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New rights agreement for Prayer in the Night

Malcolm Down and Sarah receives ECPA 2022

Grace Publishing Christian Book of
the Year Award

Malcolm Down and Sarah Grace Publishing have recently signed with Riggins Rights
Management to represent all of their titles for international foreign rights management. Malcolm InterVarsity Press USA (IVP) is pleased to
has known company founder Cindy Riggins since the late 1990s, when she was international announce that Prayer in the Night: For
rights manager at Thomas Nelson publishers, and is delighted to be working with her again. He Those Who Work or Watch or Weep, by Tish
says, ‘We’ve gradually been building our list over the last seven years to almost 200 titles so Harrison Warren, was named the Christian
now feel the time is right to become more pro-active in selling translation rights.’ Riggins Rights Book of the Year by the Evangelical Christian
Management provide a marketing and sales-driven rights service that manages the full subsidiary Publishers Association (ECPA) at its awards
rights and licensing process from negotiation to contract compliance with an outstanding team of ceremony in Philadelphia on 3 May. Prayer
rights managers who have decades of experience between them. in the Night was also selected as the top
book in the Christian Living category of the
2022 Christian Book Awards.
Framed around a night-time prayer of
Compline, Warren explores themes of
human vulnerability, suffering and God’s
seeming absence. When she navigated
a time of doubt and loss, the prayer was
grounding for her. She writes that practices
of prayer ‘gave words to my anxiety and
grief and allowed me to re-encounter the
Making the impossible possible doctrines of the church not as tidy little
antidotes for pain, but as a light in darkness,
as good news.’
I was raised in an area within the United It all started when I had just finished writing Jeff Crosby, ECPA’s president and publisher
Kingdom where shootings and bombs were so a book that a large USA publisher had re- and the host of the 2022 Christian Book
numerous my attitude was I would likely never quested from me only to find out they sought Awards celebration, said, ‘The prayer of
see twenty-one years-of-age, so what was the $20,000 to publish it. Compline and its earnest plea for God to
point of going to school?
I had the choice of depression as I knew God keep watch over all who work, and who
Even though death did knock on my door was calling me to write books but now the watch, and who weep in the night is a
several times God had a plan, and within that door was closed. Then a light shone, ‘what prayer for all of us, for all time. Tish Harrison
plan I never realised I would sit today as an en- if God wanted me to have my own publish- Warren’s book, so artfully rooted in and
trepreneur of several international companies, ing house?’ After all, there must be more wrapped around the prayer of Compline, has
including a Christian Publishing House. people than me who didn’t have that type had a special
of money. So, the journey began and within resonance in the
three months Maurice Wylie Media (MWM) months since it
was birthed, and God connected me to top was released.
designers, editors, etc. The first year we It’s a book that
published two books, last year we published simultaneously
nineteen books, and already to date twenty has a sense
books are presently being worked on and of immediate
we’re not halfway through the year yet. For relevance and
us at MWM it is never about quantity but of never-
quality, as we say, ‘anyone can write a book, ending value,
very few can place ministry onto paper’. the type of
book that
I am so glad God never requests education will be read
for advancement within the kingdom, but generations
what He does request is an ear to hear and from now.’
a heart to obey. In November we launch our
Asian branch selling into the biggest reading
market of the world – China. For more infor- ISBN 9780830846795/Publisher IVP USA
Maurice Wylie
mation visit www.MauriceWylieMedia.com
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