2022 New Authors to You Challenge

[Loraine]

#36 Jessica FletcherDonald Bain

[Loraine]

#37 Jennifer Uhlarik
#38 Jennifer Youngblood
#39 Mary C. Jane

[Loraine]

#40 Bryan Chick
#41 Annie Adams
#42 M.D. Archer
#43 Jaime Jo Wright
#44 Carolyn L. Dean

[Loraine]

#45 J.J. Marsh
#46 Tasha Alexander

[Loraine]

#47 Susie Larson

#48 Hazel Gaynor

#49 Kelly Irvin

[Loraine]

#50 Erin Litteken

[Ana]

I'm raising my goal to Newsies 16-20 new to be authors

16. Marybeth Mayhew Whalen -
17. Beth Wiseman -
18. Debra Clopton -
19. Kristen Heitzmann -
20. Toni Shiloh -

[Loraine]

Good job Ana! Always fun to raise your goal.

[Ana]

Loraine wrote: "Good job Ana! Always fun to raise your goal."

Yes!! I’m glad I was able to do more than what I anticipated, and there’s still more time in the year so we’ll see how many I’ll finish with!

[Loraine]

#51 Jessica R. Patch -
#52 Rosalind Lauer -

[Ana]

I’m raising my goal again! Fresh and new- 21-25 new authors

21. Camy Tang -
22. Dee Henderson -
23. Pepper D. Basham -

[Loraine]

#53 - Susanne Dietze, Patty Smith Hall, Cynthia Hickey, and Christina Lorenzen

[Staci, Book Awards Specialist]

Lots of new authors (68!) read in 2022!

[Hanna]

At first I was unsure of whether I would make my 25+ new authors goal, but I made it at the end! Actually got 27.
1. Maria Trapp -
2. Lauren Compton -
3. Delia Parr -
4. Donna Lynn Hess -
5. Mark Zwonitzer -
6. Tracey Victoria Bateman, Pamela Griffin, Tamela Hancock Murray, and Jill Stengl (hold on--does this count for four new authors??) -
7. Robin Patchen -
8. Cathy Gohlke - Into The Starry Night
9. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
10. Thomas Hardy -
11. R.G. LeTourneau -
12. Francine Rivers -
13. Frank Lavin -
14. Jane Kirkpatrick -
15. Bruce Alexander -
16. Irene E Benson - Campfire Girls' Rural Retreat: Or, The Quest Of A Secret...
17. Edward S Ellis - The Daughter of the Chieftan (somehow this story, in the same book as the above, was not credited to Mr. Ellis ...)
18. Tamela Murray -
19. Kim Vogel Sawyer -
20. Mary Connealy
21. Michael Shaara -
22. Helen Keller -
23. D.E. Stevenson -
24. Siri Mitchell -
25. DiAnn Mills -
26. Heidi Chiavaroli -
27. Samuel Shellabarger -

While not all these made me want more by these authors (and some of these are just biographies or autobiographies), I did find a few favorite books, like Captain From Castile and Under a Desert Sky. I won't be surprised if Kim Vogel Sawyer and Francine Rivers will become favorites, either!

[Staci, Book Awards Specialist]

Way to go Hanna!

[Hanna]

Thank you! Actually, I just realized that one of the authors in that short story is Tamela Murray, who authored my #18. So, if I scratch that one off, but add the three others from the short story, I end up with 29 new authors.

[Sarita]

I've read 41 new authors!

[Missy]

I read 35 new authors this year!

[Winter]

13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.

[Beth]

I signed up for 11-15 and found 46 new authors. Not all were that great, but for a few I looked for more of their books.

Beth - ;)
in Calgary