Big News #1 — ICRS in St. Louis!

Well ... the International Christian Retail Show (ICRS) has come and gone from my adopted hometown of St. Louis.

The amazing thing is that, thanks to Douglas Bond and P&R Publishing, I was able to step onto the floor of the convention, even if briefly.

Once I heard that ICRS was coming to St. Louis, I had dreamed of going and meeting a publisher, but knew it was next to impossible since I was unpublished.

You see, in order to go you have to be either a Christian retailer, a publisher, an invited published author, a supplier, part of the media, or an agent.

For me that meant: impossible.

So I had given up hope of attending, and instead considered paying to be at the Christy Awards banquet.

But excellent historical author Douglas Bond contacted me to see if I could setup some book signings for him while he was in town for the show. Doug and I had met at last year's Reformation Day Faire up in Peoria, IL, and he is a fellow P&R author with LB Graham.

And so I did, and by no effort of my own (honestly, I had tried this in January and had fallen on my face!), God setup two signings, and even provided Doug a telephone radio interview scheduled sometime in July!

And to say thanks, Doug got Ian Thompson, the VP of Marketing at P&R Publishing, to invite me out to dinner last Tuesday night. And Doug got me briefly onto the ICRS convention floor before we headed out, and so all I can do is marvel at God working on Doug's behalf... as well as my own.

So Doug and Ian ... thanks! It was an amazing answer to prayer for me, and I look forward to submitting Merlin's Blade to P&R sometime in the upcoming months.

More on that in Big News #2 ...

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