GRAMMY-nominated and GMA Dove Award-winning artist Jeremy Camp will offer a free concert broadcast exclusively on Facebook. The concert is part of the May 9 launch of FANetwork’s faith-based community, Global Sounds.

Camp will bring 90 minutes of songs and the stories behind them live from his Nashville home. Facebook users will be able to interact with him directly through the “Jeremy Camp Live” Facebook app at https://apps.facebook.com/jeremycampconcert/.

International trade and licensing show Marketsquare Asia will be held Sept. 2-4 at the Singapore Recreation Club in Singapore. The show will include international translation rights negotiation as well as sales of Christian products available in English and other languages.

Describing the show as “your opportunity to meet with Asian customers,” Executive Director of Christian Trade Association International Kim Pettit said: “We will have distributors, wholesale and retail buyers from Singapore, but we also expect buyers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and other Asian countries.”

Tyndale House Publishers President and CEO Mark Taylor will speak about “The Top Five Trends in Christian Publishing That Excite (or Worry) Me” at the show Sunday, then the exhibit floor will open for business Monday and Tuesday.

Bookseller and publisher workshops will also be offered. Dave Endrody, vice president of sales for Tyndale, will present two workshops drawing on his experience at American Express and Tyndale to provide practical advice for the Christian trade in the region.

Marketsquare Asia is preceded by the Korea Christian Rights Fair (Aug. 23-24 in Seoul, South Korea) and the Beijing International Book Fair (Aug. 29-Sept. 2 in Beijing). For more information on the Korean event or to participate in Marketsquare Asia, call 719-432-8428 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The fifth annual Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Awards were recently announced.

Sponsored by Christian Small Publishers Association (CSPA), the awards—which recognize books produced by small publishers for outstanding contributions to Christian life—featured 12 categories, which drew 94 titles nominated by 63 publishers.

Voted on by Christian retailers, the winners were: Yahshua's Bridge by Sandi Rog (DeWard Publishing Company) in General Fiction; Hearts Communion by Marianne Evans (White Rose Publishing) in Romance; Walking in Broken Shoes by Susan Magnuson Walsh (Grace Acres Press) in Christian Living; The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved by J. Phillips (TheDiscipleWhomJesusLoved.com) in Bible Study/Theology; Mr. Awana by Art Rorheim (Grace Acres Press) in Biography/Memoir; Deliver Me: Help, Hope, & Healing through True Stories of Unplanned Pregnancy by Dianne E. Butts (Connections Press) in Relationships/Family; Just Honor God by Rick Metrick (ShadeTree Publishing) in Devotional; Today I Found God by Greg Long (Halo Publishing International) in Children's (4-8 years); What Do Heroes Wear? by Gary Bower (Storybook Meadow) in Children's (8-12 years); Purity's Big Payoff by Donna Lee Schillinger, editor (The Quilldriver) in Young Adult (12 years and up); A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider by N.J. Lindquist and Wendy Nelles, editors (That's Life! Communication) in Gift Books and Keyboarding for the Christian School (Elementary Edition) by Leanne Beitel (Christian Keyboarding) in E-book Exclusive.

Established in 2004 to represent and promote small Christian publishers, CSPA has grown from three to more than 100 member publishers.

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The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) has announced the 2012 Christian Book Award recipients and three Jordon Lifetime Achievement Award winners. The winners were recognized at the ECPA Awards banquet held Monday, April 30, during the association’s annual Executive Leadership Summit held near Chicago.

Book winners were announced in seven categories: Bibles, Bible Reference, Nonfiction, Fiction, Children, Inspiration and New Author, a brand-new category.

Tyndale House Publishers—founded in 1962 by the now-late Kenneth Taylor—celebrates 50 years in 2012. The company started with the publication of Living Letters, a paraphrase of the New Testament epistles that was the forerunner to The Living Bible, took off in sales when it was endorsed by Billy Graham.

Tyndale is compiling a commemorative gift book, The Tyndale House 50th Anniversary Reader, as a limited edition for private distribution to employees, key retailers and industry leaders. A special online page—www.tyndale.com/50th—affords friends of the company an opportunity to learn about the company’s history and share greetings or upload a picture or video through a virtual birthday card.

Robert Walker was born 100 years ago today, April 30. He was my friend and mentor. I consider him a great man and this is my way to honor his memory and to thank God for his life.

Robert Walker founded Christian Bookseller magazine (which later became Christian Retailing), Creation House, Christian Life Missions and Christian Life magazine, which merged with Charisma in 1987. I have continued his publishing legacy. I wrote articles in Charisma and Christian Retailing, and have arranged for a reception in his honor as part of the regular Christian Life Missions board meeting. I hope you'll read on about this great man who inspired so many.

The Story has once again topped the weekly Bibles top five best-sellers. The list from Evangelical Christian Publishers Association track sales for the week ending April 21, according to Pubtrack Christian data.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Jesus Calling, Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 2. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 3. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 4. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 5. The Fiddler, “Home to Hickory Hollow,” No. 1, Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 6. Dear Jesus, Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 7. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 8. Jesus Calling: Large Print Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 9. Loving, “Bailey Flanigan Series,” No. 4, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 10. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 11. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 12. Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson); 13. The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club, Wanda E. Brunstetter (Barbour Publishing); 14. Same Kind of Different as Me, Ron Hall, Denver Moore (Thomas Nelson); 15. Do Yourself a Favor…Forgive, Joyce Meyer (FaithWords); 16. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 17. Get Out of That Pit, Beth Moore (Thomas Nelson); 18. Twelve Extraordinary Women, John MacArthur (Thomas Nelson); 19. Kingdom Man, Tony Evans (Tyndale House Publishers); and 20. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson).