October often highlights the crisp air, changing leaves, and cozy atmosphere, creating a perfect reading environment
Our highlights below include new releases, contracts signed, notable reviews and PR events, new authors to the agency and other news of note by clients and agents.
Releases
Congratulations to Kelsey Kramer McGinnis with Marissa Franks Burt and Christian Audio for the October 14th release of The Myth of Good Christian Parenting: How False Promises Betrayed a Generation of Evangelical Families.
Christian parents want to raise their kids in a godly way. But what if we’ve been sold a promise that “biblical parenting” can never deliver?
In The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis explore how the Christian parenting book industry has shaped, and often strained, families over the past five decades, continuing into the present day. Drawing on history, sociology, theology, and survey responses from adult children and parents, they trace the rise of Christian parenting empires that idealize obedient kids and perfect households—but often leave parents and children feeling like they’ll never measure up.
The authors also analyze popular Christian parenting teachings. They argue that these teachings on authority, compliance, corporal punishment, and control have had lasting effects on family dynamics and spiritual identity—including loss of faith, estrangement, religious trauma, and deep regret for many older parents. This book equips Christian parents, adults thinking critically about their upbringing, and church leaders to pursue a new path of freedom and mutual respect within their families.
Congratulations to Angela Herrington with Shannon Harris and Broadleaf Books for the October 14th release of Embracing the Old Witch in the Woods: Liberating Feminine Wisdom from Christian Patriarchy.
Christian patriarchy teaches that women are dangerous, manipulative, and untrustworthy. Whether painting women as the archetypal old witch in the woods or the biblical temptress, toxic religion vilifies their wisdom and uses fear to maintain male power. And these harmful stereotypes aren’t just historical; they persist in modern religious, societal, and political rhetoric, where confident women are called “nasty” or “radical.”
But there’s something they don’t want you to know about that old witch in the woods: She deeply trusts her sacred gifts and hard-earned wisdom. Embracing the Old Witch in the Woods is an invitation to reconnect with feminine wisdom that has been dismissed, maligned, and even persecuted over the centuries. When women lean into this wisdom, they learn how to trust their intuition, draw on their creativity, and lead with empathy.
Christian patriarchy separates us from ourselves, each other, and our Creator as well as from the traditions, practices, and stories that should have been passed down through generations. Angela J. Herrington draws on more than a decade of experience as a faith deconstruction coach and seminary-trained online pastor to offer practical strategies and practices for readers to rediscover and tap into deep ancestral knowledge that once defined and empowered women.
Embracing the Old Witch in the Woods is a road map for readers to challenge limiting beliefs, confront systemic injustices, and reclaim their inherent worth and wisdom. When we reclaim feminine wisdom, we liberate ourselves, our communities, and our souls, gaining strength and resilience through our connection to ourselves and to each other.
Congratulations to Dorothy Lettell Greco with Beth Allison Barr and Zondervan for the October 14th release of For the Love of Women: Uprooting and Healing Misogyny in America.
Despite the undeniable progress for women and girls in the 20th and 21st centuries, misogyny is still alive and well in today’s culture—often in ways that are more subtle and more insidious than the outright sexism of the past, and in spaces that we overlook or excuse as normative.
Misogyny has shape-shifted through the generations while maintaining a consistent through-line: it blinds individuals and cultures from seeing women as equal image-bearers, fosters hierarchies rather than partnerships, disdains vulnerability, and prevents all of us—women and men alike—from fully thriving.
In For the Love of Women Dorothy Littell Greco draws on in-depth research, interviews, biblical concepts, and vulnerable personal experience to explore how misogyny continues to impact six spheres of contemporary culture:
Healthcare
Government
The workplace
Media and entertainment
The church
Intimate relationships
While recent movements succeeded in raising consciousness and initiating important changes connected to misogynistic practices, alarming trends and rhetoric are on the rise in America today. We still have a lot of work to do—and the battle is more urgent than ever.
Like other deeply rooted, systemic injustices, misogyny is neither morally neutral nor random. It’s pernicious and calculated. For the Love of Women is for anyone who wants to educate, inspire, and empower themselves and women collectively to affect real change for everyone’s benefit.
Contracts
Brady Crytzer signed with Diversion Books for the June 2027 release of Commander-in-Chief: How George Washington Saved a Young Nation in Crisis,
Jim Burns with signed with HarperCollins Publishing for the April 2027 release of Parent’s Guide to Conversations About Sex.
Matthew John Milliner signed with IV Press for the October 2027 release of Mere Iconography.
Bryan Clark signed with Whitaker Corp for the April 2027 release of Tethered.
Walt Larimore signed with WWL Inc for the March 2027 release of Understanding the Nicene Creed.
New Clients
Samantha Stephenson, Katya Ungerman, Rachel Roth Aldhizer and Jeff Scott recently signed with WordServe. Welcome,
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