Cover reveal: 'Untrustworthy'
Plus: The release date and pre-order links!
I think I’ve been promising this as my next email topic for months now, but the day is finally here! I can show you the cover for my forthcoming book, Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community.
I’m not sure if you can tell at this scale, but there’s a subtle newspaper-y texture, which is very nice. Also, it’s a hardcover!
The release date is October 11, 2022, and you can pre-order at these links now:
I know Amazon is easiest, but currently you can save $10 by ordering straight from Baker, my publisher, or you can support an independent, Christian bookstore by buying from Hearts & Minds.
If you’re thinking about buying my book—and since you’re here, I sorta assume you are—please, please pre-order.
It’s difficult to overstate how important pre-orders are for a book’s success these days. When you pre-order, you are:
telling my publisher people are excited about my book and it’s worth spending money on marketing
telling booksellers there’s demand for my book and they should both stock up on copies and display it prominently on their shelves and websites
telling algorithms on big sites like Amazon to recommend my book to other customers
giving me a better shot at hitting a bestseller list
earning my eternal gratitude
I’m serious about that last one, because I’ve been writing about our brain-breaking, politics-polluting, community-corrupting information environment for some time now—in columns at both Christianity Today and The Week—delving into political and digital culture, online paranoia, and the press itself. The more I’ve researched and written, the more I’ve come to think calling our knowledge problem a “crisis” isn’t hyperbolic.
And if you’re beginning to think the same, if a certain disquiet has begun to engulf you when you read the news or browse social media, Untrustworthy is for you. I hope and pray you’ll find it useful.
And, yeah, that you’ll pre-order a bunch of copies now.
Best,
Bonnie
What is trust? You call this untrustworthy? I am alone working to write down clearly upon my tablet a vision to foster trust. So it is I find your book title interesting. I found you because I found truth in a thought you had from a article you wrote for a major conservative outlet. It suggested basically this generation was to weak for war. Knowing this and being peace loving people how can we make change within our own lives first to establish character and trust and our communities? The answer is that I would have to be such a wonderfully almost good system that everyone would have to stand to benefit greatly. Contact me on how you can have a second book. A follow up to untrustworthiness. A solution. This is not a advertising calling. This is a answer to following Jesus in that age to come which is now. However, as I am not Jesus and merely am abiding in the blood ban open to discussion and have a willingness to repent if I am in error. How can we chat?