Our Team

Publishing Director

USA Today best-selling Susan May Warren is the multi-award-winning novelist of over 80 novels in five different genres. With nearly 2 million books sold, her stories have been translated into French, Dutch, Polish, German, Swedish, Ukrainian and Italian, and are on the bookshelves around the world, as far away South Africa, Australia, and Russia. She’s been featured in Christian Women Today magazine, and appeared on the Harvest show and other national television shows.

Susan is also the founder of Novel.Academy, a school for novelists focused on building careers. She loves to coach authors to publication and beyond, and seeing their careers flourish.

Before all this, however, Susan and her husband Andrew, along with their four children served as missionaries in Siberia, Russia for eight years. Now adult children, they live around the world, and Susan enjoys visiting them and hanging out with her adorable granddaughter.

Find her at www.susanmaywarren.com.

Editorial Director

Lindsay Harrel is a CBA best-selling novelist of romantic women’s fiction and lifelong book nerd who lives in Arizona with her young family and two golden retrievers in serious need of training.

With more than 15 years of editing and writing experience gained doing a variety of jobs, Lindsay now juggles stay-at-home mommyhood with writing novels.  As the Editorial Director of Sunrise Publishing, she has a passion for not only helping authors improve their stories and find their voice, but also for getting messages of hope out into the world.

When she’s not writing or chasing after her children, Lindsay enjoys making a fool of herself at Zumba, curling up with anything by Jane Austen, and savoring sour candy one piece at a time.

Connect with her at www.LindsayHarrel.com.

Marketing Manager

A lawyer in her former life, Rel Mollet has been assisting authors for the past seven years, providing Author Support Services, undertaking the tasks they’d rather do without, and freeing them up to do what they do best—write!

A founding member of the INSPY Awards, Rel has been book blogging since late 2006 at Relz Reviewz, and was a judge for the premier Christian industry award for six years. Her passion for the written word was established from the moment she could read, now evidenced by overflowing bookcases and a towering TBR pile.

Rel resides in Melbourne, Australia with her movie-loving husband and three sometimes book-loving daughters.

Production Manager

Sarah Erredge is an aspiring author with a background in event coordination and project management, living out her dream of working at home with her dogs. Sarah has a passion for helping others meet their goals, whether that’s seeing a bride down the aisle as a wedding coordinator, or watching a book launch as the Production Manager for Sunrise Publishing.

When she’s not working or writing, Sarah can be found cuddling with her kiddo and two dogs or binge watching murder documentaries. 

Marketing and Editorial Assistant

Esther Shull is a recent graduate from Bethel University, St. Paul with a degree in History and Digital Humanities. A firm believer in the power of stories, she aspires to make use of her runaway imagination as an author one day, and so bring a little more light to this world. 

When she isn’t promoting the latest books from Sunrise Publishing, you can find Esther bingeing a new TV series, chilling with her sibs at home, or dreaming up a story.