News for April 12th, 2010

There's a new edition of Digital Dragon Magazine up: check out the loooooong list of stories at http://www.digitaldragonmagazine.net/ - and be sure to look at the editorial, http://www.digitaldragonmagazine.net/ambrose-april10letter.php which announces the stories which won the vote to be included in the first Digital Dragon anthology.

Tannia Ortiz-Lopes is featuring author "Compasse" and his end-times novels, billed as an "alternative" to the ubiquitous interpretations of Revelation. You can check that out here with a chance to win some of his work: http://timewithtannia.tripod.com/id6.html

Amy Deardon has posted some very interesting (and mathematical) thoughts on the nature of time, which should prove interesting to readers and writers of time travel stories. http://amydeardon.blogspot.com/2010/04/time-solid.html

Cathi-Lyn Dyck has posted Episode 6 of The Moonborn Code: Baffin Base, at http://scitascienda.com/2010/04/05/the-moonborn-code-part-6/. 

Fred Warren announces yet another story sale :) http://bit.ly/bk3g6c.

News for January 8th, 2010

Amy Deardon, winner of the 2009 Pluto Award, is interviewed at the International Christian Fiction Writers' blog, and talks about her book set in Israel. There's a giveaway if you leave a comment over there before the 16th Jan.

Splashdown Books announces its newest author, Caprice Hokstad, whose two fantasies will be republished with new covers. For more information read this post at Splashdown's blog.

Supernatural author Tosca Lee is interviewed this month at CFOM (this is NOT a permalink but will work for a month, after that check the archives).

Also at CFOM this month is Sarah Salter's review of the movie adaptation for Ted Dekker's Thr3e.

Exciting Online Happenings

Yellow30 Sci Fi has posted its review of A Lever Long Enough by Amy Deardon:

"Amy Deardon has written a truly fantastic debut novel. It is a fast paced, well written and throughly engaging tale. Deardon has paid attention to detail and history, weaving a high energy thriller from the very first page."

Read the whole review at http://yellow30scifithereview.blogspot.com/2009/03/lever-long-enough.html

Deb Kinnard's Angel With A Ray Gun is re-releasing as an e-book - and you can enter to win it! Details at http://justtellthestory.blogspot.com/2009/03/free-books.html

Karyn Knight is starting up an episodic sci-fi series called Nighthawk, due to begin in April. In the meantime, read all about this exciting new Christian space opera here: http://www.nighthawkseries.com.


Karina Fabian says:

I'm the guest at the Writers Chat Room Sunday 7-9 EDT at http://www.writerschatroom.com/Enter.htm. I'll be talking about Magic, Mensa and Mayhem, and Vern the dragon detective will drop by for awhile as well. Hope you can make it!

New poetry at Mindflights Magazine: Knight on the Old North Shore by Mary R. Hawkins ~ She has only been dreaming...hasn't she?

And finally, for a bit of fun, check out The Hero Factory, where you can enter a virtual process to be transformed into a superhero. http://www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory.

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.