A lot of people who read
general market fiction (including Christians) don't realise Christian fiction is a thing.
While I mostly read and review Christian fiction, I also read
some general market fiction.
Christian fiction comes in a range of genres I suspect there are Christian versions of most of the genres found in
general market fiction (with the exception of erotica and gay romance, for obvious reasons).
But I do read
some general market fiction as well... but the writing has to be good.
Do you read Christian fiction,
general market fiction, or both?
General market fiction often has too much swearing, violence, or sex for my taste.
But they tend to read either
general market fiction, or Christian fiction from US authors).
Not exact matches
Then, build a case as to why it also may fit the
general fiction (maybe spec fic)
market as well.
Agent Brian Tibbetts is interested in representing new works of
fiction and nonfiction for the
general market.
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But the more
general question that you're really asking is the same as Sharon's: How do you
market fiction?
By God's will and pleasure, during my career as a literary agent I have been successful in representing authors writing Christian romance, Christian and
general market trade book
fiction, and Christian nonfiction.
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Similarly, like Sarah Hutchison commented to this article, I had some great feedback from several agents about my novel but the
general consensus was, my novel «The First Sense» was not commercial enough for them to
market in today's competitive publishing industry (its genre is future
fiction / sci - fi).
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I read a wide variety of books —
fiction and nonfiction, Christian books and
general market books too.
Sales of
fiction, traditionally the strongest category on the
general market, dropped by 6.7 % in 2014, the reason for this being the absence of major bestselling titles.
Yet Deeanne Gist is a Christian author — one who has switched from traditional Christian
fiction for a CBA publisher to «Christian lite» romances for a
general market publisher.
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She seeks Christian romance
fiction (fresh stories within the romance novel framework); commercial or
general fiction that 1) has a place in the Christian Booksellers Association, and 2) has romantic elements;
general market (secular)
fiction that involves a clean story and disrespectful elements toward faith, and nonfiction from writers with an excellent platform.
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YouTube
marketing for
fiction is a fun way to do release announcements, cover reveals and
general updates to your publishing world that will interest fans.
Kirsty Wilson, sales and
marketing director at Melbourne - based Text Publishing, says crime, sci - fi, fantasy and
general fiction are also popular in digital.
Hyperion, founded in 1991, publishes
general - interest
fiction and non-
fiction hardcover, trade, and mass -
market paperback books for adults and includes the Voice, ABC Daytime Press, Hyperion East, and Miramax imprints.
Many of these requests are clearly outside my preferred genre (like being offered
general market memoir when I say I review Christian
fiction).
These core readers allow for the existence of specialty category
markets, which are the adjunct interactive
markets with
general fiction.
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