Keeping up with Lutheran Writers Project authors
The
Lutheran Writers Project provides links to authors’
websites. We also share news of upcoming and recent books published by
Lutheran Writers Project authors, tour schedules, and events of
interest to our writers and readers.
The Lutheran Writers Project encourages churches, synods,
book clubs, schools, and colleges and universities to sponsor author
visits and attend local author events. We hope to take an active role
in facilitating these visits as our project grows.
Authors wishing to be listed here should contact Paul Shepherd at
paul@paulkshepherd.com.
Please note that this list is limited, intended to provide information
on authors of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry whose work is
published by selective presses. We are sorry that we cannot list
self-published books or books intended for specialized audiences, such
as single academic-discipline texts, romance/horror genre titles, etc.
the Writers
Founding Director of the Lutheran Writers Book Club, Mark Mustian, has sold his second novel to Putnam, in a very nice deal. Here’s the press from Publisher’s Lunch:
Armenian-American
novelist M.T. Mustian's THE GENDARME, pitched as The Madonnas of
Leningrad meets The Bastard of Istanbul, about a 92 year old
Turkish-American man suffering from dementia, who suddenly starts
having vivid dreams about his role in the Armenian genocide of 1915,
and of the young Armenian woman he fell in love with and spared -- and
how he sets out in secret to find her to beg her forgiveness, to Amy
Einhorn at Amy Einhorn Books, on an exclusive submission, by Scott
Mendel at the Mendel Media Group.
Since then, his agent has sold Spanish, French, Brazilian, Greek, Italian, and Israeli translation rights as well.
Walt Wangerin’s new book, I Am My Grandpa's Enkelin, which he shared with us at the Lutheran Festival of Writing at Luther College, is now available. Maya Angelou writes: “I anticipate pure joy whenever I see one of his works. I have never been disappointed."
The description on Amazon is:
Peas were the first to ripen.
We popped them from their pods
And dropped them, bump and tumble, in the pot.
This
original tale is told by a granddaughter (Enkelin, in German), looking
back in loving memory at all that her German-American grandpa taught
her. Grandpa shows his precious Enkelin how to live well - and at the
end of his life, he also shows her that death is not an end, but a new
beginning. Children will be fascinated by life on the farm, from caring
for horses to working together in the garden. Famed storyteller Walt
Wangerin will delight readers once again with carefully detailed,
beautifully woven prose.
Robert Schultz's The Madhouse Nudes, one of the Lutheran Writers Book
Club's first selected titles, has been reissued in paperback by Simon
& Schuster. His new work of nonfiction, We Were Pirates: Robert
Hunt--A Torpedoman's View of the Pacific War, will be issued by the
Naval Institute Press in Spring 2009. He is currently at work on a new
collection of poems, some of which are forthcoming in New York
Quarterly and Subtropics. For more information visit
www.robertschultz.us.
Barbara Crooker's new book of poems, Line Dance, was published by Word Press (Cincinnati) in January, 2008. She has many ongoing public readings and educational events; you can find out where she'll be next with this link.
Poet Jill Essbaum, who gave a raucous reading at the Called to Create conference, has been lately seen in obscure European locations, blogging underground rock star Nick Cave. Wild reading, if you like, at this site. And then there's the new book of poems she has out from No Tell Motel, Harlot. The editors of this website urge careful reading.
More Like Not Running Away, a novel by Paul Shepherd, Lutheran Writers Project founder, was the subject of a feature interview in Homiletics.
Check out Sustaining Simplicity: A Journal, a spiritual and practical story of discovering a simpler life, by Anne Basye.
A group of Lutheran Writers Project authors will be getting together at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Chicago, February 11-14, 2009. Check in on this website page for upcoming plans to get together.
Bestselling Christian romance author and speaker Gail Gaymer Martin has a website and blog where you can find upcoming news of her books and appearances.
Keep up with a busy reading schedule, new work, and news in general from Gary Fincke, prolific author of books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, at his cool website.
A number of Lutheran Writers Project authors have poems in a new anthology, Simul: Lutheran Voices in Poetry, edited by Mark Patrick Odland.
Poet and Christian Century poetry editor Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner teaches at Wheaton College. A list of her publications can be found here.
Lauri Anderson hails from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. He's published seven books of
fiction, and has been compared to Faulkner and O'Connor. He and his books have appeared on
national television in Finland. You can contact him at lauri.anderson@finlandia.edu. Check out his writing projects and those of others in the Finnish-American community at finnala.com.
Shirley Dyer Wuchter has completed three books,
arranging her late husband's sermons according to the seasons of the church
year. Sermons of Rev. Dr. Michael D. Wuchter, heard in parish and campus
settings, are now in print in collections for fall, winter, and spring. Growing in Christ, Shining Through the Darkness,
Uplifting Christ Through
Autumn, www.csspub.com
Wittenberg professor D'Arcy Fallon has a memoir, So Late, So Soon, about living in an isolated religious commune in Northern California.
