The inaugural INSPY Awards--created by bloggers "to discover and highlight the very best in literature that grapples with expressions of the Christian faith"--have just been launched and include the first category devoted to Amish fiction that we've ever seen. Winners are:
General & Literary Fiction: Crossing Oceans by Gina Holmes (Tyndale House)
Creative Nonfiction: Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans (Zondervan)
Historical Fiction: She Walks in Beauty by Siri Mitchell (Bethany House)
Thriller/Suspense/Crime Fiction: The Knight by Steven James (Revell)
Speculative Fiction: Green by Ted Dekker (Thomas Nelson)
Amish Fiction: Plain Paradise by Beth Wiseman (Thomas Nelson)
Romance/Romantic Suspense: Sons of Thunder by Susan May Warren (Summerside)
Young Adult Fiction: Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr (Little, Brown)