Christianity Today has announced their book awards for 2013, and their fiction pick is Douglas Wilson’s satiric novel, Evangellyfish.

Wilson says he wants to “intelligent readers” to find his book “funny, dark, and redemptive.”

Joel Miller has a short interview with Wilson on his Patheos blog, in which he asks: “I wonder about the characters’ moral literacy. The cast is primarily Christian but many behave entirely other. How do we land in a world wherein self-gratification seems the highest virtue? And is that our real state of affairs?”

Wilson replies, “Let me start with the last question. No, it is not our real state of affairs across the board, but it is our real state of affairs in certain quadrants of the church. A few years ago, I got a rejection letter for this manuscript because the set-up for the plot was so ‘out there.’ After having received that rejection letter, the Ted Haggard scandal broke, which put my puny efforts into the shade. That made me happy.”