Rachelle Gardner

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Happy release day to author Kaitlin Curtice! I’m excited about this beautiful children’s book. WINTER’S GIFTS is available now and is perfect for Native American Heritage Month & the holiday season. Kaitlin’s book is about our spiritual connection to nature and is the first in a series celebrating the seasons. It’s gorgeously illustrated by Gloria Félix.

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Rachelle Gardner

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Happy release day to author Matthias Roberts! Holy Runaways speaks to people who are feeling ignored, oppressed, or rejected by their religious community and church, offering a path forward built on speaking truth, deep listening, and acting with compassion. Psychotherapist Matthias Roberts reaches out to those who, like him, want to understand the religion they’ve run from and erect a new faith on firmer foundations.

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Rachelle Gardner

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Happy release day to author Kayla Craig! Every Season Sacred is a weekly invitation to grow spiritually alongside our children. It’s an invitation to ask big questions, embrace faithful rhythms, and experience God’s mysterious, loving presence together. You don’t have to have all the answers, but you can tend to your own soul and to your family’s flourishing.

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Rachelle Gardner

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Happy release day to author Jamie Bruesehoff! “Raising Kids Beyond the Binary” is a brave and groundbreaking work helping parents navigate the emotional, spiritual, and logistical landscape of raising a gender-diverse child. The book calls upon people of faith and the Church to love and affirm young people in who God created them to be. Rising above the raging political and religious debates, this book is a bold and joyful acceptance and celebration of transgender and gender-diverse

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Rachelle Gardner

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Happy release day to author Kat Armas! Many Christians today are seeking to disentangle biblical teaching from power structures that marginalize women and people of color. There’s a hunger for a new kind of devotional that offers refreshing and relevant ways to connect with God and the Bible—ways that challenge readers to seek out a more liberated and embodied faith.

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Rachelle Gardner

AUGUST 29, 2023

Happy release day to author Kathi Lipp ! “The Accidental Homesteader: What I’ve Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home” hits shelves today. Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom she’s gained on her homestead journey to help you accomplish more at home, gain fresh perspective, and give yourself grace in the process. Highly practical, humorous, and inspirational, “The Accidental Homesteader” will encourage you to live with more peace, joy, and contentment.

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Rachelle Gardner

AUGUST 15, 2023

Congratulations to scholar, theologian, and clinical psychologist Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes on the release of your new book! “Sacred Self-Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves” is a course on nourishing our souls, with daily readings, prompts and prayers on practicing self-compassion, setting boundaries, accessing pleasure and joy, identifying priorities, and establishing routines that reflect our values.

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Rachelle Gardner

AUGUST 15, 2023

Congratulations author Johanna Rojas Vann on the release of your debut novel! In “An American Immigrant,” a Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment in the one place she never thought she’d go—Colombia. This is a beautiful heartwarming novel about rediscovering our family stories. Congrats also to Johanna’s agent Kristy Cambron!

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Rachelle Gardner

AUGUST 1, 2023

I am so excited about this book! Dietitian Leslie Schilling offers us insight and tools to recognize the lies of diet culture and to free ourselves from them. I am so excited about this book! Dietitian Leslie Schilling offers us insight and tools to recognize the lies of diet culture and to free ourselves from them. FEED YOURSELF helps us understand diet culture myths, fight the lies we’ve been sold, and discover the truth about our health and well-being.

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Rachelle Gardner

JULY 18, 2023

When Amanda first told me she wanted to write a book about the “emotional prosperity gospel,” I couldn’t say YES fast enough! Many Christians deny the prosperity gospel—the idea that God wants you to be healthy and wealthy— but embrace its more subtle spin-off, the emotional prosperity gospel, the belief that happiness and spiritual euphoria will follow if you believe the right things and make the right choices.

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Rachelle Gardner

JULY 11, 2023

Congratulations to author Sarah E. Ladd on the release of her latest novel! “In the Shelter of Hollythorne House” is a regency featuring second-chance love and forbidden romance. Happy release day, Sarah! The post New Release Spotlight: Sarah E. Ladd appeared first on Rachelle Gardner.

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Rachelle Gardner

MAY 30, 2023

Congratulations to author Marcie Alvis Walker the release of her debut book! I knew from the first time I read Marcie’s words that she was a writer whose words would be world-changing. A writer I’d be honored and thrilled to walk alongside. The reviews are in and everyone agrees. This is a must-read, gorgeous piece of work. I am so very proud of Marcie for this beautiful book and the incredible journey it represents.

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Rachelle Gardner

MARCH 21, 2023

THIS BOOK. Y’all, this book. This one has been needed for so long! In Sensual Faith, Lyvonne Briggs draws on a womanist perspective to exhort Black women to overcome religious shame and love their bodies. It’s time to practice a spirituality that harmonizes our bodies with pleasure and sexuality. The world has made Black women feel as if their bodies are mere instruments, and Christianity has positioned sexuality as evil.

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Rachelle Gardner

MARCH 7, 2023

Happy release day to author Kaitlin B. Curtice as this beautiful book hits the shelves! Katilin’s poetry and stories speak to the soul. Her stirring call to action fills my heart with the courage for resistance. Her approach to belonging and connecting with self and others through everyday practices is exactly what we need in these fraught times! The stunning cover art is by Morning Star Designs , a mixed French-First Nations artist.

