Ann Byle

Michigan

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Owner of AB Writing Services, freelance writer and editor, conf. speaker, cofounder of Breathe Christian Writers Conference.

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Articles

New Books Weave Nature and Science with Faith

1 week ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

Ecology and faith seem to be seeing eye to eye more often these days as authors blend their interest in climate, flora, fauna, and more in new books that also highlight the role God or a higher power play in the world. Indeed, there's such an interest that the Book Industry Study Group created a new BISAC code last fall for Religion/Christian Theology/Ecology. “It’s about time," said Valerie Weaver-Zercher, an acquiring editor at Broadleaf, which has three books in this category this spring.
Jennie Allen's New Book is for Anxious Kids

1 week ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

Jennie Allen, author of the million-plus bestseller Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts (WaterBrook, 2020), has a new picture book releasing April 29 with WaterBrook that has its genesis in the popular book for adults. What to Do with Your Whirly, Swirly Thoughts helps children ages 4-8 face and deal with their anxiety, depression and spiraling thoughts in language and pictures just for them.
Poets Infuse Their Words with Faith

2 weeks ago | grmag.com | Ann Byle

Faith plays a role for area poets who write from their hearts about topics ranging from day-to-day life to the eternal. Four poets speak about their writing and how faith informs their work to honor April’s National Poetry Month. Jewish poet Janet Ruth Heller says it well: “Some see religion as something we don’t need. But it helps people get through life and better themselves. Improving community and helping people improve are very positive goals.
Religion Book Deals: April 2, 2025

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

ODB Takes Devotional for Black GirlsMinister and author Khristi Lauren Adams (Parable of the Brown Girl) has signed a world rights deal with Katara Patton, senior editor for the Voices imprint at Our Daily Bread, for Wisdom Speaks: Devotions for the Spiritual Journeys of African American Girls, which is slated for release in winter 2027.
Religion Book Deals: April 9, 2025

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

ODB Takes Devotional for Black GirlsMinister and author Khristi Lauren Adams (Parable of the Brown Girl) has signed a world rights deal with Katara Patton, senior editor for the Voices imprint at Our Daily Bread, for Wisdom Speaks: Devotions for the Spiritual Journeys of African American Girls, which is slated for release in winter 2027.
Religion Book Deals: March 19, 2025

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

History of the White Church Goes to BrazosBrazos Press executive editor Bob Hosack took world rights to The Gospel and the White Church in America by Michael O. Emerson, with a spring 2028 release planned. The unagented author is an award-winning writer and researcher in areas of religion and public issues, and is the Baker Institute’s Chavanne Fellow in Religion and Public Policy.
How Church Camps Betrayed Jesus: PW Talks with Cara Meredith

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

Cara Meredith was once a Christian camp fanatic, reveling in the play-packed days and dutifully attending the nightly Bible teachings designed to bring campers straight to Jesus once they realize they’re terrible sinners. Meredith spent weeks at camp throughout her childhood, moved up to summers on staff as a young adult, and strolled across the stage as a speaker in adulthood. Now, in her forthcoming book, she hopes to prompt reform in an institution she calls socially and spiritually exclusive.
Religion Book Deals: March 5, 2025

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

Baker Books Signs Spirituality TitleJenni Burke of Illuminate Literary Agency worked with Baker Books editorial director Brian Vos to finalize a world rights deal for the tentatively titled When God Seems Distant by Kyle Strobel and John Coe. Both authors, who previously collaborated on the 2021 title Where Prayer Becomes Real, are professors at the Institute of Spiritual Formation at Talbot School of Theology, which is housed at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif.
New Books by Christian Artists Tie Creativity to Faith

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

What is the calling of a Christian artist? What is beauty? How does one get unstuck in your creative process? How can art express spiritual values such as justice, compassion, and community? Several forthcoming books from religion publishers, painters, sculptors, writers, and other artists offer examinations of all these questions.
The Power of True Talent

1 month ago | grmag.com | Ann Byle

Julianne Vanden Wyngaard is a musician for the ages. She’s played piano for the Grand Rapids Symphony, Circle Theater, and even the Kitten Club in the early 1960s. The club, located in the Morton Hotel, featured bustier-clad women wearing kitten ears. And a young piano player who made more money in three or four nights than she made working full-time in the payroll department at Meijer.