September 30, 2019 Edition

Today is last day for Christian Book Award® submissions

Today, September 30, is the last day to submit your titles for the 2020 Christian Book Award® program, the oldest and most prestigious awards program in the religious publishing industry. Presented annually to the finest in Christian publishing, the Christian Book Award® program honors the “best of the year” in 12 categories, including Audio. The finalists and the winners in each category, plus the Christian Book of the Year, will be celebrated at the annual ECPA Awards Celebration dinner on May 5, 2020 at the ECPA Leadership Summit in Nashville.

Submission Instructions

2019 Christy Award Gala will include tribute to “inspirational fiction pioneer” Janette Oke

The Christy Award Gala, held on November 6 in Nashville to honor the finalists and announce the winners of The Christy Award®, will also include a special tribute to the legacy of JANETTE OKE.  Oke, considered the pioneer of inspirational fiction, will be honored that evening in recognition of the 40th anniversary year of her seminal classic “Love Comes Softly,” which has sold more than 1.6 million copies and was made into one of the most watched series of the Hallmark Channel.  In 2020 Hallmark is renewing the seventh season of the When Calls the Heart television series, based on Janette’s book series of the same name.  Her more than 70 novels have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into 14 languages.  The evening dinner event will also feature award-winning fiction authors JAMES RUBART, BECKY WADE, and PATTI CALAHAN.

Tickets are now on sale for both the Awards Gala and the preceding Art of Writing Conference with Lysa TerKeurst, at a bundle rate of $119.

Register at ChristyAwards.com

Customize your professional development, grow your network, and be inspired in your publishing role… all within two days at PubU

Calling all Christian publishing professionals:  Customize your professional development at ECPA PubU, held November 5-6 in Nashville, with more than 40 sessions to choose among in Design, Editorial, Digital Marketing, Reader Engagement & Publicity, Data, Delivery & Workflow – and a special track of sessions for Emerging Leaders.  Connect with industry colleagues and leaders from within your publishing community and across multiple publishing disciplines.  In addition, plenary sessions with Proverbs 31 president Lysa TerKeurst and the Rabbit Room’s Andrew Peterson will offer remarkable opportunities for training, inspiration and context for what you do – all included in 24-hours within 2 days and one low registration fee.

Nearly 50 industry experts to present sessions at PubU
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Hotel group rates for industry Nashville events on November 5-6, to expire end of week

Hotel group rates for the ECPA PubU and Christy Award events taking place in Nashville on November 5-6 expire end of this week on October 5. For PubU attendees, please go to the PubU hotel page to choose among the options. For Christy-only event attendees, please go to the Christy events registration page.

Q&A with Max Lucado on Bible Gateway blog on “How Happiness Happens”

What does it mean to have lasting happiness in an uncertain world filled with discord and turmoil, and that, for all its promises, delivers a fragile joy: here one day, tomorrow scattered by the winds of comparison, disappointment, or unmet expectations? What instruction does the Bible give for a person to be satisfyingly happy? In this Q&A on the Bible Gateway blog, Max Lucado (@MaxLucado) talks about his book, “How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations” (Thomas Nelson, 2019).

Read this interview.

Bible Gateway interviews Clay Scroggins, author of “How to Lead in a World of Distraction”

As a leader, how do you learn to tune-out distractions—busyness, the numbing nature of entertainment and social media, the urgency of ministry itself—without growing deaf to the inner vision and issues you need to listen to? What are the common white noises in leadership and ministry that you use to mask your unpleasant emotions and ignore the desires deep inside of you? Bible Gateway interviewed Clay Scroggins (@clayscroggins), author of “How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Maximizing Your Influence by Turning Down the Noise” (Zondervan, 2019).

Read this interview.