I was skimming the New York Times Bestseller Lists for both print and e-book combined for fiction from April 2012 – July 2012. I only looked at the top 15 titles, I didn’t view the extended list. It was interesting to see two self-published secular titles listed as bestsellers. Do you know of any other NY Times Bestsellers that are self-published titles? Far as I know, the author of On The Island got a major seven figure deal with a traditional publisher.

ON THE ISLAND, by Tracey Garvis-Graves. (Tracey Garvis-Graves.) An English teacher and the teenage boy she has agreed to tutor are stranded on an island when the seaplane taking them to join his family in the Maldives crashes in the Indian Ocean.

BEAUTIFUL DISASTER, by Jamie McGuire. (Jamie McGuire.) A college girl in search of a new beginning makes a bet with an attractive but dangerous man.

This was the was the only Christian title that I saw on the list for those months in the top fifteen for those months:

LOVING, by Karen Kingsbury. (Zondervan.) Bailey Flanigan must decide: Will she spend her life with Brandon in Los Angeles, or will her heart draw her back to Cody in Indiana?

It’d be great to see more Christian fiction titles in the top fifteen regularly. Wouldn’t it be great if Christian fiction could dominate the list?

~Cecelia Dowdy~