Too much of a niche market?

Secular publishers won't reject it for Christian themes, if it is otherwise good enough to warrant an acceptance. Christian publishers understandably require a Christian element to their work, but secular publishers won't generally exclude a work on that basis. It may rub a particularly editor wrong if they're narrow-minded, I suppose, but by and large I don't think that will cause a problem with secular publishers, and you can find work having such themes published by the big publishing houses.

 

I don't think it is quite as bad as that. If the novel is first and foremost a religious novel, you might have better luck with a niche publisher in that area. But the mere fact that Christian themes are included (along the lines of Narnia, for example), won't keep you from a traditional publisher if it is otherwise acceptable.

 

I think you should worry more about whether it's a good book. Themes are universal, and you'd be shocked as to what will be guessed about your intentions with the book from people who have no idea what you set out trying to do. In my experience, people aren't really all that good at divining "obvious" hidden messages. So don't even worry about it.

 

Haha! Steerpile!!

Sorry for the derail here but can we start a petition for an official name change?

 

Ha! I missed that entirely

 

Wow. That is a pretty bad typo. Kinda instantly steals the coolness away from your name, doesn't it? It sounds like something you'd find in the middle of a pasture or in a stockyard.

 

My name and avatar have such a surplus of coolness that any finite amount stolen is rendered mathematically negligible.

By way of illustration, if we consider the set of Steerpike's total coolness C to be infinite, with each element of the set representing some individual point of coolness in the continuum, then one can see that subtraction of any finite number of elements from set C still results in an infinite set.

The starting consideration regarding the infinite nature of set C can be proven from first principles, but should be accepted as a universal law in the interest of expedience. The actual proof requires several forum pages worth of posts, half a dozen wild vermin, and a scraping of mold from bread where the mold has grown in a pattern forming a perfect reproduction of da Vinci's "The Last Supper."