As the makers of Fireproof shoot the follow-up to their 2008 hit movie, their publisher has revealed plans for related books that hope to replicate the success of the marriage drama's tie-in titles.

Currently shooting in Albany, Ga., and due to be released next year, Courageous will be twinned with a new title from B&H Books/B&H Publishing Group that will center on the film's theme of fatherhood. It will be accompanied by a book on the same topic by Michael Catt, senior pastor of film-making brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick's home church, Sherwood Baptist Church.

The Kendricks' new book would not be as closely linked to the film as had been the case with their best-selling The Love Dare (B&H Books), which was featured as a plot device in Fireproof, said B&H President and Publisher Brad Waggoner. The brothers were concerned "to avoid anything that would seem contrived or opportunistic," he said.

The Kendricks' The Love Dare--in paperback and imitation leather--and their Love Dare Day by Day devotional and wedding edition have sold more than 4 million copies internationally.

"Nobody knows for sure what God is going to do with this next movie," Waggoner told Christian Retailing. "It would be foolish from a business standpoint to just automatically assume it will be the same, but we are prepared for it to be."

John Thompson, senior vice president of marketing for B&H, said another release based on The Love Dare is planned at some stage.

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