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 ...

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 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 ...

Though the pandemic brought uncertainty to many aspects of the publishing business, increased sales of adult fiction has been a bright spot and the genre continues to outperform other categories, and ...