05/26/2026
IT’S HAPPENING! 🎉
After two and a half years of waiting, trusting, false starts, long pauses, and more than a few moments of wondering if I had heard God correctly, I am signing a contract with one of the most influential and trusted names in Christian publishing, Moody Publishers - and I am absolutely beside myself with joy!
This is nothing short of the mercy, grace, and kindness of God, and I am humbled and grateful beyond words.
A huge and heartfelt thank you to my agent, Debbie Alsdorf, the incredible team at Books & Such Literary Agency, and to Acquiring Editor Erin Davis at Moody Publishers for championing this project, believing in the vision, and believing in me.
So many personal thank-yous are still to come, because you simply do not arrive at a moment like this without the generosity, prayers, encouragement, and kindness of truly amazing women pouring into you along the way. I am so thankful!
And to my friends who are still growing, still serving, and still stepping boldly into the later years of life, this book is for you. Hope and encouragement to stay the course is on the way!
The book releases in July 2027, and I cannot wait! 🎉
And if you’ll pray for me, I would be so grateful, because this book certainly isn’t going to write itself, and I have an exciting (and slightly terrifying!) amount of work ahead of me. Good thing I know the One who gives words! I can’t do it without Him. 🙏❤️🙌
** Photo by the amazing Angela Laurienzo Photography (aka: my daughter-in-love!) and her talented photography assistant, Evie (aka: my granddaughter!)**
Debbie Alsdorf
Books & Such Literary Management
Moody Publishers