There's got to be a sweet space between the matter and anti-matter of CBA/ABA fiction. I'm just not sure where it is or how to get there. Maybe if I plug my nose and jump through a wormhole in the time/space continuum? Unless that angers the energy gods and messes up the ol' microwave. I'm not sure.

Anyway, yesterday an author buddy of mine chatted with me about the tepid sales of realistic/gritty/sensuous/dark/non-sweet-or-Amish historical titles. What's up with that? Are dinner parties and balls really all that exciting? I think not, but I very well may not be the norm. Okay, so I'm not at all, but doggone if I'm not revved up about reading ABA steamy sex scenes. Not. One. Bit.

Which leaves me and a few other Christian historical writers on Misfit Island. Blue-haired Baptists don't want to read our fare (don't bunch up your undies...I go to a Baptist church...yes, every Sunday and Wednesday so I know what I'm talking about). And neither would a non-believer pick up an overtly "God is my helper" story.

There is one genre, however, that I've taken note of lately that's not afraid to push boundaries way past buggy rides and peck-on-the-cheek kisses...Young Adult. I'm beginning to suspect that maybe, just maybe, this is the hidey hole where gripping Christian historical fiction might be able to gain a foothold.

I'll have to dig around in this idea and see what I unearth. Want to pull out your shovel and get dirty along with me? Goodreads has a list of the Best Young Adult Christian Fiction Books. Let's read a few and see what we uncover.