When the Evangelical Publishers Association introduced the Kenneth N. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award at its spring 2016 Seminar, they had no idea that at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference one of Dr. Taylor’s early associates, Les Stobbe, would also receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in Publishing. For both awards to be featured in the same ECPA Rush to Press calls for a snapshot of their publishing life together.
By Michele Howe
Michele is a prolific book author on issues related to the family, as well as a book reviewer and article writer, with a monthly article in CBA’s Marketplace Magazine. Her most recent book, Empty Next, What’s Next: Parenting Adult Children Without Losing Your Mind is selling well.
By Lori Stanley Roeleveld
Non-believers scoff when Christians trade their sacred cows (everything they value) for a life with Jesus. All they see is a handful of useless biblical “beans.” Peter says there’s life in those beans. Jesus and the Beanstalk unpacks 2 Peter 1:1-10 using fairy tale, humor, and modern culture to show today’s believers how to unleash that promise and discover how to topple the giants in their lives.
By Dr. Robert D. Lesslie M.D.
Dr. Lesslie, bestselling author of Angels in the ER series, rises above the noise and takes a refreshing, reasonable, and encouraging approach to the topic of weight loss. He answers the key questions usually asked about weight loss programs, while providing safe and effective ideas for slimming down.
By Kevin J. Brown
The intended audience for Designed for Good is men and women who would self-identify as people of faith and are interested in how this identity may impact or influence how they organize, manage, and run their daily lives. It is also written with the growing number of disillusioned people of faith in our country in mind.
I was 40 years old when I began acquiring fiction for Moody Press. My background included six years buying fiction and selling it in bookstores, four years of visiting Christian booksellers and interviewing them on why they were successful, and helping a fiction writer gain a publisher for a series of suspense novels.