Author Archive

Slow Down, Authors

Reality Check # 2 coming soon, but until then: Go see Athol Dickson’s post at Charis Connection on slowing down the frenetic pace of publishing. Required reading for anyone thinking about writing fiction in CBA, imho.

ACFW Dos and Don’ts

I’m on this list of folks blogging about the upcoming ACFW conference, which is one of the best, in case you didn’t catch that from any of the other bloggers. So, from an editor’s perspective, let me offer some dos and don’ts that apply to any conference you might attend as an aspiring author… Do know why the name was
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RANDOM HOUSE, INC. ACQUIRES MULTNOMAH PUBLISHERS

RANDOM HOUSE, INC. ACQUIRES MULTNOMAH PUBLISHERS TO EXPAND DOUBLEDAY BROADWAY’S EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN PUBLISHING (August 3, 2006)—Random House, Inc., the largest English-language trade book publisher, announced today that it has purchased one of the nation’s leading evangelical Christian book publishing houses, Multnomah Publishers. The Oregon-based Multnomah publishes more than 100 new titles annually by such popular authors as Randy Alcorn, Shaunti
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Multnomah Publishing to Random House?

Everyone’s been asking me what I can tell about the rumors of Random House buying Multnomah. And of course, the answer is, I have nothing to say. Supposedly, facts are coming soon, but while it’s still a matter of public interest, here’s a short bit on ICRS (and the Multnomah sale) from Edmonton Journal.

This just in!: Ankeny Briefcase partners with Relief Journal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Burnside Writers Collective and Relief Journal to Partner on Ankeny Briefcase Burnside Writers Collective and Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression have announced that they will be partnering to produce the long-awaited Ankeny Briefcase as an anthology of short stories by unpublished and lightly-published authors. Kimberly Culbertson, Editor-In-Chief of Relief, states, “We realized that our goals were similar
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