Frank Peretti

Okay, folks, in case you haven’t seen it, here it is again.  Top notch production.  Are you intrigued?

Did you miss Frank’s Facebook Chat?   You can read it here:

There were over 650 people attending and you submitted over 450 questions, so we weren’t able to get to them all, but we did try to consolidate answers to get as many as possible.

HUGE THANK YOU TO YOU ALL FOR SHOWING UP!  We’ll be doing this again next week here on FrankPeretti.com so stay tuned for more information.  Chat will take place at 9:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, February 29th!

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A very special day.  Got to hold my brand new book in my own hands today.  Wow.  March 6 is coming up fast.  Thanks to all those wonderful folks at Howard.

Did you know that you can read chapters of Illusion right now before the book is released? By visiting http://www.facebook.com/officialfrankperetti, liking the page and  joining Frank’s Inner Circle by entering your email in the space provided, you can access all the chapters that have been released so far. Benefits of being an Inner Circle member include email updates as additional chapters are released and entry into all daily drawings for book giveaways.

Starting Feb. 14, two copies of Illusion, one signed, one an audiobook, will be given away every day until the book releases March 6. In addition, on March 6, 100 copies of Illusion will be given away to Inner Circle fans. So take a moment and join Frank’s Inner Circle now. You could be the next winner! Keep visiting Frank’s  Facebook page, join in the community and conversations taking place there, and share it with your friends.

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{NY, NY & Nashville, TN} – MARCH 6, 2012 – Nearly seven years after his last novel was released, best-selling author Frank Peretti finally returns with Illusion {Howard Books / March 6th / 9781439192672} a thrilling story of love, loss, and restoration, full of the twists and mystery that Peretti fans have come to expect from the Father of Christian Fiction.  Illusion marks Peretti’s return to the genre that made him a household name, delivering a page-turning story that challenges our assumptions about the supernatural and reveals hidden truths about the world in which we live.

Illusion is the exceptionally well-written and intricately woven story of Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, who are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life – or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy, supposedly dead, awakes in the present as the 19-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a strange magical ability to pass invisibly through time and space to escape. Alone in a strange world, she uses her mysterious power to eke out a living, performing magic on the streets and in a quaint coffee shop. When Dane ventures to the coffee shop to discover this exciting new talent, he is transfixed by the magic he sees, illusions that he cannot even explain. But more than anything, he is emotionally devastated by this teenager who he has never met, but is in every respect identical to the young beauty he first met and married some forty years earlier. The reappearance launches Dane, Mandy, and readers on journey that transcends time, space, life, and death, as they uncover the conspiracy behind their meeting and the supernatural forces behind Mandy’s new brand of magic.

With more than 15 million books sold, Frank Peretti is not only one of the most recognizable names in Christian fiction, he’s the pioneer of the spiritual warfare genre. Peretti’s two novels, This Present Darkness (1988) and Piercing the Darkness (1989), captivated readers, together selling more than 3.5 million copies. His spiritual thriller The Oath (1995) sold over a million copies and won the 1996 ECPA Gold Medallion Award for best fiction.

Illusion is available in hardcover, e-book and audiobook editions from Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

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Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life—or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy, supposedly dead, awakes in the present as the nineteen-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a magical ability to pass invisibly through time and space to escape. Alone in a strange world, she uses her mysterious powers to eke out a living, performing magic on the streets and in a quaint coffee shop.

Hoping to discover an exciting new talent, Dane ventures into the coffee shop and is transfixed by the magic he sees, illusions that even he, a seasoned professional, cannot explain. But more than anything, he is emotionally devastated by this teenager who has never met him, doesn’t know him, is certainly not in love with him, but is in every respect identical to the young beauty he first met and married some forty years earlier.

They begin a furtive relationship as mentor and protégée, but even as Dane tries to sort out who she really is and she tries to understand why she is drawn to him, they are watched by secretive interests who not only possess the answers to Mandy’s powers and misplacement in time but also the roguish ability to decide what will become of her.

Frank Peretti has crafted a rich, rewarding story of love and life, loss and restoration, full of twists and mystery. Exceptionally well written, Illusion will soon prove another Peretti classic.

Well, hello everybody.

Yep, the official title now is “Illusion” since the novel is about a married couple who are magicians.  It’s part love story, part sci-fi thriller, with some great characters.  We’ve finished up the big macro-edit, and then the more detailed line edit, and now I think we’re about ready to get the artwork done and then, at some point, go to press.  The book is typical Peretti novel length, I guess, over 600 pages, somewhere around 150,000 words, same size as The Oath, The Visitation, or the Darkness books.  No spiritual warfare per se, but plenty of suspense and weird stuff to figure out.  Christian message?  As a matter of fact, yes, but I don’t spoon feed it to the reader.  Those who have an ear will hear.

I’m going to retreat back to my Garden House to pray, think, and blab at the computer – I do a lot of brainstorming through dictation, very cool – in hopes of finding a word from the Lord for a talk I have to do toward the end of October.  I don’t get out to speak much these days, but when I do, I earnestly desire to have something worthwhile to say, so be praying for me.

After that … well, the next book.  No ideas yet, but that has never been a problem.  Working for the Lord all these years I’ve observed, “When you need it, it’ll be there.”  God is Faithful.

Thanks for dropping by.

Frank

Went to Simon and Schuster’s web site and found my name there … wow!

Anyway, they’ve listed my book, Untitled, and say the release date is March 6, 2012.   Cool.

The book is going into the editing phase now, so I’m catching up on some to-do’s around the house until the editorial folks get back to me and we start combing through the manuscript to get any bugs out.  Looking forward to it.

Thanks for visiting and writing!

Frank