About Rachelle Gardner

Rachelle has been in the publishing business for thirteen years, working in various positions encompassing marketing, sales, international rights, acquisitions and editorial. Her most recent in-house position was as Senior Developmental and Acquisitions Editor with NavPress, where she originated, developed and launched the NavPress Fiction line, including three Christy Award finalists and an ECPA Award finalist in its first year. She acquired and edited numerous nonfiction books as well, including A Sacred Sorrow by Michael Card, winner in the Christian Living category of the 2006 ECPA Award.

Rachelle has been a collaborative writer of eight books and edited more than sixty, including such authors as Mary DeMuth, Lisa Samson, Jill and Stuart Briscoe, and Brandilyn Collins. For the past two years, she has been freelance editing and writing for a variety of publishers including Thomas Nelson, Waterbrook, NavPress, Zondervan, Bethany House, Harvest House, and FaithWords.

Prior to entering Christian publishing, Rachelle spent nine years in mainstream publishing. She started at General Publishing Group in Santa Monica, California, where she was Director of Rights and Marketing, managing departments of special sales, subsidiary rights, international rights, international sales and domestic marketing. Among other things, she built and managed a team of international sales agents; and represented the company in Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Chicago and New York.

Before coming to publishing, Rachelle spent five years at Fox Broadcasting Company where she served as Special Programming Coordinator, working on more than sixty network television specials including the Emmy Awards and Billboard Music Awards. Her bachelor’s degree is in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, and she later did graduate studies in Psychology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Rachelle lives with her firefighter husband, two elementary school-aged daughters and a fun-loving yellow lab at the breathtaking altitude of 7,000 feet in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.

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Rachelle Gardner
WordServe Literary
P.O. Box 1089
Monument, CO 80132
rachelle@wordserveliterary.com

Rachelle’s award-nominated acquisitions

A Sacred Sorrow (ECPA Award WINNER, 2006) by Michael Card

Chateau of Echoes (Christy Award finalist, 2006) by Siri L. Mitchell

Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther (ECPA Award Finalist, 2006) by Ginger Garrett

Watching the Tree Limbs (Christy Award finalist, 2007) by Mary E. DeMuth

The Proof - Mars Hill Classified Series (Christy Award finalist, 2007) by Austin Boyd

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