August is a wonderful time for reading, featuring late-summer releases and atmospheric stories about thresholds, solitude, and transitions.
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 Linda Clare and AMG Publishers for the April 1st release of Carry Me Through: For When You Can’t Go On.
Carry Me Through: A 90-Day Devotional for Times When You Can’t Go On is a compassionate, deeply honest devotional for readers who are weary of waiting for miracles,and need God’s strength now. Drawing from a lifetime of lived faith, physical disability, caregiving, grief, and parenting through mental illness and addiction, Linda S. Clare offers a powerful reframing of suffering. Rather than promising quick fixes or easy answers, Carry Me Through invites readers to encounter a God who does not always remove pain, but faithfully carries us through it. Organized into three thoughtful sections, this 90-day devotional meets readers in real-life struggles such as anxiety, exhaustion, trauma, resentment, regret, grief, loneliness, and fear. Each devotional combines Scripture, vulnerable storytelling, and practical spiritual wisdom, offering comfort without clichés and hope without denial. This book is ideal for individuals walking through prolonged hardship, caregivers, parents of struggling children, those living with chronic illness, and anyone who feels emotionally or spiritually spent. Carry Me Through reassures readers that even when miracles are delayed, God’s presence is constant, tender, and sustaining, and strong enough to carry them one day, one moment, at a time.
Congratulations to Katy McCown and Amen Editions for the August 25 release of Pray It Out: 40 Days of Casting Your Cares on Jesus.
Turn fear and worry into powerful daily prayer with this interactive 40-day devotional from Katy McCown of She Laughs Ministries and Proverbs 31 Ministries—bite-sized prompts and space to reflect, for busy women.
Women carry a lot—often shouldering not just their own burdens, but the emotional weight of those they love. When life feels overwhelming, it’s natural to try to work harder or simply wait for things to change, but the result is the same: we end up drained, mentally and spiritually. But we don’t have to carry it alone.
In this encouraging, highly practical 40-day devotional, Katy McCown guides women to trade their burdens for blessings by casting their cares on Jesus.
Bite-sized devotionals for even the busiest day
Daily prayers for a variety of real-life circumstances
Prompts and write-in space to pray throughout the day
A giftable, handbag-sized companion for all-day peace
Trade fear for freedom—pray it out, one day at a time.
Congratulations to Barry Corey with John Townsend and Whitaker House for the September 1st release of Necessary Burdens: Addressing the Complexities of Leadership.
Leadership looks impressive from the outside, but from the inside, it can feel isolating, relentless, and heavy. Senior leaders carry responsibilities no one else fully understands―decisions without peers, criticism without context, and pressure that follows them long after the workday ends. Necessary Burdens draws on decades of real-world leadership from two preeminent names in leadership and psychology, exploring unseen realities that come with authority: loneliness, identity strain, accountability, temptation, disruption, and the challenge of sustaining personal well-being while stewarding an organization. These pressures are not framed as failures or flaws, but as defining features of leadership itself.
Contracts
Sarah Varland signed with Harlequin Enterprises for the January 2028 release of K-9 SAR 2028.
Grace Hamman signed with Basic Books Group for the March 2029 release of Translation of Julian of Norwich.
Sandy Silverthorne signed with Harvest House Publishers for the May 2029 release of You Can Trust God Illustrated Devotions for Kids.
New Clients
Isaac Gay and Eric Ballard recently signed with WordServe. Welcome,
What We’re Celebrating
Congratulations to Patrice Gopo. Her book Beyond Alaska’s Window has earned its first starred review from Kirkus!
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