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Agent Buys Christian SF House Marcher Lord
Literary agent Steve Laube has acquired Christian science fiction publisher Marcher Lord Press. Laube, a former editor at Bethany House who now owns an eponymous shingle, finalized the sale on January 1.
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Short Takes: Religion Publishing News Briefs, December 2013
Awards and honors; Family Christian Stores Funding Haiti Orphanage.
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December 2013 Christian Marketplace Bestsellers: Adult, Children's and Young Adult, Bibles
Your guide to the mega-sellers in Christian books and Bibles.
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It Is Written: News in Bibles and Sacred Texts, December 2013
Bible Gateway's mobile/tablet app was honored as app of the year at the recent Christian New Media Awards.
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The Old Made New: Bibles and Sacred Texts
When it comes to Bible publishing, too much is evidently never enough. A Bible or other sacred text is a reliable product for a core audience, but the range of editions for all of these texts targets more than believers.
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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion and Spirituality Books, December 2013
The late theologian-activist Walter Wink writes about his lifetime faith journey in his last book; Bible teacher Jennie Allen looks at the process of responding to God's call.
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PW Reveals 5 Best Religion Books of 2013
From nonfiction to novels, PW's Best Religion Books of 2013 are characterized by honest wrestling with the Bible and with received wisdom, the Big Questions of life and death, and the little everyday ones. Those questions are familiar, but the voices giving well-written answers are fresh.
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Joel Baden: King David’s Feats of Clay
Mention King David to most people, and you’ll only hear good things. But Yale Divinity School professor Joel Baden probes the historical evidence to reveal a David who achieved and maintained power by any means necessary, sometimes in a less-than-heroic way.
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Beyond Evangelical Clichés: Addie Zierman
When Addie Zierman began writing in grad school, she ended up sorting through her evangelical upbringing, struggling with disillusionment, and finding her way back to faith.
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Beyond Words Turns 30
Everybody knows The Secret now.
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Grisham Out at Hachette’s Jericho Imprint
Wendy Grisham, v-p and publisher of Hachette’s Jericho Books imprint, is leaving the company as part of what Rolf Zettersten, senior v-p of Hachette Nashville, called a “scaling back” of title output.
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Academic Publishing Alive and Thriving as Religion Scholars Meet
At the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature meetings in Baltimore--a place to sell books to scholars, pitch them for course adoptions, and meet with authors, current and prospective--publishers said the academic market looks good, with print sales relatively stable and digital sales adding to revenues.
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Islam Tops the List, but Other Topics on the Rise in Scholarly Religion
The leader was Islam, but other notable topics and trends in academic religion publishing emerged at the 2013 AAR/SBL conference, reflecting not only the interests of scholars, but also the concerns of the wider public.
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Mark Larrimore: Job Through the Ages
Mark Larrimore had his first experience with the Book of Job when he played a bit part in Archibald MacLeish’s play J.B., a dramatization of the Bible’s famous rumination on suffering. “I was the messenger who brought all the news of the deaths of Job’s family,” Larrimore says. Now Larrimore is a messenger of a different kind.
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Short Takes: Religion Publishing News Briefs, November 2013
Awards and honors; a fiction event on Facebook; from film to novel; new apps for the soul.
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Freedom in the Rule: PW Talks with Judith Valente
When television reporter Judith Valente first arrived at Mount St. Scholastica Monastery in Atchison, Kansas, she expected to give a talk at the retreat center and return home to Illinois. She had no idea she was in for a life-changing experience.
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Refreshing Judaism: PW Talks with Bradley Shavit Artson
A rabbi presents a fresh articulation of Judaism through the lens of process theology, elucidating a dynamic view of the God of Israel, as well as the deeper meanings of revelation, Jewish law, and religious practice.
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It Is Written: News in Bibles and Sacred Texts, November 2013
The Bible’s been translated into lots of vernaculars. Now for today’s plugged-in, short-attention-span, socially-mediated believers comes The Twible, providing a 140-character shortcut through the Bible’s begats, levitical interdictions, and sundry smitings.
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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion and Spirituality Books, November 2013
The books that didn't make it into the Christian Bible get a new examination, and a community activist shares everyday sacred moments.
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Tarcher, iUniverse Launch New Self-Pub Imprint
Penguin imprint Tarcher, publisher of mind-body-spirit books, has forged a partnership with iUniverse to launch True Directions, an imprint for authors to self-publish books in the category.
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