Multnomah Books, Abingdon Press and David C Cook all have seen recent sales success with new and backlist titles.

David Platt’s 2010 best-selling debut, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, has reached a major milestone with 1 million copies in print.

The book continues to appear on best-seller lists: 81 weeks on the New York Times Paperback Advice & Miscellaneous, and 20 months on the CBA Top 50, including 17 months in the top 10.

Having seen early buzz at WaterBrook Multnomah when the manuscript first came in, Steve Cobb, president and publisher said: “It’s been a real pleasure to see that enthusiasm carry over to retailers and consumers.”

Meantime, dog lovers have adopted a favorite in The Dog That Talked to God from Abingdon Press, which has seen the need for a second print run in advance of the book’s March publishing date. Written by Jim Kraus, the novel follows a recently widowed woman who buys a miniature schnauzer who seems to talk to God.

With “consistently exciting” response to the title, Pamela Clements, associate publisher of Abingdon Press Christian Living and Fiction, said that the company is “revisiting each account with this book based on the early response we are seeing.”

At David C Cook, Julie Cantrell’s southern literary debut, Into the Free, is making significant sales impact. As of Feb. 24, the novel spent five days among the top 100 paid best-sellers at Amazon.com. It was also No. 5 in literature and fiction in paperback, and No. 1 on various Kindle ebook lists: literary fiction, historical fiction, romance, historical romance, contemporary fiction and religious fiction in Kindle ebooks. In addition, the book was in the top 100 on the Barnes & Noble list.

Cantrell was formerly editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review and has written two children’s books.

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