Left Behind-Nonconservative Christian Novelists

Jennifer Bridges asks an interesting question about the intermingling of conservative talk celebrities with christian novel promotion at her blog Random Rants and Ravings.When she refers to the novel, Ezekiel Option that received recommendations from Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Tim LaHaye, and NewsMax.

Free market capitalism and conservative Christianity aren't natural bedfellows. But, they have become aligned and I'm really curious how and why.

My question: How does a non-left wing christian author[let's say a single black healing mother] form a successful book marketing campaign when most Christian media is linked to christian organizations that are against the plight of a single black healing mom? Or in simpler terms is their room for non-left Christian authors in the industry? How would this kind of author convince a publisher to take a chance on her? Even if she has a built in audience that isn't mainstream christian counterculture?

DEe

The Craft: Jump Cuts

Starting this week Christian Fiction Blog will try to post at least once a week on the writing craft, writing techniques and the like. Ray Rhamey at Flogging the Quill teaches a pacing technique to collapse time. So if you are trying to get around describing every thing your character must do to get from point A to point B, this technique is for you. Definitely a good idea to use when writing the second draft.

Writing to see what the end's gon' be,
Dee