“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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(Nashville, TN)—Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) recently announced the nominees for the 2009 SIBA Book Awards.  Among the nominees is The Wedding Machine (Thomas Nelson, 2008) by Charleston, SC author Beth Webb Hart.  Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine said of The Wedding Machine, “This charming tale of family, friendship and weddings has a true Southern feel. Hart infuses her book with the right amount of humor to offset more serious moments.”

SIBA Book Award nominees are chosen by SIBA member bookstores.  In the organization’s words, “These are the Southern books they have most enjoyed selling to customers; the ones that they couldn’t stop talking about; the ones most often pushed into a customer’s hands with the words ‘You have got to read this!’ The SIBA Book Award was created to recognize great books of Southern origin, as determined by people whose business it is to know great books—the independent booksellers of the South.”

Winners in six categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cooking, young adult and children’s) will be named on July 4, 2009 after a jury vote.

(Nashville, Tenn.) On the March 2009 Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Christian Bestellers List, eighteen Thomas Nelson titles are represented on the list of the top fifty non-fiction and fiction titles. Emerson Eggerichs’ Love and Respect, Eric Wilson’s Fireproof, Dave Ramsey’s Total Money Makeover, Ted Dekker’s Kiss and David C. Jeremiah’s What in the World is Going On? are a sampling of the Thomas Nelson titles that made the list.

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(Nashville, Tenn.) Publishers Weekly announced in their January 19 issue that Thomas Nelson secured roughly a quarter of of the available hardcover religion bestseller spots. The company had seven titles appear for a total of 29 times on hardcover religion bestsellers monthly list, the most for any publisher. The 2008 Publishers Weekly Hardcover Religion Bestsellers from Thomas Nelson are Jesus Calling by Sarah Young, What in the World is Going On? by David Jeremiah, Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs, Sinner by Ted Dekker, 3:16 by Max Lucado, Intelligence for Your Life by John Tesh, and Walking with God by John Eldredge.
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Nashville, TN—TheSuspenseZone.com has announced the 2008 Reviewers’ Choice list of the reviewers’ top ten favorite books of the year.  Four of the ten positions on the list belong to Thomas Nelson fiction titles: Adam and Sinner (both by Ted Dekker), Less than Dead by Tim Downs, and Field of Blood by Eric Wilson.  All three favorite authors have new major releases in 2009: Green by Dekker; Ends of the Earth by Downs, and Haunt of Jackals by Wilson.