Saving Cicadas releases today! Get the word out!

Saving Cicadas releases from the warehouse today!! This means the books are being loaded up on trucks at this moment and will soon be traveling happily to your local bookstore. It also means that if you pre-ordered online, say from amazon or christianbook, you'll have it, most likely, by this weekend.

The official publication date is December 1st, but for those of you in the know, it starts showing up a little sooner. Keep your eyes open for Saving Cicadas, a book that could be life-altering.

This is my fourth novel from Thomas Nelson, and I'm very excited about it. I can't wait to hear the discussions...it's certainly a conversation starter and would be great for Book Clubs! If you're one of the first ones to read and review Saving Cicadas, let me know here (leave a comment) and you just might win something.

Other ways to win...visit my website and enter the contest or enter to win on Goodreads.

God bless and happy reading!

Piccolo Spoleto event

I'm honored to be a part of this year's Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, SC. I'm kicking off the Southern Literary Festival tomorrow morning at the Charleston Library Society on King Street at 10:00 am. Other writers in the series are Cassandra King Conroy, Brett Lott, Ron Daise, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Janna McMahan.

Writing the Southern Family: A Legacy of Secrets, Silence and Spirituality
Join novelist Nicole Seitz in a look at the Southern family - what keeps it together, what tears it apart. She examines the families in her novels: what aspects of these families are "Southern" and what parts are universal? Learn why people love reading about Southern families and why there's just so much to write about. Nicole Seitz is the author of three novels, A Hundred Years of Happiness, Trouble the Water, and The Spirit of Sweetgrass. A native of the Lowcountry, Seitz weaves family, faith, and forgiveness into her novels. Trouble the Water, was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2008 by Library Journal. Her next novel, Saving Cicadas, will release this December from Thomas Nelson.

Charleston Library Society164 King Street, Downtown Charleston
SCHEDULE
5/28 10AM