News Post 575

At the New Authors' Fellowship, Ren Black has kicked off the Renegade Project, where YOU the reader get to choose how the story goes on. Comment to participate:
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/renegade-project-1/

Brandon Barr gives another sneak peek at his upcoming novel After the Cross:
http://christiansciencefiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/after-cross-sneak-peek-part-2.html

Author C.S. Lakin has a new website:
http://www.cslakin.com/

Robert Treskillard reviews Sword in the Stars by Wayne Thomas Batson:
http://www.epictales.org/blog/robertblog.php/2011/01/01/title-6

Maurice Broaddus gives us the rundown of all his short stories for sale at Angry Robot:
http://mauricebroaddus.com/?p=2611

Janalyn Voigt interviews James Rubart:
http://bookreaderscentral.blogspot.com/2011/01/meet-and-greet-james-l-rubart.html

Marcher Lord Press has acquired Oxygen and The Fifth Man by Randy Ingermanson and John Olson - more at TitleTrakk:
http://titletrakkbooknews.blogspot.com/2011/01/marcher-lord-press-acquires-oxygen.html

News Post 570

News of the day!! Marcher Lord Press is going to reprint Sharon Hinck's Sword of Lyric trilogy: The Restorer and its sequels. With Kathy Tyers already on board at MLP, this is definitely another huge step - congratulations to all concerned!

Jaime Wright interviews Jim Rubart, author of Rooms:
http://thejaimereports.blogspot.com/2010/12/interview-with-james-rubart-author-of.html

The 2010 Pluto Award Winner has been announced:
http://yellow30scifi.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/2010-pluto-award-winner/

A guest post by C.S. Lakin at Speculative Faith, concerning fairy tales:
http://www.speculativefaith.com/2010/12/guest-blog-c-s-lakin-part-3/

A new review of the new edition of Sue Dent's Never Ceese:
http://christianscifiandfantasyreview.webs.com/

News for August 16th 2010

Greg Mitchell gives us his latest news on his upcoming release The Coming Evil, plus an excerpt from his story due to be published in Coach's Midnight Diner Volume 3:
http://thecomingevil.blogspot.com/2010/08/exclusive-excerpt-from-flesh-and-blood.html

Mike Duran gives us an indepth look at Christian Horror contrasted with Atheist Horror:
http://mikeduran.com/?p=9016

C.S. Lakin continues her musings on fantasy, this time on being a mystic:
http://www.gatesofheavenseries.com/blog/2010/08/14/the-wolf-of-tebron-on-being-a-mystic/
She's also been interviewed at Novel Journey:
http://noveljourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/novel-journey-interview-with-susanne.html

And the New Authors Fellowship announces their new member: Avily Jerome.
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/our-newest-member/

News for August 2nd 2010

The new month brings a timely reminder: are you signed up for the Marcher Lord Press and Where The Map Ends newsletters? Click through those links to register.

Splashdown Books would also love too have you on board in its Support Crew at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/splashdown_support_crew/.

All these newsletters keep you up to date on new releases and also often give you the chance to win books or take advantage of special offers or even sneak previews.


Noah Arsenault has interviewed Kerry Nietz, here:
http://noahsreads.blogspot.com/2010/07/kerry-nietz-interview.html

Rick Copple has reviewed The Duke's Handmaid by Caprice Hokstad:
http://blog.rlcopple.com/?p=258

And C.S. Lakin writes about how she got started writing fairy tales:
http://www.gatesofheavenseries.com/blog/2010/08/01/the-wolf-of-tebron-conditional-joy/

News for April 21st, 2010

New fiction at Mindflights: "Tumbling Parasol"  by Stelios Touchtidis - When a disaster thrusts a Chinese astronaut into deep space with a shrinking window for rescue, what chance will he have against the cold equations of expediency and national ambition?

Stuart Stockton wrote a guest post at Peg Phifer's blog for her genre focus month: http://goaheadandwearthepurple.blogspot.com/2010/04/genre-stuart-vaughn-stockton.html

And he wasn't the only one: Here's Fred Warren on fantasy:
http://goaheadandwearthepurple.blogspot.com/2010/04/genre-fred-warren.html


The next instalment of C. L. Dyck's online serial is now up:
The Moonborn Code, Part 7: Agent



C.S. Lakin says: 
Announcing--The Gates of Heaven Series of fairy tales Book One:
The Wolf of Tebron is now available for pre-order by following these links:
Christianbook.com (less expensive and we like to support them!):
http://www.christianbook.com/wolf-tebron-book-gates-heaven-series/c-s-lakin/9780899578880/pd/578880?item_code=WW&netp_id=800671&event=ESRCN&view=details
or Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Tebron-Book1-Gates-Heaven/dp/0899578888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271543007&sr=8-1
Please come check out our new improved site: www.gatesofheavenseries.com
Read the prologue! Comment on the blog! See why fairy tales are powerful and add your thoughts!

News for March 24th, 2010

For a limited time only, Geralyn Beauchamp has made her book Time Masters: The Call available for free on scribd.com. The first half of the book is here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/28130739/Time-Masters-Book-One-The-Call-Part-One and the second half here: http://www.scribd.com/Time-Masters-Book-One-The-Call-Part-Two/d/28130807. This is a great book with a lot of cool concepts and imaginative writing.

C.S. Lakin has unveiled a new website and blog for her upcoming fantasy series The Gates of Heaven, due for release in September. Go here to see the cover and blurb: http://www.gatesofheavenseries.com. On her blog she explains her motivation in writing fantasy: http://www.gatesofheavenseries.com/blog/

For writers - C. Maggie Woychik has posted an article on why some writing is without heart: http://msghomeschoolauthors.blogspot.com/2010/03/case-of-missing-heart-tell-tale-signs.html

The Guardian has a post on choosing names for fantasy stories:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/mar/16/fantasy-character-names

Want to write a superhero story? Here's an extensive list of superpowers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superhuman_features_and_abilities_in_fiction
(thanks to Karina for this tip!)