Heaven Is for Real: One Year Later, Palin and 'Rogue' Ghostwriter hit New York Times List with Separate Bestsellers

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A year after former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin teamed with collaborator Lynn Vincent to write the #1 New York Times bestselling Going Rogue: An American Life, both women have hit the NYT list again – but this time with separate titles. Palin's American by Heart is #5 on the December 19 New York Times hardcover nonfiction list. Meanwhile, Vincent's new collaboration, Heaven Is for Real, is #5 on the paperback nonfiction list.

"Moving from the world of hardball national politics to the true story of a small-town family's life-altering experience was a radical but refreshing change," Vincent said. 

In March 2003, Todd and Sonja Burpo were on the verge of their worst nightmare – losing a child. Their 4-year-old son Colton's appendix had unknowingly burst days before, and he was now fighting a life-threatening infection. To save Colton, surgery was the only option. But what would happen during that surgery was more than healing through modern medicine.

Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is the true story of the Burpo family and Colton, who during his life-threatening illness and sudden surgery, slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He narrowly survives. Several months later while passing by the same hospital that saved him, Colton begins talking about his experiences during surgery and making a trip to heaven. The family didn't know what to believe, but soon the evidence was clear.

Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church and a volunteer fireman. His wife Sonja is a children's minister, busy pastor's wife, and mom. Colton, an active eleven year old, has an older sister Cassie and a younger brother Colby.

Lynn Vincent is the New York Times bestselling writer of Same Kind of Different as Me and Going Rogue: An American Life. The author or coauthor of nine books, Vincent worked for eleven years as senior writer, then features editor, at the national news biweekly WORLD Magazine where she covered politics, culture, and current events. A U.S. Navy veteran, Lynn is also a lecturer in writing at the World Journalism Institute and The King's College in New York City.

SOURCE Thomas Nelson

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