christy Award Finalist!!!

In case you haven't heard me screaming and laughing the past three days ...
The Healer's Apprentice is a Christy Award finalist!!!
Here's the whole list of finalists from the Christy Awards website:

Contemporary Romance/
Blood Ransom

by Lisa Harris (Zondervan)
Indivisible

by Kristin Heitzmann (WaterBrook Press)
Sworn to Protect

by DiAnn Mills (Tyndale House Publishers)

Contemporary Series, Sequels, and Novellas/
The Reluctant Prophet

by Nancy Rue (David C. Cook)
The Thorn

by Beverly Lewis (Bethany House Publishers,
a division of Baker Publishing Group)
The Waiting

by Suzanne Woods Fisher (Revell Books,
a division of Baker Publishing Group)

Contemporary Standalone/
Almost Heaven

by Chris Fabry (Tyndale House Publishers)
Lady in Waiting

by Susan Meissner (WaterBrook Press)
A Season of Miracles

by Rusty Whitener (Kregel Publications)

First Novel/
Crossing Oceans

by Gina Holmes (Tyndale House Publishers)
Heartless

by Anne Elisabeth Stengl (Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group)
A Season of Miracles

by Rusty Whitener (Kregel Publications)

Historical/
Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther

by Ginger Garrett (David C. Cook)
For Time & Eternity

by Allison Pitman (Tyndale House Publishers)
While We’re Far Apart

by Lynn Austin (Bethany House Publishers,
a division of Baker Publishing Group)

Historical Romance/
The Girl in the Gatehouse

by Julie Klassen (Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group)
She Walks in Beauty

by Siri Mitchell (Bethany House Publishers,
a division of Baker Publishing Group)
Within My Heart

by Tamera Alexander (Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group)

Suspense/
The Bishop

by Steven James (Revell Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group)
The Bride Collector

by Ted Dekker (Center Street)
Predator

by Terri Blackstock (Zondervan)

Visionary/
To Darkness Fled

by Jill Williamson (Marcher Lord Press)
Konig’s Fire

by Marc Schooley (Marcher Lord Press)
The Last Christian
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by David Gregory (WaterBrook Press)

Young Adult/

The Charlatan’s Boy
by Jonathan Rogers (WaterBrook Press)

The Healer’s Apprentice
by Melanie Dickerson (Zondervan)

Motorcycles, Sushi, and One
Strange Book
by Nancy Rue (Zondervan)

And if that isn't enough, The Healer's Apprentice is a DOUBLE finalist in the National Readers Choice Awards! Check out the list of all the finalists.

My cup runneth over. It's truly a dream come true to final in the Christy Awards. I've been dreaming about it since I started writing, hoping to get a Christian novel published. I am so honored and feel so blessed. Thank you, God!!!

Annual Readers Luncheon at the VBC

If you live near Huntsville, Alabama, please consider attending the annual Readers Luncheon at the Von Braun Center for those who love romance novels. I, and a lot of other authors much more famous than I am, will be participating in a book signing at the end of the luncheon. Here's an announcement and information:

Registration is now open for the 14th Annual Heart of Dixie event, held at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, AL, on April 30, 2011, from 11am until 3pm.

Special guest author Kerrelyn Sparks will share her vampire world during the keynote speech, host a table, and sign books at this year's event. Attendees will enjoy a delicious garlic-free lunch and blood-stirring conversation with fellow romance readers and favorite romance authors including Linda Howard, Beverly Barton, Linda Winstead Jones, Peggy Webb, Rhonda Nelson, Lynn Raye Harris, Kimberly Lang, and Vicki Lewis Thompson.

HOD's Annual Luncheon also includes mysterious door prizes and celebrations. A book fair and autograph session with the attending authors following the luncheon is open and free to the public at 2pm. Profits from the book fair are donated to a local literacy charity.

Join us as we celebrate romance in all its spine-tingling forms! Registration is $25 and must be received by April 15th. Seating is limited, so register today. More information and registration forms can be found at www.heartofdixie.org or call 256-586-5962.

I will personally be giving away a copy of my book, The Healer's Apprentice, and a basket of "medieval" items. See you there!

Giveaways of The Healer's Apprentice!

If you don't have a copy of The Healer's Apprentice, or need a copy to give to a friend, there are two giveaways going on right now! One at Novel Teen, the group blog I do with some other Christian YA authors. Just leave a comment on my article, What Do You Crave?

And the other giveaway is on Jamie Carie's blog. So please go check it out!

Book Signing in Atlanta

If you happen to be in Atlanta on Monday, Feb. 21st, which is President's Day, please stop by the Buford LifeWay store in front of the Mall of Georgia. I'm having a book signing from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and then speaking to the book club that meets in the store that night at 7:30. Would love to see you!

Get Autographed Copies of The Healer's Apprentice

Want a simple, easy way to get personalized, autographed copies of The Healer's Apprentice? Do you have a special daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, hairdresser, pastor's wife, etc. etc. who would love to get The Healer's Apprentice as a Christmas gift? (Of course you do!) Well, I have good news for you! :-)

Here is the link to bookseller Roseanna White website where you can buy my book. Roseanna will ship the book to me, I will sign it and personalize it any way you want, and mail it to you. This is a limited time offer, only running through Dec. 7th, so hurry!

And it isn't only my book that you can order. This is an "online book signing event!"
There are almost 80 authors participating. So go to the site and check it out. You can search by author, title, or genre at the Christian Review of
Books and then follow the purchase links
to CrossPurposes Bookstore and buy autographed copies of each book featured. The authors will sign the books and ship them to the customers.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and here's to a very blessed and merry Christmas!

Radio Interview

You can listen to my interview by going to the website, www.meetinghouseonline.info and clicking on The Intersection Download Center and the blue letters that say Click Here. Then scroll down to where it says Melanie Dickerson and click on the speaker on the left.

Radio Interview and Book Signing

Today Faith Radio in Alabama will air a 15-minute interview with me sometime between roughly 4:30 and 5:15 p.m. You can hear it at 89.1 in Montgomery, 91.5 in Andalusia, 90.3 in Dothan, and a few other towns and frequencies in Alabama. More details can be found at the Faith Radio website. You can listen to the interview later, some time after it airs, by going to www.meetinghouseonline.info and downloading it.

This interview is to publicize my book signing in Andalusia this Saturday from 12:00 noon to 2:30 at Tabby D's Christian Book Store. I'm excited about going "home" and hoping to see some people I grew up with and haven't seen for ... a long time! There's also an interview with me in the Andalusia Star-News, which you can read by going to their website.

I'm very thankful to my Public Relations person, Candice, for getting me these "gigs" and to Zondervan for hiring her! God has been good to me. So far the sales for The Healer's Apprentice have been good. They even seem to be picking up on Amazon, so I'm very thankful!

Outdoor Festival and Book Signing in Birmingham!

Come to McCalla, Alabama (near Birmingham) for Brooke's Book Stop's authors and crafts festival. It's this Saturday, October 30th from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and there will be food vendors and a live band! Also, several other authors will be there, including Christian author Elizabeth White, signing her latest book, Tour de Force.


I will also be signing my book, The Healer's Apprentice. The owner of Brooke's Book Stop and her daughter have been promoting The Healer's Apprentice! I'm excited to get to chat with them. :-)

If you're in the Birmingham area this Saturday, please come by! It's at 5928 Old Tuscaloosa Hwy McCalla Al. 35111, beside Brooke's Book Stop.