Is there hope for a book about a priest?

I welcome your thoughts. Thank you.

How can he hide his priesthood from others and why would he want to? Without knowing that I can't even begin to think about how you would position such a thing...is it a bildungsroman?

Literary fiction ("lit fic") is generally its own genre. It doesn't need a "young adult" categorization on top of that. Only you can decide whether young adults (those 13-18) would be most interested in the story or whether the voice, etc, are more appealing to adults.

"What happens" isn't a big deal in lit fic. No one is buying lit fic because they're expecting some big plot revelation, they're buying it for the language and the beauty of the story. In genre fiction it's a different matter entirely.

Thank you, Laura.

PS -I noticed that your Cafe Press link isn't working.

Thanks, Mike -- you have to click on the "cranky"--I wish I could make the text itself clickable because I know it's confusing but it's just a WordPress plugin and I don't have the coding chops to fix it :(

Depends on the book. Andrew Greeley, a priest himself, made a fortune writing books about priests. Look at The Cardinal, a best-seller at its time.

>7 leialoha:
Apart from the self-promotion, how does this answer the OP's question?

OP is the Original Poster and your post, since deleted, only discussed your work and didn't address the question in the topic title.

Original Poster? Out of Print?
Where does the question say OP (however the acronym is taken)? Over Production. Oh, Posh! Youʻre making things up? Itʻs o.k. I donʻt see that people stay on course necessarily, perhaps because there is no necessary course or its not mentioned, leave alone defined.

Over. Pronto.

WTF?

I'll say there is a hope for any book; and so, even if it's about a priest, its chance of selling maybe equal to any other book!

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene is a good book and did rather well.

Another example is Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.

I just finished a book by Derwin Mak called "The Moon Under Her Feet" in which the main character is a priest and also a space engineer.

Being a priest is only an occupation, does your character have other things about him that makes him interesting?

What kind of priest?

The Name of the Rose
A Canticle for Leibowitz

>14 bitser:, I read The Power and the Glory this year, it was fantastic.

>20 frahealee:, I think "whining about conscience" is a matter of taste; to me in my old age that's become more interesting than action scenes. This was only my second read of his; my first was A Gun for Sale which was practically a random selection and seemed like a fine introduction. I don't think it matters much with him.