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	<title>Comments on: Convincing librarians to buy Christian fantasy fiction</title>
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		<title>By: Editor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What I can&#039;t figure out is why this is such an orphan genre, in the wake of two major movie series--the Lord of the Rings and the Narnia tales.  Maybe we need to be trying to promote Christian fantasy movie scripts instead of Christian fantasy books.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I can&#8217;t figure out is why this is such an orphan genre, in the wake of two major movie series&#8211;the Lord of the Rings and the Narnia tales.  Maybe we need to be trying to promote Christian fantasy movie scripts instead of Christian fantasy books.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca LuElla Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rebecca LuElla Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phyllis, a couple titles that meet the library standard (including a PW favorable review): George Bryan Polivka&#039;s &lt;i&gt;The Legend of the Firefish&lt;/i&gt; and Karen Hancock&#039;s &lt;i&gt;Arena&lt;/i&gt; (now out of print, but possibly still available from the author or from the publisher, Bethany House.

There could easily be others, but those are the ones that came to mind immediately.

And from what editors say over and over again, the secret to getting more Christian fantasy in print is if the Christian fantasy out there already sells and sells and sells.

Believe it or not, in the last two years there have been some very positive strides made, but of course we have a long way to go before we see Christian fantasy outweigh, say, historicals or even suspense.

Becky</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phyllis, a couple titles that meet the library standard (including a PW favorable review): George Bryan Polivka&#8217;s <i>The Legend of the Firefish</i> and Karen Hancock&#8217;s <i>Arena</i> (now out of print, but possibly still available from the author or from the publisher, Bethany House.</p>
<p>There could easily be others, but those are the ones that came to mind immediately.</p>
<p>And from what editors say over and over again, the secret to getting more Christian fantasy in print is if the Christian fantasy out there already sells and sells and sells.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, in the last two years there have been some very positive strides made, but of course we have a long way to go before we see Christian fantasy outweigh, say, historicals or even suspense.</p>
<p>Becky</p>
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		<title>By: Cynthia MacKinnon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cynthia MacKinnon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ditto Veronica.

Phyllis, I realize you are doing this to provide good reading material for readers, however, your hard work helps the authors of whom you speak. 

This is a great example of what to do in order have the books you want to read (or think you may want to read) on shelves of both libraries and bookstores. 

A sidebar: The Lost Genre mentioned above is a name coined by Frank Creed who founded the Lot Genre Guild. You can read more about the Lost Genre at various places depending on your level of interest:

--http://www.lostgenreguild.com is the guild&#039;s official site
--http://blog.lostgenreguild.com that features genre news and events (book signings, new releases, interviews, reviews, etc.) 
--http://www.guildreview.com for reviews of works of Christian and Biblical speculative fiction (they give preference to novels not published by the big Christian houses)
--http://lostgenreguild.com/files/LGGcat.pdf is the current catalogue of Lost Genre offerings

There is also the site of Frank Creed (http://www.frankcreed.com) the founder of the guild.

(hope you don&#039;t consider this spamming -- just thought folks might want to get a better idea of what is available in the way of information.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ditto Veronica.</p>
<p>Phyllis, I realize you are doing this to provide good reading material for readers, however, your hard work helps the authors of whom you speak. </p>
<p>This is a great example of what to do in order have the books you want to read (or think you may want to read) on shelves of both libraries and bookstores. </p>
<p>A sidebar: The Lost Genre mentioned above is a name coined by Frank Creed who founded the Lot Genre Guild. You can read more about the Lost Genre at various places depending on your level of interest:</p>
<p>&#8211;http://www.lostgenreguild.com is the guild&#8217;s official site<br />
&#8211;http://blog.lostgenreguild.com that features genre news and events (book signings, new releases, interviews, reviews, etc.)<br />
&#8211;http://www.guildreview.com for reviews of works of Christian and Biblical speculative fiction (they give preference to novels not published by the big Christian houses)<br />
&#8211;http://lostgenreguild.com/files/LGGcat.pdf is the current catalogue of Lost Genre offerings</p>
<p>There is also the site of Frank Creed (<a href="http://www.frankcreed.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.frankcreed.com</a>) the founder of the guild.</p>
<p>(hope you don&#8217;t consider this spamming &#8212; just thought folks might want to get a better idea of what is available in the way of information.</p>
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		<title>By: Veronica Holden</title>
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		<dc:creator>Veronica Holden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for doing this Phyllis! It seems sad that the library is more interested in what is popular and mainstream than what is educational and welll-written.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for doing this Phyllis! It seems sad that the library is more interested in what is popular and mainstream than what is educational and welll-written.</p>
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