Thought Quotient

Award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Ray Blackston traveled to the Australian Outback while writing Lost in Rooville, the highly anticipated third book in his popular �Flabbergasted� series, releasing July 1 from Revell.

Taking the 26-hour flight from his hometown of Greenville, SC to Alice Springs, a tourist town in Central Australia, Blackston said the trip and the research helped craft Lost in Rooville. After several days of exploring, hiking, cooking over campfires and riding an ornery camel named Mona, Blackston returned to the Carolinas, bringing to life the Outback experience in Lost in Rooville. Like his own excursion, the book is billed as �an adventure of a lifetime.� Lost in Rooville features Blackston’s trademark humor, quirky characters, original poetry and electrifying dialogue, all mixed in a relational gumbo. Narrator Jay Jarvis has commitment on his mind, and girlfriend Allie Kyle, who wants to see the wildlife. Steve Cole has a map in hand, girlfriend Darcy Yeager at the wheel and a struggle with commitment. Taking the trip of their lifetime, the two bachelors drive their women deep into arid plains in separate Land Cruisers while pondering a common equation: �Australia + woman + ring = good plan.� What it actually equals is a male-narrated romance set in a hilarious, sometimes treacherous, baked debacle in the vast down under.

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R & R�s most played Christian Rock band of 2004, Sanctus Real, received its first-ever GMA Music Award for Modern Rock Album of the Year for Fight The Tide, the band�s fastest selling album.
Check out our interview with the guys from Sanctus Real at http://music.thoughtquotient.com.

Soul2Soul Radio International announced the launch of �SOUL2SOUL EN ESPA�OL�, a new Spanish language version of the internationally syndicated Soul2Soul Radio program. Soul2Soul Espa�ol will be produced in partnership with Shock FM in Guatemala and syndicated to Spanish language music station in South and Central America, and across the United States. �We were approached twice in 2004 and asked to adapt Soul2Soul to meet cultural and language needs internationally. Soul2Soul Espa�ol fits our mission to advance contemporary Christian music, its artists, and the Gospel message,� said Soul2Soul�s President, Chris Coppernoll.
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Lisbeth Scott, whose voice is heard in hit films including Shrek (1 & 2), Ridley Scott�s Kingdom of Heaven and as soloist and co-lyricist for the Oscar-nominated score to The Passion of the Christ, has her new song ‘No One But You’ in theaters everywhere through a promotion with Movie Tunes. ‘No One But You’ is a track from Scott�s original CD, Passionate Voice, recently released on Sarathan/SHELTERecords through Word/WEA Distribution. The single releases to Inspirational and AC Radio in May.

Lisbeth recently was in Nashville where she accepted the Dove Award for �Instrumental Album of the Year� on behalf of Passion of the Christ composer John Debney. The GMA Music Awards will broadcast nationally in June (Date TBD).

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