Single-author collection of prize-winning Christmas stories was a sleeper bestseller in 2001. Finalist for ForeWord 2001 Book of the Year. Honorable Mention, Writer's Digest Year's Best Self-Published (INspirational) Book. Hardcover, paperback, CD, cassette.
Author/traveling storyteller does hundreds of site readings and radio readings yearly. Ray Bradbury Short Fiction Competition winner. Best Inspirational Book of Year honorable mention, Best Mystery/Suspense Book of Year silver medalist, Best Horror Book honorable mention. Numerous other awards. Known nationally as "The Christmas Story Pastor", published work in Family Circle, Down East, Reader's Digest, Yankee, Lake Country Journal, et al. Speaks at colleges, churches, TV, radio, senior centers, civic groups, town halls, schools, libraries, bookstores. Also well-known for church leadership books.
Excerpt
"Down along the track, groaning and sweating, inching the wagon toward us to save those lovely,lovely elephants, we could see black folks and white folks, horses and oxen, Catholics and Protestants, the sprinkled and the dunked, all working side by side. Lordy, I thought, what God wouldn't give to have me and Hannah's view. As soon as I thought it, I realized God was right there seeing it, an arm around each of us." (from "The Thumb Island Elephants")
Professional Reviews
League of Vermont Writers
Laced with humor, pathos, gentle irony, and bright-eyed insight into the human psyche, these twelve stories are surely in a class with O Henry and perhaps with deMaupassant.
Nancy Means Wright, Mystery Writer, Past President, League of Vermont Writers
Peconic Bay Shopper
For over a decade we've run a Steve Burt Christmas story in December. It's the issue 10,000 people line up for. Folks mail them to their friends and family, and a few brave souls have confessed to collecting them like baseball cards.
Michael Hagerman, Publisher/Editor, Peconic Bay Shopper, Long Island, NY
Church Worship
Steve Burt's stories have a wonderful way of engaging readers with their human touch. He is a gifted storyteller.
Linda Davidson, Editor, Church Worship Magazine
From the Caribbean Sea to Machu Picchu in Peru, and from birds to flowers and butterflies, Reflections and Treasured Wonders offers a collection of images gathered from around the world.
