The Penny
A Novel
by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford

List Price: $13.99
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780446695930
Publisher: FaithWords

Joyce Meyer

JOYCE MEYER is one of the world's leading practical Bible teachers. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, she has written more than seventy inspirational books, including The Confident Woman, Look Great, Feel Great, and the entire Battlefield of the Mind family of books. She has also released thousands of audio teachings as well as a complete video library. Joyce's Enjoying Everyday Life® radio and television programs are broadcast around the world, and she travels extensively conducting conferences. Joyce and her husband, Dave, are the parents of four grown children and make their home in St. Louis, Missouri.

Deborah Bedford

Deborah Bedford began writing when she was ten years old after she finished reading Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women. She promptly took pen in hand, found shade beneath the old mimosa tree in the front yard and, because the story would not let her alone, began turning Little Women into a play. That began the long and frustrating process of getting into trouble in school for scribbling stories in spiral notebooks instead of listening in class. Now Deborah's novels have been published in twenty different countries and in over a dozen different languages. Her books have garnered numerous awards and have appeared on the USA Today bestseller list, the CBA bestseller list, and chosen as a Doubleday Book of the Month Alternate Selection.

Deborah is president and co-founder, along with Tim Sandlin, of the prestigious Jackson Hole Writers Conference, which brings writers the likes of Sue Grafton, Susan Isaacs, Wally Lamb, Billie Letts, John Nichols, Anne Lamott, Tab Murphy, Olivia Goldsmith, William Broyles and Tony Hillerman to teach in Wyoming as well as to barbecue on the deck at Snow King resort and to climb mountains.

Until now, Deborah has built her career writing mass-market fiction. A Rose By The Door marks her first novel-length venture into inspirational fiction, something that feels to her like gloriously falling forward and wondrously coming home, all at the same time. She already felt impelled to write this story. But then she met Jamie Raab, publisher at Warner, and the rest, as everyone says, felt like stars moving into place.

Deborah and her husband, Jack, have two children, Jeff, 16, and Avery, 12. When she isn't writing, she spends her time fly-fishing, cheering at Babe Ruth baseball games, singing praise songs while she walks along the banks of Flat Creek, and taking her dachshund Annie for low-slung hikes in the Tetons where they live.

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