{"id":8927,"count":17,"description":"Citing his Arkansas heritage, Christy Award winning author Ace Collins defines himself as a storyteller. In that capacity, Ace has authored more than seventy books for 25 different publishers that have sold more than 2.5 million copies. His catalog includes novels, biographies, children\u2019s works as well as books on history, culture and faith. He has also been the featured speaker at the National Archives Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted a network television special and\u00a0is the play-by-play voice for Ouachita Tiger basketball.\r\n\r\nIn 2015, Ace released two new novels,\u00a0<em>Hollywood Lost<\/em>, a mystery from Abingdon Fiction set against the backdrop of the motion picture business in 1936. and\u00a0<em>The Fruitcake Murders<\/em>, a comedy\/whodunit set in Chicago in the days just after World War II. Beyond these Abingdon offerings, Elk Lake continues to release new episodes of In The President\u2019s Service, a groundbreaking series that first hit the market in 2014.\r\n\r\nOne of Ace\u2019s most talked about books was released in late 2015.\u00a0<em>The Color of Justice<\/em>\u00a0earned the Christy Award winner for Best Suspense Book. This novel is a courtroom drama examining racial prejudice in 1964. Also in 2014, Abingdon released Ace\u2019s\u00a0<em>Man\u2019s Best Hero<\/em>\u00a0at the Book Explo of America. This nonfiction book earned the IndieFab Book of the Year Winner and Christian Retailing\u2019s Gift Book of the Year, as well as generating interest well beyond the dog community.\r\n\r\nAce\u2019s publishing history includes the novels\u00a0<em>Farraday Road, Swope\u2019s Ridge and Jefferson Burke and the Secret of the Lost Scroll<\/em>\u00a0for Zondervan,\u00a0<em>The Yellow Packard<\/em>\u00a0from Barbour,\u00a0<em>Reich of Passage for Bay Forest<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Christmas Star<\/em>\u00a0for Abingdon.\r\n\r\nIn nonfiction, Ace has scored bestsellers with T<em>he Cathedrals, Lassie A Dog\u2019s Life, Turn Your Radio On, The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, Father Does Know Best,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Stories Behind The Great Traditions of Christmas.<\/em>\u00a0His books have been made into two network television specials and a CBS movie. The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs of Christmas hit #3 on the Amazon bestselling list for all books and #1 in several other categories and still continues to sell well more than a decade after its release. Ace\u2019s books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German and Indonesia (Mayla).\r\n\r\nBeyond books, Ace has penned more than 2000 magazine features, appeared on every network morning television show, as well as CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox. \u00a0Ace is married to the Chair of the Department of Education at Ouachita Baptist University, Dr. Kathy Collins. 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