Daniel Leaves Nelson; Fortress Author at National Press Club

by Lynn Garrett, Religion BookLine -- Publishers Weekly, 2/14/2007

Greg Daniel, v-p and associate publisher at Thomas Nelson’s W Publishing imprint, is leaving the company on April 1 to found his own literary agency, Daniel Literary Group, which will be based in Nashville. Daniel told RBL, “We will represent both CBA and ABA authors across a variety of categories.” While at W over the past 5 ½ years, Daniel acquired such authors as Brian McLaren, Mark Buchanan, George Foreman and David Aikman.

Robert M. Franklin, author of Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities (Fortress Press, Feb.), will speak on February 20 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. As part of the Fortress Forum, Franklin—distinguished professor of social ethics at Emory University—will be joined in a panel discussion by E.J. Dionne (moderator), op-ed columnist for The Washington Post; Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund; Hugh Price, former president of the National Urban League andsenior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Cheryl Sanders, senior pastor at the Third Street Church of God in Washington, D.C., and professor of Christian ethics at Howard University; and Jim Wallis, president and executive director of Sojourners/ Call to Renewal and the author of God’s Politics. For more information on Franklin’s book and the forum—which is open to the public—go to www.augsburgfortress.org.