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/

Press Release: New Edition of Never Ceese by Sue Dent

RIDGELAND, MS, May 07, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Journey Stone Creations, publishers of the hardback edition of Never Ceese, changed directions and dropped their young adult line. All copies of Never Ceese were subsequently sold to a liquidator. With no hope of receiving revenue, Sue Dent did the only thing she could do.

Sue says, "I put a lot of time, money and energy into getting my debut novel out there, money I didn't have. I had to do something to recover." Having initially self-published her paperback, she decided to re-publish it. "I'm hearing reports that the hardback is missing pages and falling apart. Do understand you won't have that problem with the paperback version."

Sue Dent's 2006 Bram Stoker Short-listed paperback edition, ISBN: 9780976994701, is now available through Ingram and also Ingram/Spring Arbor. "I'm excited about Never Ceese making it past the content submittal process Spring Arbor subjects all books to. Now it's officially available to all Christian booksellers and all general market booksellers as well should they choose to carry it and even if they don't want to carry it."

The paperback sports an updated cover to boot. "Hopefully, this will help distinguish it from the hardback," Ms. Dent says. Never Ceese is available wherever books are sold.

S D Enterprises has secured distribution through all the major channels for the paperback edition of Never Ceese. Anyone can order.

Read more Press Releases from Sue Dent:

• Christian Readers Reach for more Vampires and Werewolves: Forever Richard Hits Bookstores January 2009
• Christian Fantasy Just Got Very Interesting. Are You Ready?

Cover Image provided by MatchlessMoments.com
Cover Model is Hanna Hokstad
Cover design: Sue Dent
ISBN: 9780976994701
S D Enterprises
Pages: 264

News for April 27th, 2009

Sue Dent has republished her first book, Never Ceese. The hardback was discontinued by Journey Stone, and the stock sold off to liquidators, so even the few copies left for sale didn't make her any royalties at all. So she redid the cover and re-released it (no changes to inside text) as a self-published paperback. You can buy it direct from Sue on neverceese.com or several online retailers, including Parables, B&N, and Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Never-Ceese-Sue-E-Dent/dp/0976994704/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1 Amazon is showing "out of stock" but it's printed on demand with Lightning Source, so orders should get fulfilled quickly. If you've always wanted to read Never Ceese and Forever Richard together, now you can.


Derek Gilbert says: My new novel, The God Conspiracy, has just been released by PID Publishing. It's a sci fi/conspiracy thriller that fits into the "Laodicea Chronicles" series authored by my wife, Sharon K. Gilbert. (She graciously allowed me to borrow a couple of her characters.)

Synopsis: The deadliest terror attacks in American history are triggered by a mysterious e-mail from "God", and the government blames a fanatical group of apocalyptic Christians. An FBI agent reluctantly teams with a reclusive Internet radio host to expose the plot -- and discovers that he's not wrestling against flesh and blood.

Now available here; click here to view the trailer movie.



Reposted at Splashdown Reviews:
The Duke's Handmaid by Caprice Hokstad

News for April 20th, 2009

Cre8iv is the Arts Show of Aloft Radio featuring interviews with Artists, Producers, Authors, Painters, Film-Makers and much more... If you are a Christian working in the arts, please email to be on a show.


Sci-Fi Authors Mike Lynch & Brandon Barr...
Mike and Brandon talk about their novel 'When The Sky fell' and how Science Fiction can be used as a means of speaking to our society...









Check out this new interview with Stuart Vaughn Stockton, author of the new novel Starfire from Marcher Lord Press. Read all about the creation of an alien language, and much more.









Terri Main says: We will be discussing the Lost Con being planned for Second Life. I got an IM from another SLer who was looking for Christian authors to read at a ministry sim she is involved with. I have invited her to come and share her plans with the group. So next Tuesday April 21 7 pm SLT (which happens to be pacific time) at http://www.tinyurl.com/sllgg
Note: that URL takes you to a SL web page where you can click on a link which reads "Teleport Now". It launches second life and when you log in takes you directly to the location.

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"Dent's Novels have Christian Message" article in the Madison County Herald, April 11, 2009. URL: http://www.mcherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090411/FAITH/904110306/1006

Books you need to check out

Recently a number of new releases have caught my attention - will they catch yours?

