I just came across
Novel Crossing. Very interesting.
They placed
Trident's Flame among their novels and even gave me an author site:
Here is the write-up about
Novel Crossing on their About page:
Let’s say you are an avid fan of crafting with felt fabric (guys, if felt
fabric isn't your thing, and we assume it's probably not, than replace this analogy
with the analogy of your preference). You love the diversity of felt, how it
can be transformed into anything from a hair doodad to a Christmas ornament.
You are ready to start your next felting project, and you learn that a large
hotel is hosting a crafting convention, CraftCon 2012. You know that felt
crafts will be a part of this gathering—but you aren’t sure where in the
Sherahyiott Hotel to find your beloved art form. You spend hours popping in and
out of rooms, coming across needlework, knitting, chainsaw art, and origami.
You even encounter several
rooms where fabric arts are featured, but your beloved felt plays a small role.
The Sherahyiott employees are good intentioned, but host big conventions like
this every week and are unable to help you find what you are looking for.
Finally, you come across the felt crafts room at CraftCon, but it somehow seems
lacking and thin, a poor imitation of the art you embrace. Where is your
community?
Now imagine that you love Christian fiction, the beloved “felt” in this
story. And CraftCon is the Internet, an all-powerful tool that carries a number
of shallow buckets but doesn’t always offer the well of depth and engagement we
fanatics are searching for. This is why Novel Crossing, the Intersection
of Fiction and Faith, was built.
Publisher websites are excellent for featuring their titles and authors.
Book retailers have good, up-to-date, thorough book data and include reader
reviews.
Christian Fiction Online Magazine, Family Fiction, Title
Trakk and others have features and interviews of favorite authors. Shelfari and
Goodreads offer reader community options but cover all books and all genres. So
where can an avid reader of Christian fiction go to find all that, across all
publishers, at one Website? That’s Novel Crossing’s goal. Put yourself into any
of the following scenarios and see what Novel Crossing has for you:
- Want to find your favorite
Christian fiction author?
Currently 800+ novelists can be found on the Website, including
favorites Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, Jerry Jenkins, Ted Dekker, and
hundreds of others. More are being added each day. By visiting your Novel
Crossing author pages, you will find bios, photographs, and links to their
presence in the digital world, including Websites, Facebook, and Twitter
options. Authors are able to customize their own pages as well, giving them
ability to leave messages for readers, upload videos or new photos.
- Looking for a particular novel? Around
4,000 individual book listings are available to browse on Novel Crossing,
including titles both new and old, their authors, and their descriptions.
These books are published by Christian publishing companies, and we
exercise caution when adding self-published books so that the Novel
Crossing catalog will remain a trusted source of faith-based fiction.
- Don’t have a particular book in
mind? All titles are categorized into genres, and
featured titles can be found in those categories as well as through book
searches. Looking for romantic suspense that isn’t thriller-heavy? Come
take a look!
- Looking for Christian fiction
news and entertainment? Check out any of our featured
book reviews, unique-to-Novel Crossing author interviews, devotionals
from favorite authors, features introducing readers to new books, by genre
or topic, book club and librarian-specific elements.
- Want to create of bookshelf of
your favorite authors or get a recommendation for a next fantastic read? Novel
Crossing allows community members the opportunity to build “Read,”
“Reading,” and “To Read” virtual bookshelves, and offers suggestions of
similar books on the book item pages. As you add books to your shelf,
review books, and comment on features, Novel Crossing is better able to
connect you with authors and books you may love.
- Looking for the latest in book
trailers or author interview videos? Novel Crossing
features new videos weekly, drawing widely from the book trailers and
author videos that help connect a reader to a beloved author or series.
- Hoping to purchase a new novel? Novel
Crossing is not a retail site, but on any of the book pages there is a Buy
Now link that will take you to a variety of retail options.
- Can I write for Novel Crossing? Check
out our writer's
guidelines, where writers and reviewers can learn more about
contributing to the Website.
We may not be as colorful as avid felt crafters, but those who love
Christian fiction are passionate about books and authors that find ways of
combining story with the message of the gospel. Novel Crossing hopes to give
that community of fans a place to gather, encounter others with similar
passion, explore fantastic books and authors with tremendous servant hearts,
and much more.
