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 ...

The 2023 American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) conference took place in St. Louis from August 24 – 27, attracting more than 350 authors, agents, publishers, and aspiring writers who participated ...

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 ...

Young will speak at First United Methodist Church at 4 p.m. Thursday, July 30 about her decision to start writing Christian fiction. "There is an ever-growing appetite out there among people who want ...

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 ...

Sharon Hinck always wonders, “Why not?” when asked “Why now?” regarding the growing popularity of faith-based speculative (spec) fiction. As a four-time winner of the Evangelical Christian Publishers ...