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Author Colleen Coble’s thirty-five novels and novellas have won or finaled in awards ranging from the Romance Writers of America prestigious RITA, the Holt Medallion, the ACFW Book of the Year, the Daphne du Maurier, National Readers’ Choice, the Booksellers Best, and the 2009 Best Books of Indiana-Fiction award. She writes romantic mysteries because she loves to see justice prevail and love begin with a happy ending.
2007 American Christian Fiction Writers Suspense Book of the Year Dangerous Depths, Thomas Nelson 2007 American Christian Fiction Writers Suspense Book of the Year Dangerous Depths, Thomas Nelson 2009 Booksellers Best Award Lonestar Sanctuary, Thomas Nelson 2009 Best Books of Indiana-Fiction Anathema, Thomas Nelson RECOGNITION 2007 American Christian Fiction Writers Short Contemporary Suspense Book of the Year, finalist Stormcatcher, Love Inspired Suspense
2007 American Christian Fiction Writers Suspense Book of the Year, finalist Fire Dancer, Thomas Nelson Alaska Twilight, Thomas Nelson 2008 American Christian Fiction Writers Suspense Book of the Year, finalist Abomination, Thomas Nelson 2009 Booksellers Best Inspirational, finalist Anathema General Information: Born and raised in the Midwest (Indiana), I grew up on a farm with horses, pigs and chickens. I had plenty of adventure–from being dragged by my pony to running my brother Randy’s motorcycle through a fence. Maybe that’s why all my stories have action and adventure in them. How I Started Writing: I think only God knows what really makes a writer. He gave me the upbringing I would need and the voracious reading appetite necessary to understand what makes a story. I remember the night I finished a book and told the Lord how tired I was of reading books that assumed He didn’t exist. I told God I’d do my best to write for Him, but He would have to open the doors. I waited and nothing happened. I couldn’t think of a thing worth saying. Then one night in August 1990 everything changed. My brother, Randy, the oldest of my three younger brothers, was killed by lightning on August 28, 1990. That tragedy showed me I didn’t have time to wait to do what God was calling me to do. During a visit to Wyoming to see where Randy had lived for a time, the first idea for a book came to me, fully conceived. I was working full time, so it took a year to write it. Then seven years to sell it.  In the years since then, God has been faithful, though the path has not been easy. Nothing worth doing is ever easy. God wouldn’t let me give up, and I like to think the struggle made me stronger. God has given me so much in my life, most importantly my great family, a loving church family at New Life Baptist Church, and my wonderful publishing family at Nelson Books.
My Best Life Now
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And our son married the perfect woman. Donna was well worth the wait. She brought two darling grandsons with her so it was double the blessing. THEN in Sept 2008, we were blessed with the most beautiful granddaughter in the world. Alexa is the light of our lives