Amy Deardon's "A Lever Long Enough"
A small military team travels back in time to film the theft of Jesus' body from the tomb . . .

The Israeli team, led by Benjamin Finan, has exactly seventy-two hours to collect the data. Failure threatens the existence of Israel and may cause the world to slip into all-out war.

Drawn into a web of first century deception and death, the only way to escape is for Benjamin to change the past.

In the present, a traitor determines to sabotage the mission and seize control of the complex housing the time machine. Only Benjamin can reveal him, but he is trapped two thousand years away. Even with a time machine, time is running out.

Never Ceese, the highly acclaimed debut novel by Sue Dent, is now available from The Writers' Café Press. This is a limited edition re-release. You can read some amazing reviews of it here.





And "The Exception" by Jessica Thomas, which is not published yet - but you can read some excerpts of it here. This looks to be a spine-chilling end-times thriller.

Blogs & Reviews

Our thanks to the Writer to Reader blog, who gave us a nice mention in this post recently. Be sure and check out their other posts for lots of Christian fiction news.

Rebecca LuElla Miller wrote a thoughtful article around the question "How Dark is Too Dark?" regarding the portrayal of evil in Christian fiction.

Terri Main wrote about the writer's life and the influence of social networking on this hitherto solitary occupation. Click to read: Writing: A Lonely Life - NOT!!!!

Frank Creed posted a review of Forever Richard by Sue Dent over at A Frank Review: "Sue should be proud of having crafted a fun and entertaining read for all levels of readers that is still fully a horror novel." And staying with Sue Dent, Lena Nelson Dooley interviewed Sue about her new release, Forever Richard. In it she mentions the LGG:
http://lenanelsondooley.blogspot.com/2009/01/author-sue-dent-forever-richard-free.html

And finally, the ShilohWriter blog posted a review of Amy Deardon's upcoming release A Lever Long Enough - "Benjamin Finan heads up a crew of Israeli scientists sent back in time to investigate the resurrection of Christ." Click here to read the full review.

Blogs and Breaking News

We at the LGG are very grateful for the highly successful CSFF blog tour of our Guild last week. For the stats on that, check out Cynthia's post. Shout outs to D.G.D. Davidson for igniting one of the longest blog comment threads ever seen in our realms! Great fun was had by all, as they say.

This week, the Christian Fiction Review Blog is touring Seabird by Sherry Thompson. Check out their page for links to participating bloggers and reviews.


Jeremy Robinson continues to post action-packed video blogs, be sure you haven't missed any.

And Terri Main posted her views on the recently inaugurated Lost Genre Guild discussion forum. Her post is a great introduction to this arena for Guild activity. Why not join in?

Breaking News: Forever Richard by Sue Dent hits stores on January 5th. Forever Richard, Sue Dent's much anticipated vampire & werewolf sequel to Never Ceese, is horror, and like Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula, is written from a subtle Christian wordview. thewriterscafepress.com Autographed copies are available!

Member Interviews

Check out Karina Fabian's interview of Lost Genre Guild founder Frank Creed at Virtual Blog Tour de Net. "...Those lost genres that slip between the cracks are unused tools that could be bringing the Christian worldview to thirsty cultures across western civilization..."

Jake Chism interviews Sue Dent at The Christian Manifesto. Part one is here. "...I never thought I was doing anything evil but I’d no desire to disappoint my elders whose expressions seemed to infer otherwise. So, instead of talking about them, I secretly wrote about my two favorite horror icons..."

How about this one - Carole McDonnell gave an interview last year on the Fantasy Debut blog.

Here also is a somewhat older but no less interesting interview with author Theodore Beale at World Net Daily.

Dragons and Vampires

DragonEye, PI mystery by Karina Fabian, "Christmas Spirits" for sale - A nice little electronic "stocking stuffer" for the fantasy lover on your e-list. Buy it at www.dragoneyepi.net.

Forever Richard by Sue Dent - press release: Christian Readers Reach for more Vampires and Werewolves: Forever Richard Hits Bookstores January 2009

The League of Superheroes by Stephen L. Rice continues its blog tour with new reviews by Melissa Meeks, Karina Fabian, Bill McGrath, and David Brollier.