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 ...

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 ...

A CT fiction judge’s challenge to evangelical writers and publishers. For several years CT has asked me to serve as the preliminary fiction judge for the annual book awards. This means that every ...

Christian novel The Shack, written by first-time author William P. Young and privately published by two former pastors, has surprised many critics by taking the No. 1 spot on the New York Times ...

Historian and cultural commentator Daniel Silliman was in graduate school, looking at the history of evangelicalism and dissecting one of Christian fiction’s biggest selling works, the Left Behind ...

Stealing should make you angry. In this remarkable novel, Margaret Verble brings a mid-20th-century story to life through the power of relationships. Her harrowing tale makes it clear that violence ...

In the beginning, writing was just a dream in the mind of a CPA happily enjoying the perks of his field — travel, meeting famous people, learning all the while. But he had this lingering notion. It ...