JocelynGreen.com Logo

RSS  |  Facebook  |  Twitter  | Contact

Wedded to War a Double Finalist in the Christy Awards

Sat, 2013-04-20 09:02 -- Jocelyn Green

Wedded to War, my first novel inspired by the first women nurses in the Civil War, has been named a Christy Award finalist in two categories: First Novel and Historical Fiction! The Christy Awards honor and promote excellence in Christian fiction. See the complete list of finalists here. I'm honored to be surrounded by so many other authors whose work I greatly admire, including Joanne Bischof, Laura Frantz, Liz Curtis Higgs, Susan May Warren, and more. If you're not yet acquainted with Wedded to War, you can visit the book's page on my Web site here or view the trailer below.

About the Christy Awards:

The Christy Awards are named for the most well-known title by Catherine Marshall: Christy. Catherine Marshall, writer of more than two dozen books and the subject of at least one biography, is one of America's most notable and bestselling Christian writers. Her readers around the world know Catherine as "America's most inspirational author," as described in The New York Times. More than 25 million copies of her books are in print. Nine years in the making and perhaps Catherines's best-known work, the novel Christy has more than 10 million copies in print and is estimated to have been read by more than 30 million people. The Christy Awards is proud to honor both the novelist and her novel through this annual award recognizing Christian novels of excellence. The Christy Awards were started In the spring of 1999 when nearly a dozen Christian publishers confirmed the need for establishing a Christian fiction award to recognize novelists and novels of excellence in several genres of Christian fiction. By late summer, ideas and planning had come together to launch The Christy Award, named in honor of Catherine Marshall’s novel and of her contribution to growth of the fiction Christians love to read. The Christy Award is designed to:

  • Nurture and encourage creativity and quality in the writing and publishing of fiction written from a Christian worldview.
  • Bring a new awareness of the breadth and depth of fiction choices available, helping to broaden the readership.
  • Provide opportunity to recognize novelists whose work may not have reached bestseller status.

WINNERS will be announced in late June.

Christy-medallion-300x300.jpg

Christy medallion

Comments

The Christy Award is one of the highest honors a Christian fiction author can receive for their work. Each year in mid-April the Christy Awards committee members announce the nominees for that year's Christian fiction awards. The winners are then announced in a ceremony attended by authors, editors, publishers and other industry insiders in mid-July.

Submitted by Audrey on
Congratulations, Jocelyn! I saw the list last night on another site and recognized your name. So excited for you!

Submitted by Jocelyn Green on
Thank you so much, Audrey!

I can see your love of history shine so bright even in this post! I never knew all that about the Christy awards! So neat to get to read about their beginnings. Well I am just cheering you on and so proud of you and your beautiful book and so proud and happy for all of the finalists. Congratulations, my friend!!

Submitted by Jocelyn Green on
Hi Joanne, so happy to see you here! (For anyone eavesdropping, Joanne Bischof is one of my favorite authors, so go buy her books! You can thank me later.) Did you ever read Christy, or watch the TV series growing up? I loved it. Couldn't decide whether I wanted Christy to end up with the doctor or the preacher. Decisions, decisions! ;) At least that one wasn't up to me!

Christy (released in 1967 ) is a historical fiction novel by Christian author Catherine Marshall set in the fictional Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee , in 1912. The novel was inspired by the story of the journey made by her own mother, Leonora Whitaker, to teach the impoverished children in the Appalachian region as a young, single adult. The novel explores faith and mountain traditions such as moonshining , folk beliefs and folk medicine . Marshall also made notes for a sequel, never published, which were found by her family some 34 years later.

When Catherine Marshall penned the first line of Christy some forty years ago, she couldn’t possibly have known that an estimated 30 million people would read it. Christy was in Marshall’s words “a story I have always wanted to write.” Based on the real-life experiences of her mother and nine years in the writing, the novel was originally published by McGraw Hill in 1967. With more than 10 million copies in print, Christy is considered a landmark title in Christian publishing, but especially in Christian fiction. In a time when this genre was almost nonexistent except for the occasional Biblical epic, Christy tells the story of nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston who travels to backwoods Cutter Gap, Tennessee to teach children in a mission school. Naive and inexperienced, her trials and triumphs fill nearly 500 engaging pages. Regrettably, Marshall (who died in 1983) never lived to see her novel come to life on the small screen.

Add new comment

This will not be displayed to the public or used for marketing - just for claiming giveaways.