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These days it doesn't take long to change the face of marketing. According to Tom Dean, senior marketing director in the trade book division at Zondervan, The game has changed [...]

The International Christian Retail Show, July 10-13 in Atlanta, mirrors the evolution of the Christian publishing/ retail industry, which has struggled over the past 10 to 15 years to adapt [...]

Dale Cramer doesn't want to be typecast as a writer of Amish fiction. He's written three stand-alone novels without Amish themes or characters, along with Levi's Will (Bethany House, 2009), [...]

Publishers of inspirational fiction are blending new and Old tricks to tempt readers to buy, whether at Christian bookstores, megastores, or via the Internet. Past successes--print ads, shelf-talkers, word of [...]

Self-publishing was once the uninvited guest at the publishing table. But as technology advances and authors develop marketing savvy, first-time and even some experienced authors are turning more often to [...]

Janis Heaphy Durham didn't have herself in mind when she decided to write The Hand on the Mirror: A True Story of Life Beyond Death (Grand Central, Apr.). She wrote [...]

The mysteries of the afterlife continue to fascinate readers eager to know how they or their loved ones might fare after death, and publishers are just as eager to help [...]

Danny Gokey's memoir is about so much more than being on American Idol and his rise to fame after finishing in the final three during season eight. Hope in Front [...]

Patty Kirk's Christian equation used to look like this: Duty + Guilt = Spiritual Value. But experience and maturity has taught her to look past that burdensome spiritual math to [...]

For David Swanson, Everlasting Life (Baker Books, June) is the book he's always wanted to write. As senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Fla., he's been in many [...]

Caryn Rivadeneira has had her struggles as a mother of three. She's been short-tempered, locked herself in a room to avoid the kids, and stood by and watched while her [...]

Rolf Zettersten knew change was afoot more than a decade ago in his role as trade publisher bat Thomas Nelson. He'd been watching sales of religion books move increasingly into [...]

Dale Allison Memory and history Dale Allison spent most of a year reading everything he could about memory and how it works. That research changed the way he thinks and [...]

Sharon Garlough Brown When Sharon Garlough Brown attended Breathe: A Christian Writer's Workshop in 2009, she heard about publisher budget cuts, the time it takes to find an agent, the [...]

Anne Jackson has a pretty good bead on why folks are disillusioned with organized religion. 'Anyone who has spent a fair amount of time in church knows that we like [...]

An interview with Ralph H. Craig III, lecturer of religion at Dartmouth College is presented. When asked about Tina Turner's spiritual path, he refers to her combining Baptist and Pentecostal upbringing into a combinatory religious repertoire, focusing on her appeal to people from various backgrounds and the importance of always having a dream and a goal.