Jacklyn Johnston graduated from Belmont University here in Nashville with a degree in journalism and has been with Thomas Nelson Publishers for a little under a year. She works as a publicist in the Specialty Division, covering products within Children’s Books and Entertainment to Gift Books. Her favorite question is when people ask how she has time to read all of the books she works on. Seeing as they are picture books, most of the time it’s not that hard.
Jacklyn loves working with and promoting well-known authors such as Jack Hanna, Sheila Walsh, Tim McGraw, Donald Miller and Denise Jackson as well as new up and coming authors.
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 141000
Nashville, TN 37214
ph: 615.902.1722
fax: 615.902.2219
e: jjohnston@thomasnelson.com
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Redefining How Girls Look at Themselves and True Beauty, While Revealing a Girl’s Most Important Accessory
(Nashville, Tenn.) Some girls get their Daddy’s curly hair, his love for the golf course, or his cravings for peanut butter ice cream. Jenna Lucado inherited something a little different from her father—the ability to communicate well and simply in a way that moves people. Jenna’s dad, Max Lucado, instilled in Jenna very early a love for storytelling and inspiring others. Now she speaks to thousands of teenage girls every weekend on the Revolve Tour. Along the way she’s picked up on what really matters in the lives of these girls. In her new book, Redefining Beautiful (9781400314287, $12.99, September 2009), Jenna tackles an issue that is important to her, and, with the help of her Dad, unpacks it for the audience she loves.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
To Give Teens a Relationship Survival Guide
(Nashville, Tenn.) – It’s a classic scene: Boy meets Girl. Boy wonders what in the world Girl is talking about and how he will ever keep up. Girl wonders what is wrong with Boy and whether they are even of the same species. Both Boy and Girl struggle through their teenage years helplessly lost as to how the other operates. All seems lost. In a pivotal time of their development and social lives, teens are left to try and understand one another without much guidance.
Enter, Guys Are Waffles, Girls Are Spaghetti (ISBN: 9781400315161, $12.99, Sept. 2009)—every teen’s guide to figuring out the opposite sex while understanding and delighting in our unique differences. The purpose of this book is to help better understand themselves as well those from the “alien gender”. Author Chad Eastham is a popular speaker on the annual Revolve Tour which reaches 125,000 girls a year. Chad brings his on-stage humor and personality to life on the page with the help of popular authors Bill and Pam Farrel. Together they use principles from the Farrels’ best-selling book on marriage, Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti, and translate them to teen relationships from friendships to dating. READ MORE »
Monday, July 20, 2009
World’s Largest Christian Book Publisher Thomas Nelson Will Distribute To Christian Market
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — LIONSGATE(R) (NYSE: LGF), the leading next generation studio, announced today that it has acquired the North American home entertainment distribution rights to NO GREATER LOVE, a touching story about faith and love. Under the terms of the arrangement, Lionsgate obtains the rights to distribute the title on DVD, VOD and EST. Scheduled for a first quarter 2010 release, the movie will be distributed in the Christian marketplace by Thomas Nelson — the world’s largest Christian book publisher and Lionsgate’s exclusive distributor to the Christian market. READ MORE »
Thursday, June 4, 2009
(Nashville, Tenn.) When the 14th Annual Audies® Competition announced its top picks in a May 29 award ceremony, a group of Hollywood’s biggest young stars emerged from a competitive category as the very best. The Word of Promise Next Generation®: New Testament Audio Bible rose above audio books on Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Poitier, and Mother Teresa to take home the coveted 2009 Audie® in Inspirational/Faith-Based Non-Fiction. This year’s contest drew in a record 1,000 entries from audio publishers, reflecting the health of the audio industry.
John Kirby, Director of The Word of Promise Next Generation, expresses the pride of everyone who worked on the project: “What an honor to have won this prestigious award and to have been surrounded by such inspiring nominees who are heroes of mine,” he says. READ MORE »
Friday, May 8, 2009
“Life is short and the world is waiting”
(Nashville, Tenn.) In every way, nine-year-old Austin Gutwein was a typical little boy who could often be found shooting hoops in his backyard in Phoenix, Arizona. That is until he had his “Maggie moment” in 2004. After that, everything changed for him and more importantly, for the lives of children halfway across the world.
Austin was captivated by a video that told the story of a little girl named Maggie. Maggie lived in Zambia in Southern Africa. She lost almost everyone she loved to AIDS, an epidemic that ravaged the country and deprived it of an entire generation, leaving nearly a million children orphaned. READ MORE »
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