During its first in-person gathering since 2019, the 2022 American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) conference took place in St. Louis, Mo. from September 8-11, attracting over 300 attendees. The ...

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 ...

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. But not “a ...

Round up a passel of publishers of Christian historical fiction these days and you’ll notice something interesting: A large number of westerns—novels set in the Wild West of the past complete with ...

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 ...

Ink Marks the Spot LLC dba ChristShare announces a guide for Christian authors publishing beyond Amazon KDP exclusivity, highlighting wider distribution, competitive royalties, and reduced platform ...