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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

A Springfield author’s travel experiences have helped shape her latest novel in a continuing series she’s created. Nancy Flinchbaugh’s “Revelation in the Roots: Emerald Isle” is the third Christian ...