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 ...

Christian crime novels mirror God’s redemptive story through patterns of creation, ruin, redemption, and restoration. Reading mystery fiction can strengthen moral discernment and help believers ...

Evangelical novelists have embraced human grit and struggle. Getting readers to notice is its own struggle. Chris Jager started selling fiction at Baker Book House, one of the largest independent ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) has named Kathleen Y’Barbo Turner as its new CEO. The author of more than 120 novels takes over from Colleen Coble, who led the organization for Christian ...