It worked, and she signed on with Bethany House, a Christian books division of Baker Publishing. Inspirational Christian fiction, sometimes called “edgy inspirational,” is a genre that seeks ...

Getting readers to notice is its own struggle. Chris Jager started selling fiction at Baker Book House, one of the largest independent Christian bookstores in the United States, more than 25 years ...

and Christian books can be a lot of things.” Christian fiction often has mimicked successful genres: Romance. Sci-fi. Legal Thrillers. But in Amish fiction, Christian publishing has something it ...

Jenkins’ modern-day stories based on the Book of Revelation appeared in 1995, Christian fiction was typically tucked away in Christian bookstores. Now, 43 million books later, the Left Behind ...

As novelists embrace entrepreneurship, they find ways to take more control. Karen Kingsbury knows how to tell a story. But she’s never done it like this. She has a woman on the ground.

publishers of Christian fiction see increasing demand from the library market. Oates says Bethany is doing well with libraries and has been publishing hardcover library editions of some books.

A shopper who wants a new Christian fiction book might find it easier to buy online – especially while shopping for other goods they would normally purchase on Amazon – than to find the ...

Kingsbury didn’t know much about Christian fiction. “I thought it sounded cheesy,” she said. But when a friend gave her a copy of Francine Rivers’s 1991 book “Redeeming Love,” a ...

I tried to write this book for a general audience—anyone who likes contemporary American fiction and is interested in religion and politics. I try to be fair in my treatment of the Christian Right, ...

who has more than 17 million books in print, according to the publisher. A crowd for the category In addition to the major Christian fiction publishers—HC, Tyndale, Bethany, and Revell—other ...