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Deborah Bedford is a career fiction writer who began her professional life as a journalist in a Colorado mountain town. Deborah and her husband, Jack, have two children and live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. About HIS OTHER WIFE: New York Times bestselling author Deborah Bedford sweeps readers into this compelling drama with her trademark style of beautiful, lyrical writing. Since her divorce from Eric, Hilary has done everything she can to control life for herself and her son. Beneath a calm surface, she is terrified of failing Seth. She's worked hard to raise him on her own, and she's succeeded--he's now set to graduate from high school and enroll at the University of Illinois with a full scholarship. But Hilary's worst fears are realized when there is a rock-climbing accident at a post-graduation campout. A young girl is hurt, and Seth is arrested. Pamela, Eric's new wife and Seth's stepmother, blames Hilary for letting Scott go to the campout in the first place. With Seth's college scholarship now just a distant memory and his entire future at stake, the two women must come together for Seth's sake. Is Hilary's love strong enough to save her son and release him to her ex-husband's other wife?

Michael Phillips has been writing in the Christian marketplace for 30 years. All told, he has written, co-written, and edited some 110 books. Phillips and his wife live in the U.S., and make their second home in Scotland. About ANGEL HARP: Forty-year-old widow Marie Buchan decides to have an adventure and plans a summer in Scotland, unexpectedly ending up at the center of a passionate love triangle.

Please join us as we talk with Daniel Harrell, author of HOW TO BE PERFECT: One Church's Audacious Experiment in Living the Old Testament Book of Leviticus. Daniel M. Harrell is senior minister of Colonial Church in Edina, Minnesota. For 23 years he served as a minister at Park Street Church in downtown Boston. He is the author of Nature's Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Leadership Journal, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, and Regeneration Quarterly. He holds a PhD in developmental psychology from Boston College and has lectured at Fuller Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Gordon College, and Boston University. You can find him online at http://www.danielharrell.com

Please join us as we chat with Jill Kelly, author of WITHOUT A WORD. Jill Kelly is the wife of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly. In September 1997, three months after their infant son, Hunter, was diagnosed with a fatal disease called Krabbe Leukodystrophy, Jim and Jill founded the Hunter's Hope Foundation. As chairman of the board of Hunter's Hope, Jill helps children suffering from Leukodystrophy and their families by raising awareness and research funds to fight this devastating disease. She and Jim live in Buffalo, NY, with their two daughters and three dogs.

Journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in WHAT GOOD IS GOD? concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; on the Virginia Tech campus soon after the massacre; an AA convention; and even to a conference for women in prostitution.

Jonathan Merritt is the author of Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet. He is a faith and culture writer who has published over 100 articles in respected outlets such as USA Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Relevant magazine. As a respected Christian voice, Jonathan has been interviewed by numerous media outlets such as ABC World News, NPR, The New York Times and The Washington Post. www.jonathanmerritt.com

We're chatting live with Karen Kingsbury about her MIRACLES devotional. Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is America's #1 inspirational novelist. She's written more than forty novels, ten of which have hit #1 on bestseller lists. Her Center Street novel, This Side of Heaven, stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks. She lives in Washington State with her husband, Don, and their six children, three of whom are adopted from Haiti. www.karenkingsbury.com

Here's your chance to discuss A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions with authors, Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley. In A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE, husband and wife team: Katharine Hayhoe, a geo-scientist and Andrew Farley, a evangelical pastor confront Christians with the truth about global warming. Visit http://climateforchangethebook.com for more information and resources on what you can do to save the Earth. Submit your questions: http://snurl.com/t2sey

Joyce Meyer, a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy inspirational books. She has also released thousands of audio teachings as well as a complete video library. Joyce's ENJOYING EVERYDAY LIFE television and radio programs are broadcast around the world, and she travels extensively conducting conferences in the US and abroad. Joyce and her husband, Dave, are the parents of four grown children and make their home in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit her website at www.joycemeyer.org. Joyce Meyer is not satisfied with the status quo. She believes that we each need to become a revolutionary and practice love every day. And if Joyce has her way, the revolution will spread - person by person, house by house, town by town, until the old culture of selfishness and greed gives way to a new culture of concern for others. ...

Born in Knoxville, TN, Travis Thrasher knew in third grade he wanted to be a writer and wrote his first novel in ninth grade. Tyndale House Publishers signed his first novel, THE PROMISE REMAINS, which released in 2000. GHOSTWRITER is Travis's eleventh published novel. He and his wife, Sharon, live with their daughter in Chicago, IL. GHOSTWRITER is the story of a mystery writer stricken by a paralyzing case of writer's block and a looming deadline. He makes a choice that he will live to regret (or will he?)

Chat live with Shelley Adina, author of the All About Us series and Anne Dayton & May Vanderbilt authors of the Miracle Girls series.

Bonnie St. John is one of the nation's leading inspirational speakers and has been featured on the Today Show, Montel Wiliams, CNN, Good Morning America, as well as People magazine, the New York Times, Essence, and many others. Despite the amputation of her leg at age five, she became a silver and bronze medalist in downhill skiing in the 1984 Paralympics at Innsbruck, Austria. She went on to graduate from Harvard University, win the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and was appointed to the White House National Economic Council. In Live Your JoyBonnie admits that she's not able to live her joy every minute of every day. But she does so now more often than she used to. And, more often than she used to, she feels love from others, feels compassion in painful situations, and lives more fully and joyfully.

Your chance to ask questions of the author of the #1 bestseller THE SHACK. Young writes "The Shack was a story written for my six children, with no thought or intention to publish. It is as much a surprise to me as to anyone else that I am now an ‘author’. Overall, I am a very simple guy; I have one wife, six kids, two daughter-in-laws and two grandkids on the way. I work as a general manager, janitor and inside sales guy for a friend who owns a small manufacturers rep company in Milwaukie, Oregon, and I live in a small rented house in Gresham, Oregon, that Kim has made into a marvelous home.." Preference for interview questions will be given to Youth Ministers and/or Pastors. But is open to all callers.

Call in for your chance to ask questions of master storyteller Travis Thrasher. His new novel ISOLATION is so gripping it cannot be put down. A former publishing executive, Travis Thrasher is the author of 11 novels. "So, how does Christian Horror actually work? I’m not really sure, but fiction writer, Travis Thrasher, has successfully figured out the formula. In his newest novel, Isolation, he’s combined christian faith with a stephen king-esque setting to explore what happens to your psyche when you are in the midst of a spiritual attack and what it takes to recover from this attack. The result is one of the most horrifying novel I’ve read in a long time." -OldMustyBooks.com

Life Is a Test By Esther Jungreis - For over forty years, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis has been a globetrotting spokeswoman for Judaism. Whether counseling a searching soul or addressing a packed house in Madison Square Garden, her message is elegantly universal, while simultaneously addressin