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Lynn Austin wins her eighth Christy Award Print Email
Written by Felicia Abraham   
Tuesday, 17 July 2012 08:52 AM America/New_York

Lynn Austin continues atop the Christy Award winners, winning her eighth in Monday evening’s event at the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Fla. Wonderland Creek (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group) won in the Historical category.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl took home the Visionary award for Veiled Rose (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group) after winning the First Novel category last year—a first in Christy Award history.

Ginny Yttrup’s Words (B&H Books), which she said told her “very personal story,” was a finalist in two categories and won in First Novel.

The other winners named were: Promises to Keep, Ann Tatlock (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); The Maid of Fairbourne Hall, Julie Klassen (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); The Queen, Steven James (Revell/Baker Publishing Group); Waterfall, Lisa T. Bergren (David C Cook; Wolfsbane, Ronie Kendig (Barbour Publishing); and The Amish Midwife, Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould (Harvest House Publishers).

Christy Award-winning author Liz Curtis Higgs emceed the event, while Allen Arnold of Ransomed Heart Ministries, but formerly with Thomas Nelson as fiction publisher, gave the keynote address, “Captured by Story: Unpublished Thoughts on Finding True North in a Changing Landscape.”