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 ...

Feel transported into a faith-filled world of true love and swoon-worthy moments with our top 10 favorite butterfly-inducing Christian romance books. From sweeping sagas by Karen Kingsbury that may ...

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 ...

And other replies to the January/February issue. It’s long been clear that CT readers are also book readers, and we see this especially around our January/February Book Awards issue. This year, we saw ...

The 24th Annual Christy Award Gala, which honored the top Christian novels published in 2023, took place Thursday, Nov. 14, in Downers Grove, Illinois, with event drawing a record crowd of more than ...

According to research, Noah from “The Notebook” is the most beloved book boyfriend (33%). A recent survey of 2,000 romance readers found that Christian Grey from the “Fifty Shades” series (28%) and ...

Check the furthermost part of the bookstore. On the left, all the way to the back, down the stairs, past mythology and social sciences. It’s the shelf on the end, the one filled with paperback spines ...

Romance books are the most popular genre in the publishing world, and for good reason. Love stories appeal to everyone, from teenagers to great-grandparents, and romance novels offer escape with the ...

When people think of historical romance, the most common images conjured up are probably set in the Regency period. It’s the era of Jane Austen, empire-waist gowns, and bonnets everywhere. But there’s ...