FREEFALL INTO LITERATURE
Meet
Ace
Citing his Arkansas heritage, Christy award winner Ace Collins defines himself as a
storyteller. In that capacity, Collins has authored more than 110 books that have sold
more than 2.5 million copies for 25 different publishers. His catalog includes novels,
biographies, and children’s works as well as books on history, culture, and faith. He has
also been the featured speaker at the National Archives Distinguished Lecture Series,
hosted a network television special, and has appeared on all the morning TV shows.
The Last Imprint was released in early 2024. This project is the author’s most creative
yet. In fact, it also defies description. It’s science fiction, action adventure, romance,
intrigue, political, and mystery with a bit of romance. It’s almost like Stephen King, Dan
Brown, and Tom Clancy all come together to create a new literally genre.
The twenty-second in the In The President’s Service series will be released in the fall of
2025 and is called Innocent Guilt. This novel is a part of the action/adventure series that
follow the exploits of World War II heroine Helen Meeker and her team of investigators
as they match with the world’s most evil forces. The series includes A Date with Death,
The Dark Pool, Blood Brother, Fatal Addiction, The Devil’s Eyes, The Dead Can Talk,
Bottled Madness, Shadows in the Moonlight, Evilution, Uneasy Alliance, The 13th Floor,
The White Rose, The Red Suit Case, The Cat’s Eye, Set for Danger, The Trojan Horse,
The Wolf Pack, Set for Danger, Black and White, Kryptonite, and No Greater Gift . In
2018, Elk Lake also released a new, updated version of The Yellow Packard, a whodunit
that launched the Helen Meeker character. More episodes in this series are scheduled for
the years to come. In the President’s Service has also been adapted as a radio drama.
Those programs are now airing on a number of podcast networks.
In the Line of Fire the third in the award-winning series of true dog stories, was published
by Abingdon Press in 2018. The first in this series was Man’s Best Hero and the second
was Service Tales.
Ace’s 2016 nonfiction release was The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. This was the
author’s ninth Christmas title and his second devotional project set against the backdrop
of the holidays. In 2015, Ace released Hollywood Lost, a mystery about the motion
picture business in 1936, The Fruitcake Murders, a comedy/whodunit that takes place in
Chicago in the days just after World War II, and The Color of Justice, a courtroom novel
that won the 2015 Christy for Suspense Book of the Year.
Ace’s first devotional book, Music for Your Heart, was released in late 2013 earning numerous five-star reviews, and a fall novel, The Cutting Edge, mixed suspense, romance, and intrigue in a tale of survival and victory. In the summer of 2013, Ace’s novel from Abingdon, Darkness Before Dawn, earned scores of great reviews and was chosen by several different book clubs and publications as one of the top reads of 2013. This novel also made the most inspiring book list on iTunes in July and Hope for Women’s “Top Five Summer Reads.”
Collins’s publishing history includes the novels Farraday Road, Swope’s Ridge, and Jefferson Burke and the Secret of the Lost Scroll for Zondervan, The Yellow Packard from Barbour, Reich of Passage for Bay Forest, and The Christmas Star for Abingdon. In nonfiction, Collins has scored bestsellers with The Cathedrals, Lassie A Dog’s Life, Turn Your Radio On, The Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, Father Does Know Best, and The Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas. His books have been made into two network television specials and a CBS movie, and The Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas hit #3 on the Amazon bestselling list for all books and #1 in several other categories.
Beyond books, Collins has penned more than 2000 magazine features, appeared on every network’s morning television show, as well as news and entertainment programming on CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC, and does scores of radio interviews each year. His speaking engagements have taken him from churches and corporations to the America’s Dog Museum in St. Louis and the National Archives in Washington DC. Collins has penned several production shows and regularly speaks to college classes on the art of writing. Ace’s hobbies include sports, restoring classic cars, watching, and reading about classic films, tinkering with Wurlitzer jukeboxes, and playing guitar. He carries on his late wife Dr. Kathy Collins’ work mentoring college students. He lives in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and has two grown sons and daughter.
Ace is represented by Arise Creative Entertainment of Nashville, Tennessee.
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