Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes!

The hunt BEGINS on 6/15 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com.Hunt through our loop using Chrome or Firefox as your browser (not Explorer).There is NO RUSH to complete the hunt—you have all weekend (until Sunday, 6/18 at midnight MST)! So take your time, reading the unique posts along the way; our hope is that you discover new authors/new books and learn new things about them.Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the CLUE on each author’s scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the Rafflecopter form at the final stop, back on Lisa’s site. Many authors are offering additional prizes along the way!

 

I’m author Beth K. Vogt and I’ve always loved a good romance, contemporary or historical, especially one with some humor woven through it. I’ve written award-winning contemporary romance and women’s fiction, and Dedicated to the One I Love, which release June 20, is a return to my romance roots. I also love my home state of Colorado, so Kylie and Joe’s story is set there, as my other novels have been too — with an occasional foray to Florida, where we lived for eight years. You can connect with me on Instagram and Facebook, and Twitter.

Here’s what Dedicated to the One I Love is about:

She doesn’t believe in love anymore. He doesn’t either.
They’re perfect for each other.
Two  friends who connected online via a popular word game and their mutual love of trivia discover they’re both novelists writing under pen names — and now are forced to worked on a project together. Surely they can wrangle their alter egos into this literary collaboration. But as the deadline looms, their differences threaten the romance developing off the page.

In their emails, Kylie and Joe try to stump one another with various trivia questions.

In honor of of my main characters and the literary thread woven through Dedicated to the One I Love, I decided to share some fun trivia about famous authors. Read on and see if any of your favorite authors are included.

Did you know:

 

J.R.R. Tolkien worked for the Oxford Dictionary and spent two years researching the etymology of words beginning with W. His most famous additions are “waggle” and walrus”.John Steinbeck’s dog ate his first manuscript of Of Mice and Men.Louisa May Alcott, who wrote Little Women, which happens to be my favorite childhood book, was the first woman registered to vote in Concord, Massachusetts. At the time, women were only given the right to vote in school board elections.Roald Dahl, author of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, was a taste tester for Cadbury’s chocolate.Maya Angelou was San Francisco’s first ever black streetcar conductor. (I love quotes and I quote Maya Angelou so often!)William Shakespeare coined the following phrases: dead as a doornail, in a pickle, wear your heart on your sleeve, star-crossed lovers, and off with his head.Jane Austen never married, but she was engaged for one night. She accepted the proposal of marriage two weeks prior to her 27th birthday and changed her mind the next morning. (Anyone else surprised by this?)Before finding fame as a novelist, The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown was a pop singer. One of his solo albums was called Angels and Demons.J.K. Rowling came up with the names for houses at Hogwarts in Harry Potter while she was on an airplane. She jotted the names down on an airsickness bag. (And this is why writers are told to always carry a notebook, yes?)Famed mystery writer Agatha Christie wrote six romance novels – perhaps relationship-centered novels would be a better description – under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Mary is her middle name and Westmacott is a distant family name.

Here’s Your Critical Stop #8 Info:

If you’re interested, you can order Dedicated to the One I Love on Amazon! 

Clue to Write Down: for the 

Link to Stop #9, the Next Stop on the Loop: Tracie Peterson’s site!

Don’t miss my giveaway! (This giveaway is for U.S. entries only.)