Waterbrook makes New York Times Bestseller's list.

Via Christian Retailing
Dinner With a Perfect Stranger(excerpt) by first-time novelist David Gregory has made it to The New York Times best-seller list, making it WaterBrook Press' first title to be named to the newspaper's list. The book will be included as No. 30 on the expanded Hardcover Fiction list on the newspaper's Web site on Sunday and Aug. 21.

Sunday's list is based on sales ending the week of July 30; the book released July 12.

A novella set almost entirely in a modern-day Italian restaurant, Dinner With a Perfect Stranger is about a skeptical young professional's conversation with Jesus about Christianity.

The book also has gained mainstream national media attention in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, NPR's Day to Day, and Billy Graham's Decision magazine.

WaterBrook, launched in 1996, is an imprint of Random House.

A pretty balanced review of the book can be found at Collect Miscellany.

And catch this--Mr. Gregory sent this manuscript to Waterbrook unsolicited. Yikes!!

Writing to see what the end's gon' be,
Dee