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reported by: Brenten Gilbert reported: 06-08-2006


"Deliver Us From Evelyn" 5th most talked about book



Nashville, TN -- The buzz continues to build around Chris Well’s latest zany redemptive crime thriller, Deliver Us From Evelyn, (Harvest House Publishers). Recently, dozens of Internet sites in three countries simultaneously posted the first chapter of the novel -- leading blog authority Technorati, which tracks 42.9 million sites and 2.5 billion links, to rank Deliver Us From Evelyn the fifth most-discussed book on the web.

On Friday, June 2, more than three dozen Internet sites in three countries joined together to simultaneously post the first chapter from Deliver Us From Evelyn. As word spread over the weekend, others joined in -- by Monday, Deliver Us From Evelyn was featured on at least 50 different websites, blogs, MySpace pages and message boards. Most posted the first chapter online; the rest pointed readers to the chapter on other sites. Others showed their support by emailing the first chapter of Evelyn to hundreds of additional readers.

The highlights:

  • At least FIFTY sites participated, counting blogs, MySpace pages, websites and message boards, in three countries
  • A combined total of more than 100,000 readers sampled or read about Deliver Us From Evelyn between June 2-5
  • Participants included a cross-section of fans, readers and professional novelists from a wide variety of genres, including members of International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime and American Christian Fiction Writers
  • Two major Christian culture magazines participated online, CCM Magazine and Infuze Magazine

    The resulting Internet chatter led blog authority Technorati, which tracks 42.9 million sites and 2.5 billion links, to rank Deliver Us From Evelyn one of the Top 10 books discussed on the Web (alongside such general market successes as The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, A Million Little Pieces, The Devil Wears Prada, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West). By June 5, Evelyn hit the Top 5 -- and stayed in the Top 10 through June 7.

    Deliver Us From Evelyn (Harvest House, 2006): In this thriller, everyone from the Feds to the mob is scrambling to find the husband of heartless media mogul Evelyn Blake. But no one can decide which is worse -- that he is missing, or that she is not ...

    Read the first chapter for yourself: http://www.studiowell.com/Evelyn_ChapterOne

    Chris Well is an award-winning novelist and magazine editor. His debut thriller, Forgiving Solomon Long, was picked one of the “Top 10 Christian Novels” of 2005 by Booklist (American Library Association). By day, he is editor for Homecoming magazine and contributing editor for CCM magazine. He and his wife make their home in Tennessee.



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