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 ...

Calling someone nostalgic is an “affectionate insult at best,” Svetlana Boym has written, and few people appreciate the affection. Although the term has shed its medical connotations—it was first used ...

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 ...

On this week's Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon talks to author Shelley Shepard Gray. Gray writes what are sometimes referred to as "bonnet rippers" -- Amish-themed romance novels, which are a ...

Despite the much-discussed 15% drop in Christian fiction print unit sales from 2013 to 2014, as reported by Nielsen BookScan, publishers aren’t sounding the category’s death knell yet. At the same ...

For HarperSanFrancisco, a publisher of religious and spiritual books, the time has come to capitalize on the market for Christian fiction revealed by the success of the "Left Behind" series of ...

DENVER — The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies and bloodsuckers. Even as Christian ...

DENVER—The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies and bloodsuckers. Even as Christian ...