| Credo Communications is pleased to work with some of the best in the business. With over 80 years of combined experience, these literary associates have worked for some of the largest publishers and best nonprofits for decades, and they are authors themselves. We are proud to be associated with them.
Ann Byle joined Credo in 2012 as our newest literary agent. Ann has a long history in Christian publishing and journalism, writing often about the publishing industry for Publishers Weekly and The Grand Rapids Press. She is a professional book reviewer for several publications, as well as a freelance writer for places such as Kyria.com and Cornerstone University. She has worked at Moody Publishing and RBC Ministries, and has been a copyeditor, book review editor, and freelance editor and author. She has written or cowritten four books, including The Making of a Christian Bestseller (2006) and Soul Surfer Devotions (2011) with champion surfer Bethany Hamilton. Ann works with authors whose strong voices offer help for living Christianly in our modern world. She represents both fiction and nonfiction work. Ann grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of a nurse and a writer/editor. She graduated with a degree in English from Bryan College in Dayton, TN. She and her husband Ray, a high school science teacher, live in Grand Rapids and have four children ages 11 to 21. Karen Neumair is another Credo literary agent who works closely with our authors, especially women's issues authors and emerging writers to teens and twenty-somethings. She champions them and their projects with editors at leading publishing houses and walks authors through every step of the book publishing process, from idea development and proposal creation to marketing and networking strategies. Karen brings a commitment to excellence and an attention to detail to the team at Credo. |
Karen grew up in the suburbs of Chicago before moving to Grand Rapids to continue her education at Kuyper College and Cornerstone University. She began her college career as a Secondary Education major, but after changing her major to English, she interned at Credo Communications and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Theology and a B.A. in English. Karen married her husband, Chris, in 2006. They have two daughters, Hannah and Rebecca.
David Sanford wears many hats at Credo Communications: author, editor, and literary agent. Among his many credits, David served as executive editor of Holy Bible: Mosaic, general editor of Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family, managing editor of the Resonate series, co-author of God Is Relevant, and author of If God Disappears. As well, David has represented a wide spectrum of award-winning and bestselling authors published with Zondervan, Tyndale, Thomas Nelson, and other respected Christian publishers (CBA), and with Wiley & Sons, Simon & Schuster, Random House, and other mainstream New York publishers (ABA). In 2003 David and his wife, Renee, founded Sanford Communications, Inc., which became part of Credo Communications LLC in 2008. Prior to starting Sanford Communications, Inc., David served as Vice President of Publishing and Internet Ministries for the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association. Concurrently, David served as an instructor of mass media at Multnomah Biblical Seminary and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Corban University, where he now serves as Director of Communications and Public Relations. David is a lay teaching pastor at Spring Mountain Bible Church in Clackamas, OR, where he lives with Renee and their two youngest children, Benjamin (1997) and Annalise (2000). |
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