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Rachelle Gardner

JANUARY 31, 2023

Congratulations and happy release day to debut novelist Becca Kinzer! This delightful rom-com features mistaken identity, enemies to lovers, sweet romance, and plenty of laughs. Closed-door sizzles throughout! “Dear Henry, Love, Edith” is available now. The post New Release Spotlight: Becca Kinzer appeared first on Rachelle Gardner.

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Rachelle Gardner

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Congratulations to author Sandra María Van Opstal on the release of FORTY DAYS OF BEING AN EIGHT, part of the “Enneagram Daily Reflections” series. The series explores the enneagram as a profound tool for empathy, guiding readers in personal growth and enhancing relationships across the enneagram spectrum. Latina pastor, activist, and worship leader Sandra Maria Van Opstal explores both the gifts and the weaknesses inherent in being an Eight, sharing stories of her own journey alongside enneagra

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Rachelle Gardner

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I’m excited to announce Kristy Cambron has joined Gardner Literary as our newest agent! Kristy has been a published author since 2014 with numerous books for HarperCollins including historical fiction, Bible studies, Bibles, a Bible study journal, and a gift book anthology for Dayspring. She has also served as a Women’s Ministry Leader for one of the nation’s largest churches, and spent fifteen years in enterprise learning and leadership development for a Fortune 100 corporation.

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Rachelle Gardner

JANUARY 4, 2022

Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory will help you start your New Year off right! Go into 2022 with greater peace and a plan for managing your busy life. “An Abundant Place” will encourage you and offer helpful solutions to make your everyday life so much easier. Get good advice on how to plan ahead, set boundaries with others and yourself, and be more intentional about self-care without the guilt.

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Rachelle Gardner

JANUARY 18, 2022

Congratulations and happy release day to Candice Marie Benbow! Candice BRINGS IT with her essays on a progressive Christian faith that incorporates activism, feminism, and radical authenticity. Author Brittney Cooper says, “Candice Marie Benbow is a once-in-a-generation theologian, the kind who, having ground dogma into dust with the fine point of a stiletto, leads us into the wide-open spaces of faith.”.

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Rachelle Gardner

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Congratulations and happy release day to Cole Arthur Riley ! In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation. “From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive.

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Rachelle Gardner

MARCH 2, 2022

Congratulations and happy new release to Sarah Ladd! Sarah’s latest Regency romance, The Letter From Briarton Park, combines mystery and intrigue with the best of historical storytelling. Cassandra Hale grew up knowing little about her parentage, and had made peace with the fact that she never would. But Cassandra’s world shifts when a shocking deathbed confession reveals a two-year-old letter with hints to her family’s identity.

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Rachelle Gardner

MARCH 3, 2022

Congratulations Cole Arthur Riley! This debut book hit the New York Times bestseller list a week after its release. We’re all so excited! It’s a beautiful and unforgettable book, one that permanently changes the way you live in the world. Congrats, Cole! February 22, 2022. Convergent Books, Penguin Random House. The post Congratulations to Cole Arthur Riley, New York Times bestseller!

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Rachelle Gardner

APRIL 12, 2022

So excited to announce this release from Idelette McVicker! This beautiful, heart-wrenching and hard-hitting book is a must-read for all who want to dismantle white supremacy. Idelette says, “This book is a journey out of whiteness and reckoning with my place in the crime against humanity that was apartheid in South Africa. But we also know racism is not just a South African story.

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Rachelle Gardner

MAY 3, 2022

Happy book release to Kirsten Watson ! As a mom of seven kids, wife of a professional athlete and cohost of a popular podcast, Kirsten is often asked by other women, “How do you do it?” They see her with her hands full and wonder, What keeps her going—and smiling—with everything she’s juggling? Kirsten’s answer begins with a simple first step: take a breath.

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Rachelle Gardner

JULY 12, 2022

Congratulations, Kristy Cambron! THE ITALIAN BALLERINA is Kristy’s ninth historical novel, taking us behind the scenes of one of the greatest cons in world history. Rome, 1943. With the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British ballerina Julia Bradbury is stranded and forced to take refuge at a hospital, but when she learns of a deadly sickness sweeping through the quarantine wards—a fake disease known as Syndrome K—she risks everything to rescue Jewish Italians from the deadly clutches

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Rachelle Gardner

JULY 19, 2022

Congrats to debut author Amanda Held Opelt. . This book was a labor of love and sorrow. I’m so grateful for Amanda’s dedication, because “A Hole in the World” is a beautiful, raw, and authentic exploration of grief and how we live with it. . On top of that, it’s truly a compelling read. Whether or not you’ve experienced deep grief, this book will open your eyes and shepherd you on your personal journey. .

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Rachelle Gardner

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Congrats and happy release day to author Kelley Nikondeha! . “The First Advent in Palestine” brings to life the true context of Mary and Joseph on that fateful night in Bethlehem. Rome and Caesar loom, and young Mary’s strength and resolve shine brightly as we begin to truly understand what it meant for her to live in the tumultuous Galilee region. .

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Rachelle Gardner

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Congrats to author Karen González! . Karen’s new release, “Beyond Welcome,” is a beautiful invitation for all of us to see immigration in a different way, to see all people as created in the image of God. . It’s a call to dismantle white supremacy and xenophobia in the church. The book equips us to place immigrants themselves in the center of the conversation and to see ourselves in the shared humanity. .

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Rachelle Gardner

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Congratulations to G. Scott Morris on the release of Care: How People of Faith Can Respond to Our Broken Health System! Our health system doesn’t work for the most vulnerable. This book addresses how people of faith can respond with concrete action to demonstrate God’s love and effect real change. This book calls readers to awareness, action, and advocacy.

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