W Takes Prophecy Title for Younger Generation
Tom Dean of A Drop of Ink Literary has negotiated a world rights agreement with Brooke Hill of W Publishing Group for the tentatively titled Holy Cow! End Times Prophecy Just Got Real!, written by the Faith & Friction podcast team of Chichi Onyekanne, Tracy Onyekanne, Annaly Mawire, and Jason McKay. The authors make biblical prophecy accessible and explain why now is the time to pay attention to signs of the end times forecast throughout the Bible. The book will be released in early summer 2026.
Moody Author Helps Women Battle Anxiety
Erin Davis, acquiring editor at Moody Publishers, has taken world rights for Eve Wasn’t Anxious: How to Cultivate the Peace of Eden in Your Own Life by Nichole Suvar. Suvar, who battled anxiety for over 30 years, is a strategist who uses her book to help those struggling with anxiety discover how the natural environment can improve their mental health and find their purpose in God's kingdom. Jen Babakhan of Books & Such Literary Management represented the author. Publication is planned for June 2026.
Author Helps Readers Love Themselves
Rebekah Von Lintel of Embolden Media Group has paired Dacey Triplett and her Nobody Can Be You Better Than You: Loving the Person God Created You to Be with Mary Wiley at B&H Publishing, who took world rights to the October 2026 release. Triplett, born with Achondroplasia dwarfism, writes and speaks to audiences about how God can turn our differences into the biggest blessings of our lives.
Affirmation Picture Book to Tommy Nelson
Bri Gallagher, acquisitions editor at Tommy Nelson, has acquired, as part of a four-book deal, world rights to What God Says About You by Hosanna Wong, illustrated by Liz Brizzi. It is a picture book for ages 3-8 of affirmations inspired by the author's viral spoken word poem "I Have a New Name." Publication is set for summer 2025. Jenni Burke at Illuminate Literary Agency represented the author, and Tracy Marchini at BookEnds Literary represented the illustrator.
Lake Drive Takes A Challenge to Origin Stories
David Morris, publisher at Lake Drive Books, has taken world rights to Resurrection Technology: A Hush Harbor Troubling of Our Origin Stories by Tamice Spencer-Helms, author, speaker and founder of Sub:Culture, a nonprofit that provides support and crisis relief for Black college students. The unagented book draws on the Hush Harbor tradition—clandestine worship spaces of enslaved Africans—to challenge whitewashed origin stories around faith, identity, and power. It is scheduled for July 2026 release.
A B&H Devotional Written for Moms
B&H Media’s Ashley Gorman has taken world rights from Kathy Green at Embolden Media Group to Chelsey DeMatteis’s Mercy in the Margin: Finding Jesus in the Fringes of Motherhood. The 52-week devotional by DeMatteis (More of Him, Less of Me), who is host of the Living with Less podcast, encourages mothers to find the sacred moments amid life’s disruptions, distractions, and mundane joys. Publication is set for mid-2026.
Richard Brown Takes Two for Bloomsbury
Richard Brown, senior editor at Bloomsbury Academic, negotiated with Rita Rosenkranz at Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency for world English rights to Forgiveness at Ground Zero: A Journey of Loss, Service, and Redemption after 9/11 by Lyndon Harris. Harris, a former Episcopal priest, was a 9/11 mission relief leader at Ground Zero. He recounts his traumatic experience, his subsequent collapse, and how he found new beginnings brought by the power of forgiveness. Publication date is September 1, 2026.
Brown also bought world English rights for Duke University Divinity School professor Amy Laura Hall's Erecting the Pulpit: Muscular Christianity from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump. Hall, the daughter of a Texas Methodist minister, draws on firsthand experiences in Cowboy Churches, NASCAR chaplaincies, Young Life ministries, and National Prayer Breakfasts to reveal how a growing network of Protestant churches is redefining masculinity and fusing "muscular Christianity" with capitalism. Hall was represented by Max Sinsheimer of Sinsheimer Literary for the book publishing June 1, 2026.
