Welcome to Santos Books

At Santos Books LLC, our mission is to provide a welcoming and inclusive space for your story. Frederick Buechner was fond of saying that we are all saints and sinners. And he always wrote as if he was speaking to the saint in each of us, even if we didn't believe it ourselves. In providing this sacred space, our purpose is to lower the barriers between scholarly and non-scholarly writing, poetic and noetic, first-time and longtime writer. 

We offer a range of services to nurture your calling to write, from coaching as a developmental editor, to assessing your manuscript for publication, to walking with you through the publishing experience, and then helping to promote your book. We are currently coaching ten authors in various stages of writing.  For a conversation about any of these services, please email Conrad L Kanagy at kanagy.conrad@gmail.com.

Santos Books LLC is committed to providing a wide range of books that are nurtured by our work as a experienced writer, editor, and publisher. We do not assume that stories come to us "ready-made" but that our responsibilty is to help make the story. That is what Carey Newman did for me as a writer and is my hope is to give that gift to others. In other words, our goal is more gate-opener than gate-keeper. But each manuscript goes through a rigorous vetting process before acceptance.

Conrad L. Kanagy, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at ELizabethtown College and a former Mennonite minister. He has been writing about trends in American and global religion for three decades, and most recently wrote the biography of Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann (Fortress, 2023). He is the current editor of four books by Brueggemann, and co-author forthcoming book with Brueggemann. Kanagy teaches intensive writing and research courses to undergraduates.. He has authored or edited fifteen books, but more than anything consides himself a teacher.