Quality of LDS fiction low

Your article on March 5 about Anita Stansfield's book being rejected by LDS publishers for "questionable" content only scrapes the surface of a few big problems in the LDS publishing world.

In my opinion, the quality of LDS fiction is low because all LDS publishers will print is material that is fluffy, unrealistic and out of touch with what members of the church really face. As the legacy of high-quality Jewish literature shows, fiction about a religious group needs to be honest and realistic to be truly valuable. Maybe the great Mormon novel has never been written simply because no one in Utah would publish it if it did exist.

Arianne Cope

Garland