Just for Fiction Folk

Aug

2008

Filed in: Writing | news
Tags: Markets

This just came over the Middle Tennessee Christian Writers loop, prompted by some posts on the ACFW loop. So…the word is getting around. Still worth noting, however, that a new fiction line has been started at Abingdon Press, which is a division of the United Methodist Publishing House. This is a significant change in policy for the UMPH, which has not published fiction (outside children’s and YA books) in recent memory. I THINK AP did fiction a half-century ago, but nothing since the current growth in Christian fiction.

As a result, this is, in my opinion, a serious recognition of the growth in that field. This and the fact that many of the secular houses have added “inspirational” fiction lines. Someone’s paying attention.