(Nashville, Tenn) Thomas Nelson, Inc. is pleased to announce that four of its titles have been selected as finalists in ForeWord Magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year Awards. The awards were established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. This program was designed to discover distinctive books across a number of genres.

The unique awards process brings readers, librarians, and booksellers together to select their top categories as well as choose the winning titles. Their decisions are based on editorial excellence, professional production, originality of the narrative, author credentials relative to the book, and the value the book adds to its genre. The winners will be announced at a special program during BookExpo America being held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 29th.

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“After I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn’t ever gon’ have no kind a’ future.  But I found out everybody’s different – the same kind of different as me: we’re all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.” — Denver Moore

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.
An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.
A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.
A true story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.

For the week of March 22,2009, Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent will be listed as the #12 nonfiction paperback on the New York Times Best Seller List – its 52nd consecutive week on the list. The highest point reached over the past year has been #11, which was reached on two separate occasions.

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AUTHOR AND “WOMAN OF FAITH” SPEAKER SHEILA WALSH ENCOURAGES WOMEN TO TRUST GOD IN TOUGH TIMES

(Nashville, Tenn.) She is a powerful speaker, touring to more than 25 cities each year with the Women of Faith Conference. She is an award-winning author, a successful music artist, and a devoted mother and wife. Yet, even Sheila Walsh—a successful woman by anyone’s standards—suffers the same burdens that so many women share. Through her own trials, she has discovered new depths of God’s goodness for a woman’s most common problems, and she now shares them with the world.

In her new book, Let Go: Live Free of the Burdens All Women Know, (Thomas Nelson, February 2009, ISBN: 978-0-8499-0135-5, $19.99) Walsh utilizes carefully selected biblical insights and poignant personal stories to join her readers on a journey of discovery—learning together how to release themselves from the heavy yoke of life, to see God in every moment, and to fully allow Him to be in control. READ MORE »

10 year anniversary edition celebrates her heart and life

“I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus,
If I have to sacrifice everything . . . I will.” –Rachel Scott
(Nashville, Tenn.) – The Columbine tragedy in April 1999 pierced the heart of our country. We later learned that the teenage killers specifically targeted Rachel Scott and mocked her Christian faith on their chilling, homemade videotapes. Rachel Scott died for her faith. In the ten years that have passed since her death, millions have come in contact with her story and been changed. Her courage and innocent child-like faith have been an inspiration for everyone who knew Rachel, has heard her family speak, or has read from the pages of her journals.

In Rachel’s Tears, originally published in 2000, her parents talk about Rachel’s life and how they have found meaning in their daughter’s martyrdom in the aftermath of such darkness. Rachel’s Tears comes from a heartfelt need to celebrate this young girl’s life, to work through the grief and the questions of a nation, and to comfort those who have been touched by violence in our schools today. Using excerpts and drawings from Rachel’s own journals, her parents offer a spiritual perspective on the Columbine tragedy and provide a vision of hope for preventing youth violence across the nation.

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(Nashville, Tenn.) Ricardo Montaner’s long anticipated first book, Lo que no digo cantando (Beyond the Music) will be published by Grupo Nelson, the Spanish division of Thomas Nelson. The Publisher proudly announced that the well-known singer and songwriter’s book will be printed simultaneously in Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States to guarantee that Lo que no digo cantando will be released at points of sale throughout the U.S., Spain, and Latin America on Ricardo’s birthday - September 8, 2009.

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