Bøger af Rene Gutteridge

"Bridgette is fun-size, funny, and fierce. In Overlooked, she will tug at your heart, make you roar with laughter, and lead you to the One who loves you best." - Kirk Cameron "Bridgette is the friend everyone wants in their corner, the dance partner you would want through life. I thank God He made her my sister." - Melissa Fleming "Bridgette is a mama bear, a fighter for what's just and right. I've learned a lot from my big little sister over the years, and I'm forever grateful to God to be hers." - Candace Cameron Bure Sister to stars Kirk Cameron and Candace Cameron Bure, Bridgette recounts heart-warming stories from their childhood - and how later in life, one terrifying, but life-changing moment brought her closer to God and to her purpose. Bridgette's story is a message of inexhaustible hope, fulfillment, and a discovery that not only is God's timing perfect...but His plans for us are also far better than our own. We are never Overlooked.

"What girl can't identify with Never the Bride? This is a fabulously funny novel with deep truths embedded in its pages.” -Kristin Billerbeck, author of What a Girl Wants"I admire writers who employ words to paint touchable pictures, likable characters, introducing us to instant friends who lead us to unexpected endings. That's why I love Never The Bride.” -SQuire Rushnell, author of the When GOD Winks booksEleven Bridesmaid Dresses Don't LieSince she was just a little girl, Jessie Stone dreamed up hundreds of marriage proposals, doodled the romantic ideas in her journal with her treasured purple pen, and fantasized about wedding dresses and falling in love. She's been a bridesmaid nearly a dozen times, waved numerous couples off to sunny honeymoons, and shopped in more department stores for half-price fondue pots than she cares to remember. But shopping for one key component of these countless proposals hasn't been quite as productive-a future husband. The man she thought she would marry cheated on her. The crush she has on her best friend Blake is at very best...well, crushing. And speed dating has only churned out memorable horror stories.So when God shows up one day, in the flesh, and becomes a walking, talking part of her life, Jessie is skeptical. What will it take to convince her that the Almighty has a better plan than one she's already cooked up in her journals? Can she turn over her pen and trust someone else to craft a love story beyond her wildest dreams?Cheryl McKay is the screenwriter for the award-winning film The Ultimate Gift. She also wrote an episode of Gigi: God's Little Princess, based on the book by Sheila Walsh, and Taylor's Wall, a drama about high-school violence. She's been writing since the tender age of five when she penned her first play. Cheryl is originally from Boston, Massachusetts, and currently lives in Los Angeles. Rene Gutteridge is a critically acclaimed comedy writer and novelist. She is the author of fifteen novels including the Boo series, My Life as a Doormat, the Occupational Hazards series, and the novelization of the motion picture The Ultimate Gift. She lives in Oklahoma with her family.

"....through it all, there was always the silence. The lack of applause. I didn't realize I wanted it until it wasn't there. Sometimes I'd print out a page and hurry it into the living room for my husband to read. He always encouraged me."But most of the time I was left to wonder how everyone was enjoying my book. Which parts were their favorites? Did they laugh at that great line on page 40? I'd never know."Writing, I grew to learn, was going to be a place where I would need to understand that even in wild success, there would be little applause."Join novelist and screenwriter Rene Gutteridge for insights into the writing life. Fresh and honest, When There Is No Applause will delight fans and encourage upcoming authors to follow their dreams-even when it seems like no one takes notice.

Act I: Avoid conflict at all costs. Even when someone signs you up for something you really don't want to do. Act II: Try to hold things together, even when your life is spinning out of control. Act III: (You'll have to read the book to learn how it all plays out.)

“Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” Nobody in Skary seems to know for sure…It appears that everyone in Skary, Indiana, is having an identity crisis of epic proportions–including the town itself. Once known as the haunt of the world’s most popular horror writer, Wolfe “Boo” Boone, Skary started losing tourist business after Boo abruptly abandoned his career. Now the little town with the big marketing hook is up a creek–and on the brink of bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the former best-selling author is hawking [or selling] cars and wondering, like the rest of the world, if he’ll ever write again. Yet even as Boo’s literary career gracelessly plummets, his fiancée, wholesome Ainsley Parker, is shooting to stardom as the media’s darling new domestic diva. Weave in a dreaming bride with a bargain dress and a few too many pounds on her hips, an unconventional therapist who has Skary in his thrall, a depressed cat, a dogged busybody, and a horde of strange, ghostly figures traipsing in and out of the woods, and it’s easy to see why Skary is the quirkiest–and most charming–town around.

Talk about working out your faith with fear and trembling–a scheme is plotted to put the fright back into Skary–and get their most famous resident out of love and back into the thrill business.  The biggest thing to happen to Skary, Indiana, is renowned horror novelist Wolfe Boone–or, “Boo,” as the locals fondly call him. For the past sixteen years, the reclusive writer has been the town’s greatest attraction, having unintentionally turned the once-struggling Skary into a thriving tourist-trap for the dark side: from the Haunted Mansion restaurant, famous for its “bloody fingers” (fries splattered with ketchup) to Spooky’s Bookstore (where employees dress like the walking dead). But when a newly reformed Boone suddenly quits the genre and starts to pursue Skary’s favorite girl-next-door, Ainsley Parker, the little town made famous by his writings becomes truly horrified. The residents know that the only solution is for Boo to fall out of love and get back to scaring.    Filled with humor, small town charm, and a gentle message of enduring faith, Boo shows how even the most colorful group of busybodies and hypocrites can become a community changed forever by God.

The third book in the Occupational Hazards series, a laugh-out-loud novel about a group of strangers flying from Atlanta to AmsterdamBlissfully unaware that Atlantica Flight 1945 from Atlanta to Amsterdam is about to make aviation history, First Officer Danny McSweeney focuses his energies on navigating the turbulent personalities of an eccentric female captain, a co-pilot with a talent for tactless comments and conspiracy theories, and a lead flight attendant with an outsized attitude that definitely exceeds the limits for carry-on baggage. On the other side of the cockpit door, the unscheduled in-flight entertainment includes a potbellied pig, a jittery diamond courier, and the recently jilted Lucy Meredith, whose personal mantra of “What Would Oprah Do?” will be challenged by the sudden appearance of her ex and his new traveling partner. On her left sits Hank Hazard, whose unusually polite but constant requests--prompted by his covert role as a spy for the airline--test the limits of the crew’s customer service. But as Lucy and the rest of the crew discover, Hank’s odd behavior is linked to a quiet faith that may play a key role in the fate of everyone on board. Especially when an unexpected traveler sets this already bumpy flight on a course toward the unfriendly skies.

Jason Stephens lives a life of wealth. A life of privilege. A life that's about to take a radical turn.