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LDS fiction (or Mormon fiction) is a rapidly growing niche market of fiction novels featuring themes related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, see also " Mormon"). Virtually nonexistent 25 years ago, the meteoric rise of LDS fiction is often attributed to Gerald Lund 's popular LDS historical fiction series the Work and the Glory . LDS fiction now accounts for more than half the sales of some Latter-day Saint book publishers. Growth in LDS fiction sales show no sign of slowing in spite of critics.1 History of LDS fiction
Many LDS writers have been noted for genre fiction, but few novels dealt explicitly with Mormon issues until recently. Prior to 1979, LDS publishers didn't print novels, and concentrated mostly on non-fiction like faith-promoting stories, biographies, songbooks, doctrinal discourses, and other materials. In that year, LDS Church-owned Deseret Book published its first novel, possibly the first-ever LDS novel, Under the Same Stars by Dean Hughs.
However, LDS fiction remained obscure until after 1990 when Gerald Lund released the first Work and the Glory book. This book became a series chronicling the lives of the fictional Benjamin Steed family. Sales for LDS fiction remained stagnant though, and publishers were still cynical about the potential market. This changed in the early 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn as sales of Lund's subsequent installments snowballed and other early LDS fiction series like Chris Heimerdinger's Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites took off.
Additional LDS historical fiction series were written, but new trends and sub- genreThe term genre refers to the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. Genre" is originally a French word meaning "kind", "sort" or "type"; in grammatical terminolos emerged. Many new works are not serialThis article is about serials in fiction . You might want, instead: Serial communications for information about computer communication technologies that use a single stream of data; Serialism (music) or Cliffhanger ( plot device). Serial in fiction is a t, or at least can be read intelligibly from any given novel. MysteriesMystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). It is similar to the whodunit in that the clues may often be given to the reader by subtle and romanceRomantic fiction is one of the oldest genres in literature, with a history that goes back at least to the medieval concept of courtly love, the "cult of the Virgin Mary" and beyond. In this context, the term, "romance", which originally referred to any kis now complement novels like Lund's whose books instill a sense of heritage and reverence for historical Latter-day SaintA Latter-day Saint is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and should not to be confused with the different but misleadingly similar term " Latter Day Saint. The term "Latter-day Saint", as spelled with a hyphen and as. Newer LDS fiction tends to be lighter and less likely to contain overtly religious morals in their plots. Instead, stories aimed at entertainment are woven on an LDS backdrop. Since 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, LDS fiction sales have risen dramatically. At least one LDS publisher, Covenant Communications, claims fiction now accounts for more than half of their sales.
Recently, LDS fiction has cross-pollinated into another new LDS cultural trend, Mormon cinema. Charly, released in 2002, is based on a novel by LDS fiction author Jack Weyland. Other planned adaptations include a movie based on the Work and the Glory.
