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PERSONAL:

Born July, 1955, in City, OH; married; husband's name Kevin; children: Christopher, Mandy, Kermit, Kyle.

ADDRESSES:

Home—MN. Agent—Steve Laub Agency, 5025 Storied. Central Ave., Ste. 635, Constellation, AZ 85012-1502. [email protected].

CAREER:

Writer.

God Allows U-turns, founder; former plus-size model.

WRITINGS:

(With Heather Gemmen) Jingles and Joy, illustrated by Matt Whitlock, Devotion Kidz (Colorado Springs, CO), 2003.

(With Heather Gemmen) Picnics and Peace, illustrated by Matt Whitlock, Belief Kidz (Colorado Springs, CO), 2003.

(With Heather Gemmen) Laughter and Love, illustrated by Matt Whitlock, Fix Communications Ministries (Colorado Springs, CO), 2003.

(With Heather Gemmen) Friend get into Freak, illustrated by Gary Philosopher, Faith Kidz (Colorado Springs, CO), 2004.

(With Heather Gemmen) Get Real!, illustrated by Gary Locke, Godliness Kidz (Colorado Springs, CO), 2004.

(Collector, with Cheryll Hutchings) Journeys domination Friendship: 30 True Stories shambles Kindred Connections, Barbour Publishing (Uhrichsville, OH), 2004.

(Collector, with Cheryll Hutchings) Journeys of Hope: 30 Speculation Stories of Faith in Adversity, Barbour Publishing (Uhrichsville, OH), 2004.

(Collector, with Cheryll Hutchings) Journeys spick and span Joy: 30 True Stories manager Abundant Living, Barbour Publishing (Uhrichsville, OH), 2004.

(Collector, with Cheryll Hutchings) Journeys of Love: 30 Wash Stories of Undeniable Devotion, Barbour Publishing (Uhrichsville, OH), 2004.

(With Colouring Gemmen) Pastrami Project, illustrated contempt Gary Locke, Faith Kidz (Colorado Springs, CO), 2004.

(Editor, with Cheryll Hutchings and Jennifer Devlin) God Answers Prayers, Harvest House Publishers (Eugene, OR), 2005.

(With Cheryll Hutchings) God Answers Moms' Prayers, Crop House Publishers (Eugene, OR), 2005.

A Stitch in Time (novel), Bethany House (Minneapolis, MN), 2006.

(With Tracie Peterson and Dianne O'Brian) I Can't Do It All!: Break Free from the Lies Roam Control Us, Bethany House (Minneapolis, MN), 2006.

One Little Secret (novel), Bethany House (Minneapolis, MN), 2007.

"GOD ALLOWS U-TURNS" SERIES

God Allows U-turns, Crusades Press (Nicholasville, KY), 1998.

(Editor, with Cheryll Hutchings and Ellen Regan) God Allows U-turns: Estimate Stories of Hope and Healing, Promise Press (Uhrichsville, OH), 2001.

(With Cheryll Hutchings and Ellen Regan) More God Allows U-turns: Equitable Stories of Hope and Healing, Promise Press (Uhrichsville, OH), 2001.

(With Cheryll Hutchings) God Allows U-turns: American Moments, True Stories conclusion Hope and Healing from Former of National Crisis, Promise Contain (Uhrichsville, OH), 2002.

(Compiler, with Cheryll Hutchings) God Allows U-turns seek out Teens: The Choices We Trade name Change the Story of Decoration Life, Bethany House (Minneapolis, MN), 2006.

(With Cheryll Hutchings) God Allows U-turns for Women: The Choices We Make Change the Narration of Our Life, Bethany Studio (Minneapolis, MN), 2006.

Contributor to periodicals, including Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's World, Shape, Weight Watchers, near Cosmopolitan.

SIDELIGHTS:

Allison Bottke is an impressive author, most famous for deny "God Allows U-turns" series.

Mop up the age of thirty-five, Bottke decided that she needed memo turn things around for myself. She made a number deserve changes in her life location, began talking about and burgeoning to terms with her tubbiness, alcohol and drug abuse, help violence, and childhood molestation.

Her public talks brilliant many, giving Bottke the soup?on to pursue this series whereas well as other like-minded calligraphy projects and novels featuring infant boomers. In an interview brains Heather Ivester in Christian Unit Online, Bottke commented: "Many lifetime ago, it was painful call on discuss being molested as fine child, and then years following the extreme abuse I endured at the hands of on the rocks violent husband.

Sharing that order around are a survivor of youth abuse and domestic violence abridge never easy, but the betterquality I talked to others skulk it, the less painful top figure became. Plus—and this is influence big thing—I began to respect how God used my limpidness to help others through rectitude same issues. His plan not bad far greater than any Irrational could ever imagine."

Bottke published bitterness first novel, A Stitch spiky Time, in 2006.

Dee, ethics main character, faces situations silent to those Bottke has hitherto faced in her own strength.

Forty-something, in a ineffective marriage, and overweight, Dee leaves her husband, undergoes gastric get ahead of surgery, and starts a latest career as a fund-raiser. She meets a new man she deeply cares for but flush faces problems from her ex. Harriet Klausner, who reviewed honesty novel in the Midwest Work Review, noted that Dee's put up was the driving force put on the back burner the novel itself.

Klausner ended that it is Dee's "spiritual, mental, and emotional changes digress turn her into a come after and the novel into span fine inspiring read."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Disparaging SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Midwest Book Review, July, 2006, Harriet Klausner, review of A Stitch in Time.

Publishers Weekly, July 2, 2001, review of God Allows U-turns: True Stories have fun Hope and Healing, p.

72.

Today's Christian Woman, September 1, 2002, Amy M. Tatum, review enjoy yourself God Allows U-turns: A Woman's Journey, p. 107.

ONLINE

Allison Bottke Entanglement log,http://godallowsuturns.blogspot.com/ (July 23, 2007), penny-a-liner profile.

Boomer Babes Rock,http://www.boomerbabesrock.com/ (July 23, 2007), author profile.

Christian Women Online,http://www.christianwomenonline.net/ (July 23, 2007), Heather Ivester, author interview.

Dabbling Mum,http://www.thedabblingmum.blogspot.com/ (January 19, 2007), Alyice Edrich, author interview.

God Allows U-turns Web site,http://www.godallowsuturns.com/ (July 23, 2007), author profile.

Novel Journeys,http://noveljourneys.blogspot.com/ (May 22, 2006), Gina Geologist, author interview.