Best-selling author Frank Peretti has been named this year's recipient of the American Christian Fiction Writers' (ACFW) Lifetime Achievement Award.

"The very essence of what Christian fiction could encompass forever changed with the release of Peretti's This Present Darkness," said ACFW executive board member Allen Arnold. "That wasn't Frank's goal. He quietly wrote the story that God stirred his heart with. But that novel ripped wide the veil between the seen and unseen.

"That novel brought men and teens in droves to the Christian fiction aisle—no small feat," Arnold added. "It showed how Christian fiction can be muscular and unabashedly speculative with angels and demons fighting around us and impacted by our prayers. More than 25 years later, Frank continues to quietly write novels from his home in the wilderness—novels that quicken the pace and stir the souls of any who dare dive in."

In addition to his New York Times best-selling titles This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness (both Crossway), Peretti's other novels include the best-sellers House and Monster (both Thomas Nelson) and Illusion (Howard Books).

ACFW will officially announce Peretti's Lifetime Achievement Award honor and the group's Carol Award finalists during a press conference at 10:30 a.m. CST, Monday, June 24, in Media Room #106 at the America's Center Convention Complex during the International Christian Retail Show in St. Louis.

Peretti and winners of the Carol Awards will be honored at the ACFW conference, to be held Sept. 15 at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis. Robin Jones Gunn is the keynote speaker of the conference.

Visit www.acfw.com/conference for more information.

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