News for June 4th, 2010

A Flame in the Dark, a web zine "dedicated to publishing and promoting good Christian horror, thriller and suspense fiction," launched June 2. Kat Heckenbach's poem, Serpent Uncoiled, is the first featured piece.

An article by Robert Liparulo is on Novel Journey called 5 Elements that Make Fantasy Fiction Feel Real http://bit.ly/11sMqe

The final list of nominees for the Clive Staples award has been posted. This year, to vote you have to have read at least two of the titles. So check it out and make sure you qualify when the time comes. http://bit.ly/cZ97Ib

News for March 29th, 2010

Karina Fabian has published the March edition of A Dragon's Eye View: find out what Vern is up to! http://www.myebook.com/ebook_viewer.php?ebookId=31006


There's a new poem up at Mindflights: Dragon's Dreaming by Michael R. Fosburg at http://www.mindflights.com/item.php?sub_id=6543

Brandon Barr has posted an update and the prologue of his current work in progress at http://christiansciencefiction.blogspot.com/2010/03/prologue-of-my-newest-work-in-progress.html


Greg Mitchell has posted links to three interviews about his book The Coming Evil: The Strange Man, due out next year from Realms: http://thecomingevil.blogspot.com/2010/03/trilogy-of-interviews.html

News for September 7th, 2009

Tony Lavoie says: I have a short story up this month at Digital Dragon Magazine (http://digitaldragonmagazine.net). It's a bit of a departure from my normal pieces. I wrote it as a story/poem, in the alliterative style of Beowulf and other epics. A lot of fun to write, not to mention a lot of pain, even for a mere 1500 words--I've never before had to work within such rigid rules (which I admit I did break frequently) for so long. Going through the process gave me new appreciation for what writers who choose the poetic formats as their venue of choice must regularly go through. :) Anyway, think "Beowulf" meets "Alien". While folks are there, I also highly recommend Becky Minor's "Windrider" serial. They'll have to go back to last month to catch the first installment, but it's really good stuff, with dragons in. :)

At Speculative Faith, Rebecca LuElla Miller has written an intriguing piece about what C.S. Lewis really intended the Narnia stories to be. Read "C.S. Lewis and Sub-creation" here.

New posts at Splashdown Reviews by Grace Bridges:

The Silver Hand by Stephen Lawhead

The Endless Knot by Stephen Lawhead

Starfire by Stuart Vaughn Stockton

By Darkness Hid by Jill Williamson

The Battle for Vast Dominion by George Bryan Polivka

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.

Sci-Fi Controversies: Join the discussion

Christianity Today magazine recently published an article entitled "Sci-Fi's Brave New World" examining some aspects of Christian interaction with sci-fi concepts. The article has caused a great deal of discussion, both publicly in the article's comments and privately in the Lost Genre Guild newsgroup. Stuart Stockton and Rebecca Miller have also posted commentaries on the Speculative Faith blog. Please join in the discussions there!

Mindflights magazine has published a new sci-fi poem by Joshua Gage here.