Novel Crossing–check it out!

300x250-Square-woodsmallAt ACFW last week, I learned about an exciting new venture in Christian fiction. Novel Crossing has an extensive database of Christian fiction titles: currently close to 10,000 books from more than 50 publishers. It also has articles from top Christian fiction authors, reviews from readers, and more. It’s a community where readers can find and discuss Christian fiction.

The goal of the website is to deliver news, reviews, and community to Christian fiction readers. How cool is that?

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Authors can update their own author profiles, interact with readers, review one another’s books, even write devotionals based on novels.

Readers can post tweet-length reviews, create discussion threads, track their online bookshelves (and those of their friends), rate books and authors they like … and share reviews, articles, and other content on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

Novel Crossing will provide readers with recommendations on new authors and books they would like based on the books and authors they already like. The Novel Crossing e-newsletter contains updates on books and articles custom-tailored to each subscriber, based on their interests.

Sounds like a great idea to me!