November 16, 2020 Edition

Industry News

Logos Bible Software launches Kerusso Collective to integrate Black voices and scholars

Logos Bible Software, the best-selling digital Bible study tool preferred by the world's leading scholars and created by Faithlife, announced the formation of the Kerusso Collective, a select group of respected Black faith leaders and scholars who will lead the intentional integration and assimilation of Black voices and representation into Logos.

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Popular Bible App YouVersion is now available in 1,500 languages

The number of available languages has grown steadily throughout the last decade. In 2012, the 100-language threshold was reached. By 2014, the number had risen to 500 and by 2016 to 1000. Last month, the 1500 milestone was achieved.

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ECPA to present Industry Awards Celebration webcast on Wednesday

This Wednesday at 2 pm central time, ECPA will present a webcast dedicated to honoring the industry’s milestones in 2020 – including the presentation of Sales Milestone Awards to 70 titles that received Bronze, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond awards.  In addition, the Kenneth N. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to industry veteran STAN GUNDRY, Senior VP & Publisher and Editor-in-Chief for HarperCollins Christian Publishing, for his 40+ year impact on Christian publishing.  And the Pinnacle Award will be presented to bestselling author STORMIE OMARTIAN for the exceptional impact of The Power of a Praying® series, which has sold over 31 million units worldwide.

The webcast will conclude the ECPA C-Suite Connect online conference for the industry’s C-level executives, which started today.  ECPA members are invited to register for Wednesday’s free webcast.  Contact ECPA.

Milestones

ECPA announces the winners of The Christy Award®

ECPA named the 2020 winners of The Christy Award® in nine fiction categories during the Christy Award Winners Webcast on Thursday evening, along with the Christy Book of the Year.  The online event was viewed by an estimated 500+ authors and writers, publishers and industry professionals, readers and fans, to honor the year’s best in Christian fiction – and featured New York Times bestselling author LISA WINGATE as keynote and award-winning novelist CHRIS FABRY as emcee.

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Debut novelist Amanda Dykes wins the 2020 Christy Book of the Year Award

On Thursday, November 12, ECPA announced the 2020 Christy Award winners in a virtual webcast. Three Baker Publishing Group authors were recipients of this prestigious award including Amanda Dykes, whose debut novel “Whose Waves These Are” (Bethany House) received the 2020 Christy Book of the Year Award. “Whose Waves These Are” also won a Christy Award in the General Fiction category.

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Two Tyndale House novels win 2020 Christy Awards

Tyndale House Publishers is pleased to announce that two Tyndale fiction titles and authors have won 2020 Christy Awards. The Christy Award celebrates excellence in the art of Christian fiction and honors the power of faith in story. Tyndale House Publishers’ authors and titles were awarded as follows…

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Books & Such authors take top honors at Christy Awards

Books & Such Literary Management authors were well represented among the select novelists who received Christy Awards during the November 12, 2020 virtual awards event. Of the nine category winners, three were Books & Such authors.

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Dr. Theon Hill is named to Civil Society Fellowship, part of Aspen Global Leadership Network

Today, the Anti-Defamation League and the Aspen Institute announced the Class of 2020 and 2021 of the Civil Society Fellowship, a program to prepare and engage the next generation of community and civic leaders from across the political spectrum. Dr. Theon E. Hill, Associate Professor at Wheaton College — who has spoken at several ECPA events, served on the ECPA PubU Brain Trust, and most recently led a very well received Diversity & Inclusion track at ECPA PubU Online — is one of 49 named to the prestigious program. “This Fellowship cultivates the next generation of purpose-driven, values-based leaders—exactly what America needs right now,” said Dan Porterfield, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute.

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Product News

Lisa Sharon Harper signs new contract with Brazos Press

Lisa Sharon Harper has signed a new contract with Brazos Press to publish Fortune, a journey into her family’s past to understand how race broke the world. The book is slated to release in the fall of 2021. Thanks to DNA testing and archives, Lisa Sharon Harper has spent three decades learning about her family history, discovering the hopes and dreams of ancestors whose legacies would otherwise be lost to history.

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FaithWords releases Joel Osteen’s newest book, “Empty Out the Negative”

New York Times bestselling author and the Senior Pastor of America's largest church, Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, invites readers to let go of the negative and focus on the positive to make room for JOY in his new book, “Empty Out the Negative: Make Room for More Joy, Greater Confidence, and New Levels of Influence” (FaithWords/Hachette Book Group, November 10, 2020).

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