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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The Shadow of the Future: PW Talks to David Jeremiah

5 days ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

David Jeremiah is well-known for his more than 100 nonfiction titles, including many based on Christian eschatology, his Turning Point broadcast ministry and Turning Points magazine, devotionals, radio and television programs, and The Jeremiah Study Bible.
Religion Book Deals: May 21, 2025

2 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

Broadleaf Takes a Theological Look at Worldly PowerBridget Matzie of Aevitas Creative Management sold North American rights to Valerie Weaver-Zercher at Broadleaf Books for Matthew D. Taylor’s Christian Antichrists: Following Jesus Away from Imperial Faith. Taylor (The Violent Take It by Force) is a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore.
Local authors, publishers win Christian Book Awards

2 weeks ago | grmag.com | Ann Byle

A pair of local authors were honored recently with a 2025 Christian Book Award. The awards, handed out annually by the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association, honor the previous year’s top books in a dozen categories. Gayle Boss, who lives in Grand Rapids, won in the Children category for All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings, Children’s Edition, published by Paraclete Press.
Fresh seafood, affordable, too!

3 weeks ago | grmag.com | Ann Byle

When Zully Vielma and Louis Hamper settled in Greenville in 2016, for Louis Hamper, whose mother lived there, it was a homecoming. For Vielma, it was fleeing her homeland of Venezuela after threats and violence forced the family to leave. Now the pair are owners of Fishmongers Seafood Market at 4011 Plainfield Ave. NE, a small business that blends a wholesale seafood arm, a seafood market, and a small eat-in area.
Author tells tales from 'Bear County'

1 month ago | grmag.com | Ann Byle

John Counts knows Michigan’s small towns—he’s lived in them, visited for outdoor activities, and reported on the people and events of those small towns so often that they have become part of him. And are now the impetus behind his book of stories titled Bear County, Michigan, published by Northwestern University Press.
Religion Book Deals: May 7, 2025

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

Comer Adds Another PRH Christian PartnershipJohn Mark Comer, the bestselling author of the 2025 ECPA Christian Book of the Year, Practicing the Way, published as part of a partnership with PRH Christian Publishing imprint WaterBrook, has signed a new four-title partnership with the imprint. Comer will publish trade titles on topics including spiritual formation, discipleship, and contemplative spirituality, with releases beginning in 2028.
Cara Meredith - Church Camp [Feature Review]

1 month ago | englewoodreview.org | Ann Byle

A Feature Review ofChurch Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, & How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a GenerationCara MeredithHardcover: Broadleaf, 2025Buy Now: [ Bookshop ] [ Amazon ] [ Kindle ] Reviewed by Ann ByleCara Meredith knows her church camp. She attended Christian camps as all good church kids did, then became summer staff, then joined the camp world as a full-timer and later as a camp speaker.
Nnedi Okorafor - Death of the Author [Feature Review]

1 month ago | englewoodreview.org | Ann Byle

A Feature Review ofDeath of the Author: A NovelNnedi OkoraforHardcover: William Morrow, 2025Buy Now: [ BookShop ] [ Amazon ] [ Kindle ]Reviewed by Ann ByleNnedi Okorafor has won the awards—Hugo, Nebula, and more—and topped the bestseller lists, both of which she’s sure to do again with her new novel Death of the Author. This novel within a novel is a wild array of themes: tropes, questions, answers, family, AI technology, future, past, and present.
Religion Book Deals: April 16, 2025

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Ann Byle

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.
New Books Weave Nature and Science with Faith

1 month 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.