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 ...

The When Calls the Heart author launched the modern Christian romance genre, seeking to tell stories of faith in hardship. Each day after her class’s noon break, her teacher would read to the class a ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA — A Columbia writer and journalist's new book pulls from her lived experiences — and takes place in a fictional S.C. town. Author Jessica Brodie recently released her first Christian ...

Publishers of Christian fiction are seeing strong sales for dual-timeline novels, where characters and plots slip between ...

JACKSON, Mo. --An avid reader who always thought she might set up the stories differently in the books she read, Cindy Chubboy of Jackson can now sign copies of her first book. "The Rose and the Sword ...

How could anyone not fall in love with a novel inspired by the novelist’s experiences working as a counselor at a camp that created a loving and inclusive environment for children with severe ...