News and notes about the Leslie H Stobbe Literary Agency and its authors
Mike Dellosso is known for his riveting suspense, usually with some supernatural element. Tyndale House is now releasing his eighth suspense novel, Centralia, and it is off to a great start.
Jim Daly and John Fuller of Focus on the Family Radio interviewed Carey Wickersham, author of The Wonder Within You, and broadcast it on March 17. The interview’s focus was on a woman’s most exciting and most difficult experience, that of giving life to a baby.
When Christine Hoover’s first book, The Church Planting Wife, was released by Moody Publishing, editors at two other large publishers took notice. Suddenly she was an author in demand because of her skill as a writer on an important topic. But when she developed a proposal for what she wanted to write in her second book, her publisher and one other publisher decided it was not for them. That left Baker Books in the running—and they issued a contract for it.
The 2015 winners of the Second Annual Illumination Book Awards of the Independent Publisher group have been announced. The awards are designed to honor and bring increased recognition to the year’s best new titles written and published with a Christian worldview.
Here’s a message received by a client, Janet Perez Eckles, blind author of Simply Salsa. Perez Eckles is a personal success coach, radio host, and speaks to English and Spanish speaking audiences in the U.S. and South American countries.
Seven Secrets to Power Praying, written by Les Stobbe’s client, Jane Glenchur, was one of the sixteen book covers selected as winners of ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Awards, which celebrate the art and science of good book design.