One of the subgenres I chose was Urban Christian Fiction. I get asked for books in this genre occassionally. Good news, I found several blogs covering this genre. Unfortunately, they have not been updated in quite a while - over a year. Several Urban Christian Fiction authors have blogs, but they are mainly to discuss their own books and not the entire genre.
I did find a link that is active http://christianfictionblogalliance.blogspot.com/ It does not appear to cover Urban Christian though.
For this assignment I'm going to go with http://ceceliadowdy.com/blog/. It is a blog by Christian Romance writer Cecelia Dowdy. This is the closest I could find. She looks like she is referring to Christian books other than her own. Dowdy talks a lot about new Christian Romances, but she does list the nominess for the Christy Awards which include a lot of Christian Fiction. I did not see any Urban Christian Fiction in the nominee list.
Three authors that write Urban Christian are: (thank you NoveList)
E.L. Joy
Victoria Christopher Murry
Nikita Lynette Nichols
Urban Christian has a lot of high drama and is character driven, but has a Christian element in it. They usually feature a relationship between two African Americans.
Domestic Fiction seems to be the "mash-up" for this genre. Domestic Fiction tends to be character driven and contains high drama.
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