Last week, on the 4th of July, we celebrated the 235th anniversary of the birth of the United States of America. But what exactly were we celebrating? Was it merely the beginning of a Revolution, the founding of a new nation, or was it, perhaps, something more...an experiment in governance whose impact would change the way the world perceived both nations and kings?At the very heart of July 4th

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending an early screening for the latest Narnia movie - Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Knowing that the film is being released this weekend, I am anxious to share my thoughts about the film with you in time for you to make your holiday movie going plans.Dawn Treader has always been one of my favorite books in the Narnia series (alongside Magician's

Lately the Miller Brothers have been feeling a bit "blue". Not because they are sad, and it's not because they are HUGE Seahawks fans spreading team spirit, and they didn't lose a bet or anything like that. It's because their friend Brock Eastman has received his first book publishing deal. His 5-book series The Quest for Truth, will be released by P&R Publishing starting with the first book "

Remember last year when Hunter Brown's first adventure was in the running for the prestigious Clive Staples Award (named after CS Lewis) for the best Christian Speculative Fiction book of the year? Well, now our second Hunter Brown book (Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire) has been nominated as well and it's up to you to help it rise to the top this year. Read on...First off, we consider it a

We've been monitoring our Amazon.com sales rank recently and noticed something peculiar. From the data we've gathered some of the bestselling authors in our category are just over one-hundred copies ahead of us in sales this month.This gave us an idea...(a pretty crazy idea that could potentially earn our book "amazon bestseller" status in our category)...but we need your help! It's only 3 steps

Writing books can be an emotionally draining experience. With all that has been going on in our life this year, we've hardly had time to properly celebrate the most exciting news of all. As of last Friday (April 30) at 9 minutes before midnight, Hunter Brown Book 3 was officially sent off to the editor. Hip, hip, hooray!Early response from our publisher is that this is our best work yet.The book

At least we only hope it is "growing up" and not "blowing up!"Many of the faithful fans of our books series website Codebearers.com have probably noticed we've had a few growing pains of late. Our most recent member count is 3,843 members (and growing!) The added activity has resulted in some rough stretches as our site has experienced some ups and downs.In response, we are embarking on an

Each year, a select group of books are nominated by readers to receive the Clive Staples Award for Christian Speculative Fiction (Named for C.S. Lewis the famed author of The Chronicles of Narnia book series). This year, we are happy to announce that Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow has made the short list. There are 15 excellent books to choose from this year. It is truly an honor to be

Our heads grew a bit today. It's not our fault...you can blame it on our publishers if you'd like. You see, it was their idea to submit our books to these silly award things that nobody wins. We tried to warn them - award winning authors are not just a dime a dozen and even though you believe in us...we're just not THAT good.Boy were we wrong.Early this morning we received a giggly phone call

Hey guys, Spirit 105.3 is doing a radio advertisement for our latest book Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire. It's part of their new "book club" promotion and they are looking for reviews from people who have read it. Post your comment on the Spirit1053.com website to help tell others about the book too.http://www.spirit1053.com/familyfun.php?articleID=199

WIN ONE OF THREE COPIES OF CHUCKS BOOKS...WATCH THE SHOW TO FIND OUT HOW!Today we're honored to have author of the Kingdom Series and the Knights of Arrethtrae join us for our LIVE webcast (3pm PST, 6pm Eastern). Chuck Black is joining us via chat as well as a prerecorded in-studio video interview we made with him this past Saturday.If you've yet to read Chuck's work you are in for a treat. Join

The first shipment of Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire has arrived at the publisher's shipping dock today. Hip-hip-hooray!

So, I'm a huge fan of the Peter and the Starcatcher series. The books were co-authored by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and are nothing short of amazing. After all, co-authored books ROCK! Okay, so the first three books are listed below and if you haven't yet read them start them right away. You'll be glad you did. (Besides, it will help you pass the time until our next Hunter Brown book comes

Today, Wednesday July 22nd at 3PM we begin our Weekly Webcast Wednesday program on MillerBrothersBooks.com. We'll celebrate Allan's Birthday (a day late) and talk about the new book coming out on 9-9-09. Join the conversation via live chat and we'll look forward to seeing you there. Just visit http://www.MillerBrothersBooks.com and click on the Video Chat tab to join in. It's that simple.See you

We were honored today to hear that Focus on the Family has recently chosen our children's book "The Legend of Ten-Gallon Sam and the Perilous Mine" as one of their top ten Family-Friendly Books of 2008. For those of you who are not familiar with our children's books you can read more about them by visiting the http://www.heroesofpromise.com/ website or read the review on Focus on the Family's

Our author friend Bryan Davis is meeting with a major motion picture company in 45 min about distributing a film adaptation of his book series Dragons in Our Midst. Please pray for him and his producer as they pitch the storyboards (which, by the way, look amazing).

Fellow Codebearers, the next level of the online game is now active. It is called "The Chamber" and it takes the book codes to a whole new level.Visit www.Codebearers.com today and try your hand at it now.

GIVEAWAY!! A fellow blogger is giving away the first book in the Passages series by Paul McCusker, Darien's Rise. Contest ends July 30th. Click here to post and for rules for the contest.

We had a great time at the block party tonight. Sold some books, got a tan, made some friends and even met a couple of budding and published authors who I look forward to chatting with again someday soon. Oh...one more thing...shortly after setting up our display Allan got stung right on the elbow by a rogue bee with a temper tantrum. It was a hit and run kind of thing...we never saw the bee

Join us on the air, July 11th 2009, for our scheduled interview with Bongo Rod and the Coconut Hut Radio Show. All we can say is that the interview is entirely unscripted and "a little bit nutty". If you've ever wondered what the Miller Brother's favorite junk food is, or how Chris Miller sounds with his nose plugged you might want to tune in.Visit www.coconuthutradioshow.com to listen live!

We released an updated homepage today on the www.Codebearers.com website. Included in the new homepage design is a sneak peek at some concept artwork from Book 2 in the Codebearers series (Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire). More changes to come soon, but hope this gives you something to talk about as we build up to releasing new content around the next book.

That previous post was on April 1st! There will be no animated Code"bears" series. All in good fun! Have a blessed week everyone...and keep an eye out for some more Codebearer challenges coming your way in the next few weeks. The next phase of the challenges starts soon!

We're thrilled to announce that after months of pitching the idea of an animated series based on the Codebearers books, we've finally landed a deal with a major network! Of course, as with all TV adaptations, a few minor modifcations were required to swing this deal, but we still think the heart of it stayed true. In the end it boiled down to droping an extra "er" at the end of Codebearer to make

After countless cases of Mt. Dew, Mocha Frapachino, Gatorade and Shaklee Energy Tea drinks (a.k.a. creative juice); after dozens of late-nighters, all-nighters and giant night-crawlers (a.k.a. "fangworms" in the book); after hours of blood, sweat, tears (yes, we did cry) and good ol' fashioned writing, rewriting and re-rewriting, Allan and I have at long last managed to put the wraps on the final

According to Technorati, Hunter Brown took the #1 spot as the most popular book on blogs today. Thanks to all who have been chatting about our book out there...please keep spreading the word!http://technorati.com/pop/books/