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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francine Rivers is a name readers of love stories know well. She’s written more than a dozen award-winning romance novels. But after becoming a born-again Christian in 1986, she crossed over-from the ...

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 ...

A literary dawn is beginning to penetrate Christian fiction’s “dark and stormy night,” a decades-long era of critically snubbed novels plagued by cartoonish characters, preposterous plots and preachy ...

Thirty-one years after the publication of Janette Oke’s first pioneer romance, Love Comes Softly, veteran Christian fiction editor Carol Johnson was warmly applauded as she received a lifetime ...

She gripped my hand in the doorway of the church, following the Good Friday service, “I’ve never really liked Jews.” I had just finished a sermon in which I decried present-day harassment of Jews in ...

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 ...