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Week #1: Winner

Sorry this is so late . . . long story. For info on my 10-Week Book Giveaway visit Here.

It was a tough call since there were some really fun ideas in the comments. So I did a drawing, and the winner is: Terresa So, Terresa, email me at heather at hbmoore dot com and let me know which book I can mail you!!

Thanks for the great summer ideas for kids, everyone. Next Tuesday will be the next question. I'm sure that by the end of the 10 weeks, you'll all win :-)

10 Week Book Giveaway!!

Yes, really. It's the 2nd annual 10 week book giveaway to COUNT DOWN to the release date of Alma the Elder.

Each Tuesday for the next 10 weeks (starting today), I'll ask a question on my blog. All you have to do it answer in the comments and on Friday of the same week, I'll announce the winner. It will either be the best answer, or if there are several, I'll do a drawing.

The winner each Friday can select one of my books! Any book except for Alma the Elder--since it's not out yet (see books on sid

Teen Writers Conference

Instead of diligently going over my Alma the Elder proof, I thought I'd give you a 12-year old's view of the 2009 Teen Writers Conference (aka my daughter). Keep in mind these pictures might be a bit wacky.

Kara: Last weekend I went to the Teen Writers Conference with my mom. Well, I'm not quite a teen, but she said that I have the same attitude as one, so I could go. But she told me if I said, "I'm bored" once, then we couldn't go to the Real Salt Lake soccer game after and see David Archuleta.

Turned in

With summer in full swing, and my writing window minimized, I'm pleased to announced that the book I've been lamenting about over the past six months is finally turned in. For better or worse! I just hope if it needs more fixing, the readers and/or my editor will fill in the blanks. It's my first non-fiction book, tentatively called "The Women of the Book of Mormon." It's not long, maybe 80 pages, but took a lot of research.

Also, I just realized that in 11 weeks, Alma the Elder will be out. That

Release Date finalized!

Today I heard from my publisher and my next book, ALMA THE ELDER, will be released September 1, 2009.



Yay. I'm relieved to know when it will be out and now I can start preparing the marketing plan. It will be a little hard to market until I have the book cover, but since it will be going to press in July, I should have it in a few weeks.



In other news, my third book: Towards the Promised Land will be available in softcover next month (July 2009). The hardcover version is impossible to find. I'm ho

2009 Best of State--I made it!

Below is a photo-journal of the 2009 Best of State Gala, for which my Abinadi book won the Best of State Award for Historical Fiction.


My husband and I . . . all gussied up.

On the drive to Salt Lake, we drove through a major hail storm.

We finally arrive at the Grand Ballroom at the Salt Palace. We only had to drive around the block once to find the parking entrance. I borrowed the dress from G.G. Vandagriff! It worked out perfectly.

Posing by the Best of State statue. No one took this baby home (

Getting Close

This week I hope to finish the first draft of my non-fiction book: Women of the Book of Mormon.

I'm on the last chapter! Yeah. Now, for those who are not writers, this is just one hurdle (the biggest hurdle, of course). But there will still be a lot of editing to come. My critique group has read most of it, since I've taken sooo long to write it (nearly a year from when I first outlined it). But I will pass it on to a couple of readers and hope to turn it into the publisher by the end of June. Y

I Don't Believe It--2009 Best of State

Last night I was up way too late working on some things, but it paid off. About 11:00 p.m. a notice came in from the awards committee for the 2009 Best of State. I clicked over the the link to see if Abinadi had made the cut. The first name I saw was Annette Haws for Waiting for the Light to Change. "Oh well," I thought. "Good for her." She's won the AML and a Whitney Award with that book, so I wasn't really surprised. In the past, only two books, a non-fiction and a fiction have been awarded th

Book of the Month--When Hearts Conjoin

When Hearts Conjoin
By Erin Marie Herrin with Lu Ann Brobst Staheli
RPE Publishing, May 2009

“Some people believe angels are real. Some believe they walk among us. On August 7, 2006, on the fourth floor of Primary Children’s Hospital, angels were there to comfort me on the scariest day of my life.”—begins the remarkable true story of the conjoined Herrin twins in the long-awaited memoir, When Hearts Conjoin. The account of Kendra and Maliyah’s birth and subsequent separation has appeared in maga

Harsh Truth & Other Updates

I read a review of ABINADI that moved me enough that I wanted to post a portion of it here.

By Emily M. at Hearing Voices:

"One of the things I most enjoyed about H.B. Moore’s Whitney-winning historical novel Abinadi is that (and I will be blunt here) Alma the [Elder:] has nonmarital s-x (gotta foil the search engines and bowdlerize my post. So much for bluntness.).

This is not because I am a big fan of gratuitous s-x. On the contrary. I skip over graphic scenes, and I have been known to quit readin