{"id":110316,"date":"2016-04-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/2016-alabama-book-festival-display-to-feature-the-new-fiction-trilogy-the-pray-ers-by-mark-s-mirza\/"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:00:00","slug":"2016-alabama-book-festival-display-to-feature-the-new-fiction-trilogy-the-pray-ers-by-mark-s-mirza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/2016-alabama-book-festival-display-to-feature-the-new-fiction-trilogy-the-pray-ers-by-mark-s-mirza\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Alabama Book Festival display to feature the new fiction trilogy &#8216;The Pray-ers&#8217; by Mark S Mirza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s2pred\"><strong>NEWS SOURCE: CTM Publishing Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA, Ga., April 11, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; CTM Publishing&#8217;s display at the 2016 Alabama Book Festival will feature the new fiction trilogy &#8220;The Pray-ers&#8221; by Mark S Mirza. The 11th annual Alabama Book Festival will be held at Old Alabama Town in downtown Montgomery on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The Festival is the state&#8217;s premier literary event and attracts thousands of people from around the State and the Southeast. <\/p>\n<p> LEARNING PRAYER THRU THE FUN OF A NOVEL: &#8220;THE PRAY-ERS&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p> Author \/ Speaker Mark S Mirza states, &#8220;I want people to enjoy a novel and at the end of the book to realize that they have learned how to pray through the example of the three historical figures in this book: Epaphras from the first century Christian Church, Brother Alexander Rich from the period of the American Civil War, and Coach Dale Riley of the current era.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Mark&#8217;s desire to write &#8220;The Pray-ers&#8221; was impacted by his favorite writers including all of Joel Rosenberg&#8217;s novels, Jerry Jenkins &#8220;Precinct 11&#8221; series, Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall&#8217;s &#8220;Joshua Jordan&#8221; series, Tim LaHaye&#8217;s &#8220;Babylon Rising&#8221; series, and C. S. Lewis and his famous &#8220;Narnia&#8221; series. Mark also enjoys the work of Frederick Forsyth and John Lescroat. He especially liked the way John Lescroat writes completely different books with the characters from his previous books. <\/p>\n<p> When asked what he is seeing on prayer in the bookstores, Mark answers: &#8220;Lots of great &#8216;how to&#8217; books and lots of great theory. I&#8217;m not looking to compete with any of the great writers out there. I wanted to write something very unique: learning prayer through the fun of a novel. What you are not seeing in the bookstores is a book like &#8216;The Pray-ers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> To learn more visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepray-ers.com\/\">http:\/\/www.thepray-ers.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0411-theprayers-500x375.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"The Pray-ers Book One\"\/> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>About Mark S Mirza:<\/strong><br \/> Mark S Mirza is an author, speaker, and student of prayer. He led Dr. Charles Stanley&#8217;s Men&#8217;s Prayer Ministry at First Baptist Church Atlanta for four and a half years before entering full-time ministry. In 2010 Mark founded Common Thread Ministries to help churches that want to have a prayer ministry. Mark teaches throughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Honduras, and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p> He is the author \/ publisher of four books of which one has been translated into three languages: &#8220;Prayer Made Alive&#8221; (English), &#8220;Oracion con Vida&#8221; (Spanish), and &#8220;Maombi Kufanywa Hai&#8221; (Swahili). Mark&#8217;s other books include &#8220;Praying the Prayer Cards,&#8221; the children&#8217;s book &#8220;Rainbow of Promises,&#8221; and the new fiction trilogy: &#8220;The Pray-ers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Mark and his wife Naida live in Atlanta and have a horse, Coracao, boarded in North Ga. where they spend much of their spare time.<\/p>\n<p> Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Pray-ers-1674675216122274\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Pray-ers-1674675216122274\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Twitter: @CTMPrayer.<\/p>\n<p>News issued by: CTM Publishing Inc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0411-Mark-S-Mirza-500x375.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"CTM Publishing Inc.\"\/><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0411-Mark-S-Mirza-500x375.jpg\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/16-0411-Mark-S-Mirza-500&#215;375.jpg<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p> # # # <\/p>\n<p><small>Original Story ID: 2016-0411-01 (11012) :: 2016-alabama-book-festival-display-to-feature-the-new-fiction-trilogy-the-pray-ers-by-mark-s-mirza-2016-0411-01<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Keywords:  CTM Publishing Inc. ATLANTA Georgia ATLANTA, Ga.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Alternate Headline: New fiction trilogy &#8216;The Pray-ers&#8217; by Mark S Mirza featured at 2016 Alabama Book Festival<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>NEWS ARCHIVE NOTE:<\/strong> this archival news content, issued by the news source via Send2Press Newswire, was originally located in the Send2Press&reg; 2004-2015 2.0 news platform and has been permanently converted\/moved (and redirected) into our 3.0 platform. Also note the story &#8220;reads&#8221; counter (bottom of page) does not include any data prior to Oct. 30, 2016. 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