Located at the edge of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Alive Communications is ultimately known by the company we keep: our authors tell the story of what we do. Their success can be measured in a number of ways:

• Best-sellers. Ten books represented by Alive Communications have reached the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Almost 100 of our titles a year appear on the national best-seller lists, including USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, and more.
• Sales. Twenty-one Alive titles have sold more than one million copies each. Each year, Alive agents negotiate hundreds of book and sub-right sales with dozens of publishers in the United States and around the world (see partial list below).
• Awards. Alive authors have been honored with hundreds of major literary awards and are regularly profiled in national media.

Notwithstanding such recognition, the heart of Alive Communications is a love for words, and for discovering and serving today's best, most gifted authors. Alive agents all come from publishing backgrounds, and their love for the craft is evident. By serving the message and the messenger well, Alive Communications ensures that each author grows professionally to the next level.

Alive agents are individuals with proven track records in the industry. They are known for their love of words, strategic thinking, negotiation skills, business acumen, relational abilities, and marketing savvy. They represent authors in a wide variety of genres: adult fiction and non-fiction (self-help, biography, theology, memoir), youth/teen fiction and non-fiction, children's, gift books, Bibles, and more. Alive's authors' works are showcased wherever books are sold - from independent booksellers to national chains and mass merchandisers, from catalogs to grocery stores, airports to web sites. 

Alive Communications was founded in 1989 by S. Rickly Christian, a Stanford graduate who wrote several best-selling books while working for a number of publications, including The Saturday Evening Post. Today, he is joined by agents Lee Hough, Beth Jusino, and Joel Kneedler. The agency's effectiveness has earned national press attention, with agency profiles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, and Christianity Today.

Clients of Alive Communications have had works published by more than 100 world-class publishers, including Augsburg; Avon; Baker; Ballantine; Bantam; Barbour; Barrons; Berkley; Bethany House; B & H Books; Campus Life; Chariot-Victor/Cook; Checkerboard; Christian Herald; J Countryman; Crossway; Current; Dayspring; Dearborn Trade; Death Valley; Dell; Dimension; Discovery; Dodd-Mead; Doubleday; Dutton; Eerdmans; Farrar, Strauss & Giroux; Focus on the Family; Garborg's; Group; Guideposts; Hachette Livre (formerly Warner Books); Hallmark; Harlequin; HarperCollins; HarperSanFrancisco; Harvard Common Press; Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Harvest House; Helmers & Howard; Highland; Hodder and Stoughton; Honor; Howard Books; InterVarsity; John Wiley & Sons; Jossey-Bass; Jove; Judson; LA Times; LeLeche League International; LifeJourney; LifeWay; Lion Hudson; Little Brown; Logos; Macmillan; McGraw-Hill; Rand McNally; Monarch, Mongoose; Moody Press; William Morrow; Multnomah; NavPress; Thomas Nelson; New American Library; New Leaf Press; Oxford University; Penguin Putnam (Viking); Prentice Hall; Publications International; Regal; Regnery; Revell; Review & Herald; Servant; Shaw; Simon & Schuster; St. Martin's; Stackpole; Standard; Starburst; Taylor; Tehabi Books; Tommy Nelson; Tribune Media Services; Tyndale; University of Oklahoma Press; Walker & Co.; WaterBrook; Westminster/John Knox; Wildcat Canyon; W; Zondervan; Zonderkidz; and dozens of publishers around the world.

Clients have had works optioned or adapted for film, television, and video by ABC-TV, Amblin Entertainment, Batjac Productions, Nickolas Barris, CBS-TV, Cloud Ten, Columbia Pictures Television, Desert Dog Productions, Deverman & Assoc., Dick Clark Productions, Digital Horizon, E.O. Productions International, Focus on the Family Films, Gospel Films, Hallmark, Hearst Entertainment, Melissa Mathison, Grace McAdams, Milestone Entertainment, Namesake Entertainment, NBC-TV, Open Road Productions, Promenade Pictures, STARS, Vision Videos, Wind Dancer Production Group, and Wing and a Prayer.