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Written by Felicia Abraham
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:44 PM America/New_York |
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- 'Struggling' store closes: Just for Heaven's Sake, the Christian bookstore in Tampa, Fla., that expanded to become Saint Thomas Café last year—is closing after 13 years. Said owner Darlene Yetta: “We've always struggled, and I needed to get a job that paid.”
- The St. Petersburg Times
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- 'Shack' changes publishing: William P. Young's The Shack is cited as an example of how new technology has meant that “vanity publishing has become practically respectable,” in an essay on the changing face of the book world.
- TIME magazine
- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1873122-4,00.html
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- Author's 'empty nest' inspiration: Sharlene MacLaren's career as a novelist—which has just seen her seventh book, Hannah Grace: The Daughter of Jacob Kane, released by Whitaker Publishing—when as an empty nest parent she “asked God to give me direction for the next season of my life.”
- The Grand Haven Tribune
- http://www.grandhaventribune.com/paid/293621262241857.bsp
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- 'Gaither means Gospel': The name Gaither “is synonymous with gospel like the name Rolling Stones is with rock 'n' roll.”
- The Huntsville (Ala.) Times
- http://www.al.com/religion/huntsvilletimes/news.ssf?/base/living/1232705734193000.xml&coll=1
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- A purpose-driven magazine: Rick Warren's new quarterly Purpose Driven Connection, published with Reader's Digest Association, is not just a magazine but the name for “a multimedia, multiplatform community.”
- Advertising Age
- http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=134076
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- Urban publishing expands: Where there was once only Bill Cosby and T.D. Jakes, “a whole new generation of writers of color are creating books to inspire and entertain.”
- The Bradenton (Fla.) Herald
- http://www.bradenton.com/701/story/1176488.html
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- 'Magic' basketball moments: Pat Williams, the Orlando Magic's senior vice president, is a prolific writer whose latest, Chicken Soup for the Soul Inside Basketball, out next month, is “packed with 101 short basketball inspirational stories.”
- The Rocky Mountain News
- http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/nuggets/archives/2009/01/schemmel_writes.html
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- 'Amazing' creation of 'CompassionArt': Michael W. Smith says that his involvement in the CompassionArt album which brought together leading Christian songwriters to raise money for charity was “one of the most amazing times of my career.”
- The (Nashville) Tennessean
- http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090125/TUNEIN/901250324/1005/ENTERTAINMENT
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- Charity music's big goal: Proceeds from the multi-artist CompassionArt CD raising money to help relieve poverty could “make a difference for several generations.”
- Reuters
- http://uk.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUKTRE50N0NQ20090124
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- 'Naked' honesty about faith: Andrew Farley, a professor of applied linguistics at Texas Tech and pastor of Lubbock Bible Church in Lubbock, Texas, addresses performance-based Christianity in The Naked Gospel, to be published in August by Zondervan.
- The Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal
- http://lubbockonline.com/stories/012409/loc_380938956.shtml
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- Denominational store closes: Pathway Bookstore in Cleveland, Tenn., “may or may not be revived in a smaller footprint,” according to Scot Carter, director of Department of Communications for the Church of God International Offices.
- The Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner
- http://www.clevelandbanner.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=046FFEB3-19B9-E2E2-672710F5AB5DB704
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- Church store shuts doors: Faith, Hope & Love Christian Books and Gifts Store in New Britain, Conn., opened in 2006 by members of the town's McCullough Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, has closed.
- The New Britain (Conn.) Herald
- http://www.newbritainherald.com/articles/2009/01/25/news/doc497d2a9407872502647911.txt
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- Store owners' email scam: Randy and Jill King, owners of Kings Christian Bookstore in Boone, Iowa, were subject of an email scam after their business email account was hacked.
- KCCI.com
- http://www.kcci.com/news/18568450/detail.html
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- New store in Canada: Faith Family Books and Gifts opens in Scarborough, Ontario in April, managed by two former employees of R.G. Mitchell which closed its stores last year.
- Quill& Quire magazine
- http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=10473
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- Young author's motherly inspiration: University of Georgia pre-journalism student Brittney Holmes, whose third inspirational novel comes out this summer, credits as one of her inspirations her mom, best-selling author Kendra Norman-Bellamy.
- The Red and Black (Athens, Ga.)
- http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2009/01/26/News/University.Freshman.To.Release.Third.Novel-3596338.shtml
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