When my book about Amish fiction, Thrill of the Chaste, came out in the beginning of 2013, lots of people asked me, ?Is Amish fiction here to stay?? Those in-the-know added, ?Or will it go the way of Christian chick lit?? That is: to the grave? (In 2005, an article in the New York Post suggested that Christian chick lit was ?one of the biggest growth industries in American publishing.? Within a year the subgenre had ?lost all momentum,? according to literary agent Steve Laube.)
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