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Homelanders Book 3 Rolls Out in Germany

March 24, 2013 News

Book Three in Andrew’s popular Homelanders series of thrillers for young adults has now been published in Germany. The book, published in the U.S. as “The Truth of the Matter,” was translated by Birgit Herbst and released by Thienemann publishers as “Todliche Wahrheit,” which means the deadly truth. The four book series follows the adventures [...]

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“Truth” Shortlisted for Fiction Award

October 3, 2011 News

The Truth of the Matter, the third installment in Andrew’s four-book Homelanders series of thriller novels for young adults, has been short-listed for the 2011 INSPY awards in the category “Young Adult.”  The INSPY website describes the awards as “The Bloggers Award for Excellence in Faith-Driven Literature.”  Says the site, “Recognizing the need for a [...]

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TeensReadToo Loves Long Way Home

February 15, 2011 Books

The excellent young adult book website TeensReadToo has given five stars and a Gold Star Award to The Long Way Home, book two of what will ultimately be my four book Homelanders series of YA thrillers.   Three are out so far.  The Last Thing I Remember is number one; number three is The Truth of [...]

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Homelanders’ “Final Hour” on Amazon

January 18, 2011 Books

I just noticed you can now pre-order The Final Hour, the last novel in the Homelanders series, on Amazon.   Also, there’s a shot of the jacket art, which I think came out really well.   Pub-date is listed as August 2nd, so I guess there’ll be a bit of a wait before delivery.

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Truth Debuts on ECPA List

December 7, 2010 News

The Truth of the Matter, the third novel in Andrew’s “Homelanders” series of thrillers for young adult, has come on the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s Bestseller list for December.  The novel came on the ECPA 20-title YA list at 14.  This is the first list available since the book’s publication last month.

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Me Double Header at Books and Culture

November 24, 2010 Culture

The Christian cultural review Books and Culture has for the first time covered the same author in two consecutive podcasts–and the author happens to be me. Here are host Stan Guthrie and B & C editor John Wilson discussing The Identity Man. And here they are discussing the “powerful” new Homelanders novel, The Truth of [...]

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My Extraordinary November

November 9, 2010 Books

There’s usually a book of mine or a magazine or two on the mantelpiece above my fireplace.   I put up my most recent publication and then put it on a shelf somewhere when something else comes out to replace it. This November, however, has been so extraordinary, the mantle is jam-packed.  Reading from left to [...]

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The Toy Story 3 Election

November 1, 2010 Culture

Here’s me in Tuesday’s LA Times on why the massive success of Toy Story 3 should’ve warned Democrats they were on the wrong track: If indications hold true, voters Tuesday will deliver a powerful rebuke to the Obama administration and its plans to transform America. Also, “Toy Story 3″ will come out on DVD. These [...]

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“Homelanders” Goes Audible

October 19, 2010 News

Andrew’s Homelanders series of young adult thriller novels will become downloadable audiobooks at Audible.com.  The third in the four-book series, The Truth of the Matter, is published by Thomas Nelson November 2.  Joshua Swanson will voice the series for Audible.  Joshua has won an Audiofile Earphones award for his narration work, and has recently finished work on [...]

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The Third Homelanders Scheduled

July 20, 2010 News

November will be a two book month for Andrew.  Thomas Nelson publishers have scheduled The Truth of the Matter, the third book in the young adult Homelanders tetralogy, for a November 2nd pub date.  The Identity Man, Andrew’s next thriller for adults, is scheduled for November 11 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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