Family Christian Stores announced Tuesday that Dan Hubka is being promoted internally from media strategic business unit team leader to vice president of merchandise, effective immediately.

“Dan has a wonderful 20-year history with Family Christian that began in the field as a store manager,” said Chuck Bengochea, CEO of the nonprofit chain of stores. “Dan brings the balance of internal knowledge and creative thinking that we are looking for to drive our merchandising strategies of the future.”

Faithhappenings.com, an online resource that gives Christians access to faith-based content, is presenting Christian retailers the opportunity to promote their author and musician events at no charge. These listings will reach hypertargeted members through the website and personalized emails. 

“Supporting Christian retail has been one of the primary goals for faithhappenings.com,” said Greg Johnson, founder of the site and president of WordServe Literary. “Our philosophy will always be if a church, ministry or business is doing something for free—with no ticket charge or offering—then they can post details free.”

Rebekah Nesbitt has resigned from her position of vice president, editor in chief at Howard Books. Nesbitt plans to spend more time with her family as well as pursue opportunities as a freelance editor.

Best-selling author Sheila Walsh and B&H Kids have agreed on a multi-book deal that will focus on a new brand to be announced in 2015.

The project will be designed to gets kids excited about digging into the Bible and provide tools for parents to help lead their children to Christ. 

Myles Munroe published many books under a number of Christian publishers, who have reacted to his passing in a plane crash in the Bahamas on Sunday, Nov. 9. He was 60.

Don Nori Jr., CEO of Nori Media Group, published Myles Munroe books, including Overcoming Crisis, Rediscovering the Kingdom and Understanding Your Potential, under its Destiny Image imprint.

Parable.com, the online presence for The Parable Group family of independently owned retail partner stores, has discontinued its e-book sales.

Sally Ross, Parable Group’s marketing and communications strategist, indicated that consumers were not significantly interested in buying e-books from Parable.com.

More consumers plan to wait until Thanksgiving weekend to start their holiday shopping, leading to a delayed start to the shopping season, according to the 2014 Holiday Purchase Intentions Survey from The NPD Group.

Eighteen percent of consumers claim they will start during Thanksgiving weekend, a sharp contrast to last year’s 13%. Among those reporting that they will begin their shopping during Thanksgiving weekend, 12% plan to shop Black Friday, while the remaining 6% plan to do their shopping Saturday and/or Sunday.