


In the summer of 2013, Ace’s novel, Darkness Before Dawn, was chosen by several different book clubs and publications as one of the top reads of 2013. A fall novel from the same year, The Cutting Edge, mixed suspense, romance and intrigue in a tale of survival and victory. This nonfiction book earned the IndieFab Book of the Year Winner and Christian Retailing’s Gift Book of the Year, as well as generating interest well beyond the dog community.Īce’s first devotional book, Music For Your Heart, was released in late 2013 and earned numerous five star reviews. Also in 2014, Abingdon released Ace’s Man’s Best Hero at the Book Explo of America. This novel is a courtroom drama examining racial prejudice in 1964. The Color of Justice earned the Christy Award winner for Best Suspense Book. One of Ace’s most talked about books was released in late 2015. Elk Lake continues to release new episodes of In The President’s Service, a groundbreaking series that first hit the market in 2014. Coming in October is The Fruitcake Murders, a comedy/whodunit set in Chicago in the days just after World War II. In 2015, Ace released a new novel, Hollywood Lost, a mystery from Abingdon Fiction set against the backdrop of the motion picture business in 1936.

He has also been the featured speaker at the National Archives Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted a network television special and does college basketball play-by-play. His catalog includes novels, biographies, children’s works as well as books on history, culture and faith. In that capacity, Ace has authored more than seventy books for 25 different publishers that have sold more than 2.5 million copies. Citing his Arkansas heritage, Christy Award winning author Ace Collins defines himself as a storyteller.
