Middle Grade Authors, Christianity, and Publishing, with J.D. Peabody

Part two of our "all the right books"/summer reading series.

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J.D. Peabody joins Chris once again to talk about the state of Christian middle-grade publishing.  You can find his article/interview for Christianity Today on the same subject here.  It is well worth reading.

Among other things, we discuss:

• Current changes to traditionally published Middle Grade fiction
• How those changes apply to Christian Middle Grade fiction
• What would The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit have to change to be published today?
• Redacting books
• "On the Reading of Old Books," by C.S. Lewis
• The rise of independent publishing/self-publishing
• Helping your child develop good judgment
• Book recommendations
• Advice for modern Christian Middle Grade authors
• Monty Python, of course (or maybe just John Cleese?)

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Next week: I'm still deciding, but there's a lot of great stuff to choose from.  You'll like it, I promise!

Music is "Fragrant Fields," by George Winston, from Summer