First Amish Romance, now angels. Publishers Weekly says that this fall, publishers are introducing more than a dozen titles about angels:

… good ones, funny ones and especially fallen ones, kicked out of heaven. “We’ve kind of exhausted where we can go with vampires,” said Heather Doss, children’s merchandise manager for Bookazine. “Now we’re taking the safe characters and making them the bad guys. We’re turning that stereotypical angel image upside down.”

Sounds like the books range from your typical guardian angel story to comedic stories about angels to the angel-as-romantic-lead. Apparently, angels, especially the fallen kind, “are the new hotties. Like modern vampires, they can be gorgeous, immortal and otherworldly heartthrobs, unlike, say, zombies.”

I don’t know about this last idea. First of all, fallen angels are demons, according to the Bible, so it’s kind of weird they are playing with angels and ignoring that part of their make-up. Secondly, unlike vampires, a lot of people sincerely believe in angels and see them as religious icons, so this idea could backfire on publishers.

On the other hand, remember that TV show where that Irish lady was an angel? And there was a black lady who was also an angel? And for some reason they both helped people, maybe because they were friends? It was on the Family Channel or something. Anyway, people seemed to really like it, so maybe this trend will be like that.