The Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA) has named NavPress author Becky Harling the 2011 AWSA Member of the Year.

In presenting the award at this month's 2011 Golden Scroll Award ceremony, AWSA founder Linda Evans Shepherd said, “Becky is both an abuse and cancer survivor. She inspires audiences, readers as well as our own prayer team to spend time daily praising God.”

Becky’s life experience as a pastor’s wife, mother of four, women’s ministry director, and survivor of both childhood sexual abuse and breast cancer all bring depth and realism to her message. She creatively combines biblical insight with her powerful testimony and the stories of other women who have found hope and healing in Christ.

Becky's books include Finding Calm in Life's Chaos and Rewriting Your Emotional Script. Her most recent book with NavPress, Freedom from Performing, released in May 2011.

The AWSA is a professional support group made up of the top 10 percent of Christian women in both publishing and speaking. The 2011 Golden Scroll Awards were presented on Sunday, July 10, at the Omni at CNN Center in Atlanta.

The Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA) has announced that NavPress' Wounded Children, Healing Homes is a finalist for its 2011 Golden Scroll Nonfiction Book of the Year award. Written by Jayne E. Schooler, Betsy Keefer Smalley, and Timothy J. Callahan, Wounded Children, Healing Homes addresses the reality of unmet expectations in adoption and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children. It is just one of the many books NavPress offers on adoption issues.

Finalists will be honored at the AWSA Golden Scrolls Awards Banquet, Sunday, July 10, at the Omni at CNN Center in Atlanta.

AWSA, an outreach of Right to the Heart Ministries, consists of over 300 top ICRS women authors who both publish and speak nationally.

NavPress is pleased to announce that two of its fiction books captured Book of the Year awards from the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW).

Sharon Hinck won in the Speculative category for The Restorer’s Journey and Jenny B. Jones took home the award in the Young Adult category for The Big Picture.

“At NavPress/TH1NK, we’ve been honored to work with some of the industry’s best fiction authors and look forward to publishing more life-changing resources in the future,” says Rebekah Guzman, senior editor for NavPress.

The mission of ACFW is to promote Christian fiction through developing the skills of its authors, educating them in the market, and serving as an advocate in the industry. The group offers a variety of services and benefits to members in an effort to fulfill its mission to encourage writers of Christian fiction, develop their skills, educate them in the market, and provide fellowship for writers of like interests.