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It Is Written: News in Bibles and Sacred Texts, February 2013
A gorgeous Esther Scroll facsimile; Bible stories for kids collected; a new translation begun.
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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion and Spirituality Books, February 2013
An NFL vet’s story of loss and faith; Kingsbury’s newest plumbs forgiveness.
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Leaving Extreme Religions Behind: PW Talks with Susan Tive and Cami Ostman
Women who left strict religious communities tell their stories of liberation and loss.
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Witness to the Fire: Charles Johnson
A key witness in the Mississippi Burning trial of 1964, Charles Johnson is one of the South's last remaining Civil Rights leaders.
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Extreme Makeover Haggadah: Books for Passover
A bold new version of the Passover story, and other books for kids and adults that illuminate the holiday or examine what it means to be Jewish.
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Developing-world Religion Scholars Take Home a Wealth of Books
The Theological Book Network and Wheaton (Ill.) College faculty and have donated 4,000 books to Christian theological schools in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
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Publishers Scrambling to Get Benedict Books Back into Retail Channels
Sales of books by and about Pope Benedict XVI had a nice sales bump after his surprise resignation on February 11, but publishers are hoping that with shelves restocked sales numbers will grow.
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Debut Novelist Sells Television Pilot to CBS
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, author of the debut novel Pastors’ Wives, has sold to CBS a television pilot inspired by her late father, a former Catholic priest.
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Religion Update February 2013: Marketing, Publicity Efforts Sprint to Keep Up with Rapid Change
The combination of readers’ changing habits and a depressed economy has made marketing and promoting physical and digital books increasingly challenging.
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Religion Update February 2013: Publishers Seek Old Favorites with New Twists
Publishers of Christian fiction aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel when it comes to new genres and topics.
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Religion Update February 2013: Digital Publishing Strategies Roll with the Punches
Christian fiction readers sure do love their e-books. Between Q1 and Q3 last year, they bought 31.7% of their titles in e-book form, according to Bowker Market Research. That puts Christian fiction among the industry’s most digitized segments. Across all publishing categories, only 21.6% of total book sales were e-books.
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Religion Update February 2013: Christian Fiction, Still Vital, Faces Challenges
Fiction continues to be a mainstay for Christian publishers as they tap into an audience eager to follow favorite authors, find new content, and welcome fresh voices, and publishers employ a number for strategies for their programs to achieve those goals.
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Religion Update February 2013: Morality and Satire: Erin McGraw
In her newest novel, Better Food for a Better World (Wipf and Stock/Slant), Erin McGraw says she continues to delve into the theme of what it takes to be a good person. But this time she uses a new approach: satire.
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Religion Update February 2013: Regency Pioneer: Julie Klassen
What’s so Christian about the stories of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters?
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Religion Update February 2013: The God of Second Chances: Katie Ganshert
The general plot of Katie Ganshert’s second novel, Wishing on Willows could easily be a feature story in any small town American newspaper.
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Religion Update February 2013: The Faith of Pastors’ Wives: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
It’s still a bit new for Lisa Takeuchi Cullen to be the subject of an interview. She is accustomed to being the interviewer; until 2009 she was a foreign correspondent and staff writer for Time magazine, and before that worked for Money, Financial Planning, and Ladies’ Home Journal.
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Religion Update February 2013: Tea and Empathy: Lisa Samson
After 20 years of writing and publishing novels, Christy Award–winner Lisa Samson decided to take an extended break.
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Religion Update February 2013: Cat on a Mission: Jim Kraus
To say that Jim Kraus’s life is enriched by the animals who share his family’s home—a miniature schnauzer named Rufus and an “ill-tempered” Siberian cat named Petey—would be an understatement.
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HC Christian Publishing CFO Steps Down
Stuart Bitting, CFO of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, has resigned. Stepping in as interim interim finance team leader is Troy Edens, SVP and controller.
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