November 15, 2021 Edition

Industry News

Tyndale House and Church Answers announce new partnership

Tyndale House Publishers and Church Answers have announced the formation of a new ministry partnership aimed at serving and equipping local churches to thrive in their God-given mission.

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MetaComet unveils new Royalty Tracker platform

ECPA member and business solutions provider, MetaComet® Systems, has announced its cutting edge Royalty Tracker®, a state-of-the-art platform that provides publishers with the highest level of royalty automation available.

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IPG adds five publishers to distribution programs 

Independent Publishers Group (IPG) has added five new publishers to its trade and digital distribution divisions.

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Staff Announcements

WaterBrook names Leslie Calhoun Associate Editor for Ink & Willow

Laura Barker, VP and publisher WaterBrook and Multnomah, announced that Leslie Calhoun is taking on the role of Associate Editor for WaterBrook’s Ink & Willow line of creative product, effective immediately, reporting to Susan Tjaden, executive editor WaterBrook and Multnomah.

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Dave Nelson has been named Director of Baylor UP

Dave Nelson has been named director of Baylor University Press, effective January 4. Nelson joins Baylor University Press after a decade working acquisitions and editorial at Baker Academic and Brazos Press. He currently serves as editor of Lutheran Forum.

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Mountain Brook Ink hires new Publicity Manager

Tim Pietz has taken on the role of publicity manager at MBI. Pietz has previously worked with Tyndale House, Wheaton Press and Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas as a freelance editor.

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Milestones

ECPA presents Top Shelf Book Cover Award to 28 books and two Bibles

ECPA announced 30 winners of the 2021 Top Shelf Book Cover Award during a live broadcast of the closing session of ECPA PubU Online on Friday, wrapping up eight days of training and connection for Christian publishing professionals. A record number of designs were chosen as the year’s best.

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Illuminate Literary Agency celebrates 15 years

Illuminate Literary Agency announced its fifteen year anniversary as a national literary agency specializing in faith-based and inspirational nonfiction. The Oregon-based business was founded in 2006 by publishing veteran Don Jacobson, and originally known as D.C. Jacobson & Associates. In 2019, after thirteen years working with agency clients and publishers, Jenni Burke acquired the business from Jacobson, rebranding to Illuminate Literary Agency in 2020.

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Product News

Brian Zahnd signs two-book contract with IVP

Brian Zahnd, a popular conference speaker and author of “A Farewell to Mars,” has signed a contract for two more books with InterVarsity Press. The first of the two books, tentatively titled “The Wood Between the Worlds,” is scheduled to release in Winter 2023.

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Tommy Nelson releases “A Saint a Day” featuring daily historical stories for kids

Author Meredith Hines presents a new resource for learning about the lives of Saints and their legacies of faith for young believers in “A Saint a Day: 365 True Stories of Faith and Heroism” releasing Tuesday, Nov. 23.

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Charisma releases “Setting Broken Bones” by Penny Maxwell

Author Penny Maxwell recounts her traumatic childhood marked by poverty, abuse, and sexual assault and shares the hard truths she learned through her own healing journey in her powerful new book, “Setting Broken Bones: Let God Heal What Hurt You” (Charisma House).

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New Growth Press release focuses on reclaiming the Church for soul care

In “The Church as a Culture of Care: Finding Hope in Biblical Community” (New Growth Press), biblical counselor T. Dale Johnson Jr. explains that the church is still the primary place where those who struggle can receive lasting hope and healing.

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Media Announcements

CT presents webinar "Listening to Native American Christian Voices," with editor of First Nations translation

This week on November 18, CT will host a conversation with indigenous leaders on the power of faith, history, and culture.  The free webinar, titled “Heritage and Hope: Listening to Native American Christian Voices,” at 1 pm CST, will feature a diverse array of Native American leaders, including Terry M. Wildman, editor of IVP’s recently released First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament.

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Bible Gateway interviews Robert Morgan, author of “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”

Bible Gateway interviewed Robert J. Morgan about his book, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness: 52 Reasons to Trust God When Hope Feels Lost” (Thomas Nelson, 2021).

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Sadie Robertson Huff on Jesus Calling Podcast

Sadie Robertson Huff, author of new devotional “Live on Purpose” (Thomas Nelson) recently joined The Jesus Calling Podcast to share how she wanted to be faithful to the opportunity given to her to be a light.

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