Jeff and I flew to the International Christian Retail Show in Denver on Sunday night. This is an annual event in different cities where all the Christian publishers come out and set up huge exhibit booths in this massive convention center, and Christian booksellers walk around and investigate the new books that are being released in the next six months.
It’s a time when everyone in the Christian publishing industry is all in one place at one time, and it’s normally one of the most fun times of the year for me. But this year was a little different. We found out about three days before ICRS that Multnomah, our beloved publishing company, is being sold. We got a call right beforehand, late at night, from Don Jacobson, the current owner of ...