[AD from SpringBay]

perhaps millions of others put up with the awful writing and the rapture business merely because they were hungry for a Christian world-view novel?

Imagine if there was a GOOD contemporary novel with a conservative message and an understated Christian subtext?

There's some truth to this. But I also think it's a matter of the market. Books get published in the hopes of making money. Poorly written novels get published and people eat them up like the junk candy they are. I'm sure there are many well written, artful, and Christian oriented novels out there. But the market can't find the audience to buy them.

[Travis McGee]

But the market can't find the audience to buy them.

There is a lot to what you say. Writing is only "phase one." Marketing is much harder, and all the effort of writing is wasted if an equal or greater effort, and an equal amount of thought is not put into "phase two."