Christian Fiction
So I’m spending a few days in the same hotel as the American Christian Fiction Writers National Conference. Why? Because my wife is attending, and the thought of goofing off in in Colorado for a few days really appealed to me.
Andrea and I have been talking a lot about the christian fiction industry lately. There are a lot of similarities between the christian fiction and christian music industries.
The key ingredients to marketable christian fiction seem to be: (1) gentle and uplifting, (2) set your novel in the past, (3) capitalize on what’s been done before, and (4) above all, follow the rules. Romance appears to get you a nearly automatic book deal. I’m dying to expound on this more, but I’m amazingly going to exercise restraint. It’s perfect fodder for a Stuff Christians Like blog post. Jon started to go there with this one, but didn’t dive fully into it.
Walking around the hotel with all of these novelists has got me thinking that I should try my hand at fiction. So I’m going to write a short story for you today and publish it tomorrow. The current plan is that it will fall into the Historical Vampire Fiction genre.