Christian Fiction For the Rest of Us

David Long, an acquisitions editor for Bethany House Publishers has an interesting blog going: Faith in Fiction, which is exploring the idea of Christian fiction that pushes the traditional boundaries of CBA fiction (Christian Booksellers Association). The blog has been going for almost a year now and is a bankrolled project of Bethany House, though you wouldn’t know it from reading the blog. David seems to have a tremendous amount of freedom in questioning the status quo.

It’s unclear what books have been acquired or even published as a result of the blog, but the fact that the blog is still around a year later implies that Bethany House is serious. Aspiring novelists who chafe at the CBA leash might want to check it out.

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