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 ...

After selling more than 14 million copies last year alone, Colleen Hoover’s novels, such as It Ends with Us and It Begins with Us, continue to dominate bestseller lists in 2023, and publishers are ...

As Christian romances make their way to theaters, their writers are seizing opportunities for evangelism. This spring, Someone Like You, based on the Christian romance novel by author Karen Kingsbury ...

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 ...

Archbold native Sarah Short has turned a lifelong love of storytelling into a published novel. Her debut work, Always and ...

Big Spring, Texas / / September 3, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Summary Clean Content: Faith-based mysteries avoid profanity, ...

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 ...

When E.L. James said her marriage vows, she probably couldn’t predict that one day, she and her husband, Niall Leonard, would be choreographing a sex scene in broad daylight in the front of a parked ...