Top Shelf Book Cover Award submission deadline is August 31

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Top Shelf Book Cover Award submission deadline is August 31 ECPA publishers are invited to showcase their best book and Bible designs of the year by nominating them for the Top Shelf Book Cover Award this month. The program celebrates the year’s best book designs in Christian publishing and is judged each year by top designers. Winners will be announced on November 12 during the ECPA PubU Online conference.  Submission deadline is August 31. More…

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7 Reasons Authors Should Use a Book Trailer

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It’s safe to say most people are familiar with movie trailers. They used to be shown in theaters before the feature film starts (if you get there soon enough to watch them). Trailers provide 2-3 minutes of some of the best clips from the film with an intriguing voiceover script that leaves you begging for more (or so the producers hope). Even after a film is released, potential viewers watch movie trailers to decide whether or not they think the…

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Christianity Today call for “CT Book Award” nominations

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Christianity Today call for “CT Book Award” nominations Call for 2020 Book Award Nominations CAROL STREAM, Ill., June 5, 2019 — Christianity Today is calling for submissions for the 2020 Christianity Today Book Awards. The CT Book Awards, along with our “Beautiful Orthodoxy” Book of the Year, will be announced in December at ChristianityToday.com. Winners will be featured prominently in the January/February 2020 issue of CT and widely promoted in CT newsletters and on the site. Publishers of the winning books will have…

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IVP honored with four 2019 Christianity Today Book Awards

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IVP honored with four 2019 Christianity Today Book Awards WESTMONT, IL—Christianity Today has released the winners of its 2019 Book Awards, and InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that it received top honors in four categories: Church/Pastoral Leadership, Fiction, Missions/Global Church, and Politics and Public Life. IVP also received the Award of Merit in the Apologetics/Evangelism category. The IVP title that received the 2019 Book of the Year in the Church/Pastoral Leadership category was Preaching as Reminding: Stirring Memory in an Age of Forgetfulness by…

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ECPA Announces the Finalists for the 18th Annual CHRISTY AWARDS™ 

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ECPA Announces the Finalists for the 18th Annual CHRISTY AWARDS™  Winners to be Announced at Christian Fiction Gala at Lipscomb University in Nashville on November 8. Awards and Gala Celebrate Excellence in Christian Fiction and Storytelling. Tempe, AZ – Today, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) has announced the finalists for the 18th annual CHRISTY AWARDS™. Winners will be announced at the awards gala, taking place on November 8 at Lipscomb University in Nashville TN, which will be hosted by Best-Selling Christian Authors Karen Kingsbury, Andrew Peterson and Chris Fabry….

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Titles announced as “BEST OF THE YEAR” in 11 categories

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Titles announced as “BEST OF THE YEAR” in 11 categories. SHAKEN by Tim Tebow is named Christian Book of the Year®. Colorado Springs, CO., May 3, 2017 – The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) announced last night the winners of the 2017 Christian Book Awards® in 11 categories and the 2017 Christian Book of the Year®. The winning titles represent the best Christian book and Bible releases of the year. The 2017 Christian Book of the Year went to New York Times…

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Four IVP Titles Named Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalists

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Four IVP Titles Named Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalists WESTMONT, IL—InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to announce that four IVP titles have been recognized as finalists inForeword Reviews’ nineteenth annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Finalists were narrowed down byForeword’s editors from over 2,200 individual titles spread across sixty-five categories. IVP books were chosen as finalists in the following categories: Religion (Adult Nonfiction) Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering by internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura was inspired by Shusaku…

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Seven Abingdon Press Books Receive Finalist Standing from Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Awards

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Seven Abingdon Press Books Receive Finalist Standing from Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Awards (Nashville, TN) – Abingdon Press was honored by the 2016 Foreword Reviews’ IndieFab Book of the Year Awards with seven finalist titles. Foreword’s IndieFab Book of the Year Awards program was created to discover distinctive books from the indie publishing community across a number of genres. The award winners, which will be determined by a select group of librarians and booksellers from around the country, will be announced at the 2017 American Library Association…

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The Christy Award™ nominations open on Wednesday with expanded categories

