Harvest House has promoted Brad Moses to director of sales. He has been national general market sales manager since 2009, expanding the reach of Harvest House titles beyond the Christian market and into the general trade. Prior to joining Harvest House, Moses had worked in the magazine and bookselling businesses, including a stint at Oxmoor House/Sunset books, a Time Warner division.
eChristian has promoted Nate Paschall to national sales manager for all imprints of the eC Publishing Group. Paschall has been with eChristian for the past year in other roles. eC Publishing Group publishes about 150 audiobooks per year under the imprints christianaudio and Mission Audio. Last year the company added print and e-books under the new imprints eChristian Books and Mission Books. Founded in 2004 as christianaudio, the company changed its name to eChristian in 2011 to reflect the range of its divisions, which include eC Publishing Group, the Web sites christianaudio.com and eChristian.com, Livingstone, and the eChristian retail platform, which hosts Web sites for retailers and ministries.
The American Humanist Association publishing house, Humanist Press, which publishes humanist/freethought/atheist books, is now offering e-books and will focus its publishing program on the digital format. Candidate Without A Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt by Herb Silverman (Mar.), the first title, was launched last Friday (March 23) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
Thomas Nelson’s partnership with the humanitarian organization World Vision has now produced more than a half-million dollars in aid for countries in the Horn of Africa. In the past year, Nelson has donated a share of its profits on U.S. Bible sales in Christian stores with its “Buy a Bible, Help a Child” program; those funds have now reached $112,500. Combined with grants and corporate donations, a total of $540,000 will help children and their families in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, which are among the hardest hit by famine and disease. According to World Vision, the funds will help provide care for more than 24,000 people, including vaccines, clean water, nutritious food, and basic hygiene.
Charisma House, a publisher charismatic/Pentecostal books, magazines, and Web content, has launched a new imprint, Passio, which is described as “aimed at reaching contemporary-minded believers.” The first title under the new imprint will be Viral Jesus: Recovering the Contagious Power of the Gospel by Ross Rohde (Feb.); among other 2012 releases is Upended: How Following Jesus Remakes Your Words and World by Jedd Medefind and Erik Lokkesmoe (May). Other Charisma House imprints include Realms (fiction), Siloam (health), FrontLine (issues and current events), Creation House, and Casa Creación. The company also publishes Christian Retailing, Charisma, Ministry Today, and Vida Cristiana magazines.
Tyndale House has announced that one of the company’s two non-fiction publishing groups will become a separate imprint, Tyndale Momentum. Janis Long Harris, formerly associate publisher for nonfiction, has been named as publisher; she will report to Senior V-P and Group Publisher Doug Knox. Tyndale Momentum staff have already published a number of bestsellers, including The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven by Kevin and Alex Malarkey; Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy; Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef; and Bringing Up Girls by James Dobson. Forthcoming titles under the Tyndale Momentum imprint will include Winning Balance, a memoir by Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson. Some books will continue to be published under the sub-imprints SaltRiver and BarnaBooks.
