In 1997, DeeAnne Gist caught the attention of a top New York literary agent. Though impressed by her book manuscript, a romance set in 16th-century Jamestown, Va., the agency felt it was too risky to ...

Publishing novels devoid of profanity, violence, or explicit sexuality is still the modus operandi for Christian houses. Increasingly, however, content within the Christian fiction category is ...

PW asked publishers, agents, and authors if it matters in the marketplace when an ostensibly “Christian” novel that steers ...

And other replies to the January/February issue. It’s long been clear that CT readers are also book readers, and we see this especially around our January/February Book Awards issue. This year, we saw ...

Christian fictions positively illustrate and describe a Christian worldview through its plot, characters, and themes. These works do not have to involve an actual event or character in the history of ...

Christian speculative fiction struggles to get onto bookstore shelves. So the genre is opening other portals to readers. The annual Realm Makers gathering—held in 2024 at a Sheraton in St. Louis—has ...

Wordsmith World has published "Lilli's Song," a Christian science fiction cozy mystery for American teens. The book blends ...

Jannean Hedgespeth is an author of Christian children’s books and adult Christian fiction books. She joined us today along with her husband Lamont Hedgespeth for a “Finding Faith with Randy Ollis” ...

E-books appear to be doing for religious books what they did for erotica. After years of choppy sales, publishers of religious books posted revenue growth of 7% last year, to $1.45 billion — driven ...