Two other Thomas Nelson titles win Nonfiction and New Author at the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association event

Missionary-author Sarah Young’s books have become a mainstay on best-seller charts. Now the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) has presented her with the Christian Book of the Year Award for Jesus Today (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins Christian Publishing). 

ECPA presented the 2013 Christian Book Awards on April 29, with 36 finalists in seven categories. Each category had five finalists except for Inspiration, which had six due to a tie.

Two other Thomas Nelson titles won as well. Grace by Max Lucado received the award for Nonfiction, and Jennie Allen topped the New Author category with Anything. Another HarperCollins Christian author, Sally Lloyd-Jones, won the Inspiration category with Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing (Zonderkidz/Zondervan).

David C Cook received two awards for The Action Bible Devotional by Jeremy V. Jones (Children) and The Next Target by Nikki Arana (Fiction).

Tyndale House Publishers won the Bibles category with the Chronological Life Application Study Bible, NLT (New Living Translation).

The awards were presented during the ECPA Leadership Summit at World Outreach Church outside Nashville. 

An e-book sampler, which opens with a selection from the Book of the Year and includes excerpts from all 2013 Christian Book Award finalists, was released in conjunction with the awards. Readers can link to this free resource, available from ECPA’s retail partners in a variety of e-reader formats, at www.ChristianBookExpo.com.

Established by ECPA in 1978 as the Gold Medallion Book Awards, the Christian Book Awards, recognize the highest quality in Christian books based on excellence in content, literary quality, design and impact.

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