Hobby Lobby Leader to Baker Books
Baker Books has signed a third book with David Green, founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby stores. The book, tentatively titled The Legacy Life will be coauthored with Bill High and explore "how to live a life that makes a generational difference.” Green is represented by Tom Dean, founder of A Drop of Ink, who added the book will "reset the definition of family: readers will be challenged, encouraged, and convicted to think about how they live each day and how it will impact their family for generations to come." The book is slated for Fall 2025.
Brazos Press Takes Discipleship Study
Rachel Jacobson with Alive Literary has negotiated a world-rights deal with Brazos Press editorial director Katelyn Beaty for the tentatively titled Courageous Disciples by Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez. The book addresses common misconceptions and fears about biblical discipleship, and offers a renewed vision for it. Perreaux-Dominguez is a speaker and founder and CEO of Full Collective, a women’s faith-based community offering the Sowers Summit conference and the Being a Sanctuary podcast. A spring 2026 release is planned.
New Testament Scholar’s Work on Women to IVP Academic
Rachel Hastings, associate academic editor at IVP, has taken world rights to the tentatively titled The Women of the Gospels by New Testament scholar and Houston Theological Seminary director Lynn H. Cohick. Set for a Fall 2027 release as part of IVP Academic’s forthcoming Biblical Bios Series, the book will focus on the historical and social context of Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, and will highlight literary themes in specific gospels as they shed light on the presentation of women. The series will also provide an accessible read of different characters in the Bible based on the biblical text and historical background material. Hastings was unagented.
Shared Church Leadership to IVP
E. K. Strawser (Centering Discipleship) has signed a world-rights contract with IVP’s acquisitions editor Al Hsu for the tentatively titled Power Sharing in the Church: How Distributed Leadership Leads the Church into the Future. The unagented author—co-vocational lead pastor of Ma Ke Alo o in Honolulu, community physician at Ke Ola Pono, and an executive leader at the V3 Movement, the church planting arm of the Baptist General Association of Virginia—shows how shared leadership can be embedded into the structure of a church and its positive impact on the community. A Fall 2025 release is planned.
Gupta Takes Paul to Brazos
The unagented Nijay K. Gupta has negotiated world rights with senior acquisitions editor Anna Moseley Gissing of Brazos Press for the tentatively titled Paul for the World, which will explore how the Apostle Paul doesn’t want believers to think about different things other than their worldly concerns, but rather to think about them differently, with the gospel mind of Christ. The book is set for a Spring 2026 publication. Gupta is professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary and cohost of the Slow Theology podcast.
Rowman & Littlefield Signs 'Shame free' Sex Ed Guide; Gender Equity tome
Rowman & Littlefield senior executive editor Richard Brown has acquired world rights to You Deserve to Know: Shame-Free Sex Education after Purity Culture by Erica Smith, a sex educator and creator of the Purity Culture Dropout program. R&L said he book will offer readers "the information they lack about sexuality and their bodies, while fostering feelings of inclusion, empathy, and self-compassion, instead of shame." The deal was brokered by Ingrid Beck at The Bindery. A September 2025 publication is planned.
Brown has also acquired world rights for Rowman & Littlefield to The Fourth Reformation: How Battles over Women, Gender, and Sexuality are Shaping the Future of Religion by Katie Kelaidis, director of research and content at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, and a senior editor at Religion Dispatches. The book follows how "in recent years, bitter battles over women, gender, and sexuality have created divisions and in some cases schisms within Christianity—but this phenomenon is not confined to Christianity alone." Kelaidis was unagented. The book is set for a May 2025 publication.
