My title isn't very noteworthy, but it is just what I've been troubled over today. I have a friend who is a writer. We've had several conversations over the past year about writing and what publishers are really like. She explained to me that publishers are looking for the next "Karen Kingsbury" or "Max Lucado". They're goal is profit ultimately. If you examine most Christian publishers, they are actually no longer independent publishers. Rather, they are owned by secular publishing houses. Knowing this information grieves me. I wrote earlier this year that I was encouraged to see that the not for profit publishing houses publish many solid books that have encouraged me. I've seen a qualitative difference between what they publish over the past 3 years. But, today my faith in publishing took a big hit. I realized that basically the only way an author can get published if she "knows" someone. That someone is often a paren...