GuidepostsBooks was officially unveiled on the trade-show floor yesterday, with the first titles from the trade-book imprint of Guideposts magazine publishers due to arrive at retail in the fall.

Focusing on inspirational titles with “a wide variety of content,” the imprint will include first-person narratives, fiction, lifestyle books and the annual devotional “Daily Guideposts,” said Publisher and Editor in Chief Marilyn Moore.

Sales and distribution will be handled by representatives at Ideals Publications, which Guideposts acquired in 2000. “Daily Guideposts,” the “Guideposts for the Spirit” series and thematic story collections previously published by Ideals will become GuidepostsBooks' “instant backlist,” Moore said.

Although GuidepostsBooks is a new publisher, it is building on “six decades of positive consumer relationships with our more than 10 million current magazine readers,” Moore said.

In other book news, Tyndale House Publishers announced that Gary Chapman, marriage counselor and author of the best-selling The Five Love Languages (Northfield), is to team up with novelist Catherine Palmer for a four-book fiction series whose first title will release in January next year.

The pairing follows the success of the “Redemption” series from Tyndale House, which twinned counselor and author Gary Smalley and novelist Karen Kingsbury. The five-part series launched in 2002 and sold more than 850,000 copies.

Set in a small community on the Lake of the Ozarks, the Chapman-Palmer series will “dramatically portray” how God can use the seven strategies Chapman outlines in his The Four Seasons of Marriage, released by Tyndale last September, to help couples work through marriage issues. “Through memorable characters and engaging plotlines, the four seasons of marriage will come vividly to life,” the publisher said. The three other titles will be released through 2008.

Palmer's first novel was released in 1988, and since then she has published nearly 40 books whose sales total nearly 2 million. Several have been CBA best-sellers, with A Touch of Betrayal (HeartQuest) winning a Christy Award in the Romance category in 2001.

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