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Short Takes: Religion Publishing News Briefs, November 2012
B2B Web site from Barbour; Guideposts launches e-book shorts; Whitaker hires new sales director; literary festival for Christian writers in Baltimore; Hoort moves to Abingdon; new associate publisher for Novalis; Our Sunday Visitor has first mobile app.
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It Is Written: News in Bibles and Sacred Texts, November 2012
New children’s Bible from Lion; next-gen software from Logos; new HCSB spokesman for B&H; ESV apps from Crossway; RSV, NRSV up on BibleGateway.com.
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Christmas Past: Books for the Season Conjure Days of Yore
This year’s grab bag of books for the Christmas season contains more than the usual hefty helping of nostalgia. Novelists take readers as far afield as Victorian Scotland; an essayist remembers Christmas on the plains of South Dakota; a historian uncovers the real St. Nicholas.
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Purpose Driven Life Gets a 10th Anniversary Makeover: PW Talks with Rick Warren
Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, has created a 10th anniversary edition, with two new chapters, QR codes, and video and audio links. The original book, published in 2002, has sold 32 million copies in 50 languages.
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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion and Spirituality Books, November 2012
Books encourage learning not to fear death; explore both internal and external abundance; and more.
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December 2012 Christian Marketplace Bestsellers
Your guide to the mega-sellers in Christian books.
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Religion Scholars Gather in Chicago for Well-Attended Conference
Against a background of labor strife, the country’s religion scholars met in Chicago to talk shop and view religion publishers’ newest offerings for potential classroom adoption. The Nov. 17-20 Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion conference drew a larger number than last year’s conference in San Francisco, nearly 11,000 teachers and students.
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Karen Kingsbury: Building a Bridge
Karen Kingsbury’s first novel for a major New York house is set in a fictional bookstore where a young couple finds love and purpose. The prolific Christian fiction author has signed a 10-book deal with Simon & Shuster imprint Howard Books, so there’s much more to come, and S&S plans to take her deep into the general market.
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Family Christian Stores in Management, Investors Buyout
Family Christian Stores, the largest Christian retail chain, with 280 stores in 36 states, has been acquired from its private equity owners by the chain’s management team and three investors.
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Sarah Young: Amid Suffering, Devotion
Despite a massive bestseller, many invitations to speak, and such advance interest for her latest releases that initial print runs had to be upped, the author of the Jesus Calling devotional has remained in Perth, Western Australia—where she and her husband, Steve, are missionaries.
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Crown Launching New Religion Imprint
Random House’s Crown Publishing Group is launching a new religion imprint, Convergent Books. “Convergent will explore the contemporary faith experience for a broad range of Christians who are drawn to an open, inclusive, and culturally engaged exploration of faith,” the publisher states.
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Religion Editor's Note, October 2012
This issue of RBL comes to you a week late, courtesy of Hurricane Sandy. That means it’s fatter then ever, and you can find even more of our features, profiles, and Q&As on the religion page on PW’s Web site, where new content is being posted all the time.
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Cokesbury Stores to Close, Sales Will Move to Other Channels
The United Methodist Publishing House announced Monday it would begin closing its 38 full-line stores and 19 seminary bookstores, in order to sell books exclusively through its Web site, Cokesbury.com, its Cokesbury Call Center, at conferences and meetings, and through church events.
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James Tabor: Reassessing Paul
After his bestseller The Jesus Dynasty, which was a look behind the scenes at the life of the historical Jesus, James D. Tabor didn’t have to cast about very long to find the subject for his next book. “After spending so much time with the historical Jesus, a book on Paul seemed the next logical step.”
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Heaven, Afterlife Now the Promised Land for Publishers
Recent publishing history is replete with books that elevate heaven on the bestseller lists. 90 Minutes in Heaven was one of the first; Heaven Is For Real followed, and now Mary Neal’s To Heaven and Back has scored big. These days publishers are as eager to offer new books about heaven as readers are to grab them.
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Religion Editor’s Note, October 2012
It’s hard to know what to write about after the past few days. My thoughts are less with books and the business of publishing than with those who have been (and still will be) affected by Sandy. PW’s e-mail was knocked out by the storm, and we are still trying to get fully operational, so please excuse us if you have tried to get in touch and we haven’t responded. For information on publishers and related businesses in and around New York, there is a run-down of who is open and who is not in today’s PW Daily. If you have breaking news, you can reach our news department at millx005@optonline.net. It will be a while before life returns to a semblance of normal in the wake of the Super Storm. Meanwhile, for those of us who pray, now would be a good time.
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Short Takes: Religion Publishing News Briefs, October 2012
Christian retailers give Riskey the top spot and select a new board chairman; new C.S. Lewis bio and U.S./U.K. events mark the 50th anniversary of his death; Worthy recognized as start-up of the year; authors among those selected as “50 Women You Should Know.”
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November 2012 Christian Bestsellers: Adult, Children’s and Young Adult, Bibles
Your guide to the mega-sellers in Christian books.
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It Is Written: News in Bibles and Sacred Texts, October 2012
A kids’ Bible with room for their artwork; a new NRSV study Bible for teens and young adults; diving deep in the Apocrypha.
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Reviews of New and Forthcoming Religion and Spirituality Books, October 2012
A sociologist on how black churches are addressing HIV/AIDS and poverty; a high school-age author on the relevance of faith to her generation.
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