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The Christy Award™ nominations open on Wednesday with expanded categories Nominations for The Christy Award™ Christian fiction program will be accepted this week and throughout the month, March 1-31, in nine categories:  GENERAL; CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE; HISTORICAL ROMANCE; HISTORICAL; MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/THRILLER; VISIONARY; FIRST NOVEL; YOUNG ADULT; and SHORT FORMAT.  Submissions are open to works of fiction written from a Christian worldview, published traditionally or independently from January 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017.  Though ECPA is now the administrator of the program, submitting publishers do not…

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Two Baker Publishing Group Titles Win Word Awards

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Two Baker Publishing Group Titles Win Word Awards Contact: Lynnae Lubbers (616)676-9185 x193 llubbers@bakerpublishinggroup. com Ada, Mich. (July 15, 2016)—The Word Guild announced the winners of their 2016 Word Awards at their gala on June 24, and they selected two Baker Publishing Group titles as winners. Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics by Craig G. Bartholomew won in the Academic category and also received honorable mention for the Grace Irwin Prize, Canada’s largest literary prize for Christian writers. Desperate Measures by Sandra Orchard won in the Suspense Novel…

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christianaudio wins Christian Retailing Best of the Year in the audio category for Fervent by Priscilla Shirer

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christianaudio wins Christian Retailing Best of the Year in the audio category for Fervent by Priscilla Shirer Contact: Drew Lawrence christianaudio.com (760)745-2411 ex.201 FERVENT, published in audio by christianaudio, has won the Christian Retailing Best of the Year in the audio category. Written and read by Priscilla Shirer, Fervent is a woman’s battle plan to serious, specific and strategic prayer. It has become a runaway best-seller and helped change the prayer lives of thousands of people. Cory Verner, Publisher of christianaudio offers, “We…

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Kregel, Lion Fiction, and Monarch Titles Named as Finalists in Foreword Reviews’ Awards

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Kregel, Lion Fiction, and Monarch Titles Named as Finalists in Foreword Reviews’ Awards Titles published by Kregel Publications, Lion Fiction, and Monarch Books have been chosen for special recognition by ForeWord Reviews, a print magazine and website devoted to independently published books.  Honored titles are A Necessary Grief  by Larry J. Michael from Kregel Ministry; A Cup of Dust by Susie Finkbeiner and Mercy’s Rain by Cindy K. Sproles from Kregel Publications; The Boy Who Loved Rain by Gerard Kelly…

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Three Winners of Jerry Jenkins Operation First Novel Contest Published

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Three Winners of Jerry Jenkins Operation First Novel Contest Published CONTACT: C. J. Darlington info@mountainviewbooks.com www.mountainviewbooks.com Dec 1, 2015, Hopeland, PA. – For over a decade Jerry Jenkins has searched for fresh Christian fiction talent through his Operation First Novel contest. For the first time, they have selected three winners for 2014. The books are being released both in paperback and ebook form by independent publisher Mountainview Books, LLC.  1st Place: The Calling of Ella McFarland by Linda Brooks Davis. This historical romance,…

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ECPA Announces Best Book Designs of 2015

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ECPA Announces Best Book Designs of 2015 Contact: Stan Jantz, Interim Executive Director, ECPA, 480-966-3998  sjantz@ecpa.org October 20, 2015, Wheaton Ill. – The cover designs of ten books and one Bible were named the industry’s best of the year at the opening session of the industry’s Publishing University (PUBu) being held at Wheaton College, October 19-20.  The Top Shelf Book Cover Awards are presented each year by ECPA to honor superb book design in Christian publishing. Eleven covers were chosen as the “stand out” designs of the year from…

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eChristian Wins Christian Retailing’s Best Audiobook Award

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 eChristian Wins Christian Retailing’s Best Audiobook Award  You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity, published by christianaudio and written and narrated by Francis and Lisa Chan won the 2015 Christian Retailing’s Best award in the audiobook category. The awards were held during the recent International Christian Retail Show in Orlando, Florida and Ted Terry from Noble Marketing was on hand to accept the award.  Cory Verner, President and Publisher for christianaudio, offered the following. “It is such a pleasure…

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