Has Christian Publishing Gone Woke?

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges authors face in traditional Christian publishing and the impact of platform size on publishing contracts.

Many authors have received that dreaded rejection letter from a traditional Christian publisher siting platform size as the reason for the rejection. Is there a platform size that makes you a shoo-in for a traditional Christian publisher? What if even millions of followers can’t get you a contract with a traditional Christian publisher? Is there something else going on? In this episode, Chase Replogle and I discuss trends in Christian publishing that we’ve observed from the inside. We’ll disc...

People in this episode

Host: Thomas Umstattd Jr.

Guest: Chase Replogle

Topics covered

• Christian publishing
• rejection letters
• platform size
• trends
• traditional publishing

Keywords

• Christian publishing
• rejection letters
• platform size
• trends
• traditional publishers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Christian publisher

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