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Zondervan hires Mick Silva as senior acquisitions editor

August 20, 2018

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(Grand Rapids, MI) August 20, 2018—Zondervan announced Mick Silva today as the new senior acquisitions editor for Zondervan nonfiction trade books. Silva’s publishing experience includes writing and acquisitions for Focus on the Family and Waterbrook Multnomah. In those roles, he acquired memoir, self-help, marriage, parenting, Christian living, men’s interest, young family and teen books and […]

HarperCollins Christian Publishing hires Cristopher Garrido as new Spanish Publisher

July 26, 2018

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(Nashville, TN) July 26, 2018—Today, HarperCollins Christian Publishing (HCCP) announced Cristopher Garrido has joined the company as v-p and publisher for its Spanish publishing program.  HCCP’s Spanish publishing program includes product under the Grupo Nelson, Editorial Vida and CLIE imprints. Cris Garrido comes to HCCP after developing and directing a successful Spanish publishing program at […]

Zondervan senior editor-at-large Bob Hudson to retire in September

July 12, 2018

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Grand Rapids, Mich., July 12, 2018 — After 34 years at Zondervan, Bob Hudson, senior editor-at-large, has announced his plan to retire, effective September 28, 2018. Hudson has been a key figure at Zondervan, personally editing hundreds of books by authors including Philip Yancey, Walter Wangerin Jr., Lee Strobel, Terri Blackstock, Luci Shaw, Joni Eareckson […]

Jessica Westra hired as publicity director for Zonderkidz

July 9, 2018

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(Grand Rapids, MI) July 9, 2018—Zondervan announced today that Jessica Westra will join the Zonderkidz publishing division as the new publicity director. Westra comes to Zonderkiz with more than 23 years of experience, most recently running her own events and media consulting business handling an array of media relations campaigns for her cleints. Previously, she […]

Bestselling The Jesus Bible to reach more readers in new editions— exclusive NIV Comfort Print® typeface, and NVI and ESV translations

June 21, 2018

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Grand Rapids, Mich., June 21, 2018 —After a phenomenal first year, placing high both in Amazon and ECPA rankings, Zondervan is delighted to announce  that The Jesus Bible will be available in new editions in late 2018 and early 2019. In 2017, The Jesus Bible was Zondervan’s bestselling NIV study Bible and was one of […]