News Post 573

This just in from Rick Copple:
Can you believe it? I’ve written enough short stories and flash fictions over the past five years to fill a full novel-length book! And so what did I do? I made a book, naturally.

Introducing Ethereal Worlds, an anthology of 23 space-opera-style science fiction and fantasy stories written and appearing in magazines between 2006 and 2010. Two of the stories have never appeared anywhere before, and one is set to come out in ResAliens around the beginning of 2011.

More info at http://blog.rlcopple.com/?p=302


Terri Main has created a new webpage for her novel Dark Side of the Moon, complete with a moon map and much more:
http://www.darksideofthemoonnovel.com/

Check out the new Spirit Blade blog from Paeter Frandsen:
http://spiritblade.blogspot.com/

I was looking around for more news items to fill up a post and then I realised there's quite a lot, ahem, about me. Kinda embarrassing, but I'm glad to have my friends at NAF and Splashdown. Yesterday, Diane Graham pulled a sort of virtual "this is your life" on me at http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/a-little-more-grace/, and today brought more of the same plus a review of one of my novels: http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/anvil-review-faith-awakened-by-grace-bridges/ - Both links have two pages to look at AND you have the chance to win a bundle of Splashdown books all at once, so get over there.

The NAFsters didn't stop there, though. Keven Newsome reviewed Alpha Redemption by P.A. Baines at http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/an-unexpected-review/

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 Post 568

Fred Warren has a story published in the new WWC magazine Other Sheep, which definitely looks worth checking out. More details here:
http://frederation.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/story-published-pilgrimage-in-other-sheep/

A.M. Roelke scored an interview about her upcoming release, The Space Station Murders:
http://sameenassphere.wordpress.com/guest-author-blogs/a-m-roelke-2/

Jane Lebak's short space story A Rock for Christmas is now online:
http://bit.ly/glNNM9

Peculiar People are looking for submissions of a very specific nature for their collaborative Orphan Plane project, where children are sent to begin a new life in space. Open till January 9th. Details here:
http://www.peculiarpeoplebooks.com/orphan-plane.htm

The CSFF Blog Tour now has a page on Facebook:
http://on.fb.me/hn3LQv

John Otte discusses the latest movie adaptation of Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
http://leastread.blogspot.com/2010/12/voyage-of-dawn-treader.html

And here's a new review of A Star Curiously Singing by Kerry Nietz:
http://bit.ly/gm4nEa

News Post 563

This week's serials from Laser & Sword:

With Captain Justice in the hospital, Commander Justice, Jr. investigates alone

(http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/the-great-search-part-twelve/) (The Great Search, part Twelve)

The Emerald Avenger starts a fire with the goal of burning out two corrupt police officers

(http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/the-emerald-avenger-vs-the-corruptibles-part-eleven/) (The Emerald Avenger v. the Corruptibles, Part Eleven.)

Snyder meets a racketeer who has an offer for him. (http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/day-of-dread-part-four/) (Day of Dread, Part Four.)

Don't miss the new edition of Residential Aliens, with stories from L. S. King, Gary Raven, Lachlan David, Kurt Hyatt and Walt Staples. Go here: http://www.resaliens.com/

There's a short-form writing contest in several categories going on over at Holy Worlds, and the prizes are five copies of The Skin Map by Stephen Lawhead.

http://www.holyworlds.org/blog/?p=377

Walt Staples has a new story up at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. He claims it's not speculative, but I'm not convinced...

http://www.deadmule.com/fiction/2010/11/walter-staples-sammys-christmas/

A new review of The Word Reclaimed by Steve Rzasa, from Krysti Kercher:

http://krystisbooks.blogspot.com/2010/11/word-reclaimed.html

News Post 562

The first review for Frank Creed's new release, War of Attrition, has been posted at: http://www.amazon.com/War-Attrition-Frank-Creed/dp/1934284068/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290826112&sr=1-3

Karina Fabian talks about her stories in Infinite Space, Infinite God II:

http://fabianspace.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-stories-in-infinite-space-infinite.html
And here's a book review of the same from Fred Warren.

Also: don't miss the video trailer for Karina's other new book, Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8798Iyubocw 

Check out this video interview of Marcher Lord Press author Marc Schooley, hosted by Cathi-Lyn Dyck:
http://scitascienda.com/2010/11/26/marc-schooley-video-interview/

Sarah Sawyer is doing a giveaway of The Charlatan's Boy by Jonathan Rogers.

New approach - lots of news!

Hi guys, and here we are back again by popular request. But it's not going to be the same-old same-old we've had before. I'll be moving back to one post a week with all the news, and hopefully some commentary on it as well rather than just dry links.

Without further ado, here is the amazing new trailer for To Darkness Fled by Jill Williamson - put together by several of her readers and members of the LGG. Well done guys!

Other news this week includes the release of the long-awaited Tales of the Dim Knight by Adam and Andrea Graham. Trust me, you don't want to miss this one. Check out their post on Top 10 Reasons to Love Tales of the Dim Knight. And be aware of the beverage ban, for your own safety!

Also newly appeared lately is War of Attrition by the legendary Frank Creed. This is an amazing book for sure, continuing right on from his award-winning debut Flashpoint. Plenty of heart-pounding action and heartfelt raw emotion in this one. Here's the link to grab it on Amazon.

Facebook News: Both the Lost Genre Guild and Speculative Faith have taken a new run at FB pages this week. The LGG one is here (or use the box at the left of the blog) and the Spec Faith one is here.

Both promise to be useful sources of updates and places to hang out and talk. Be sure you go over and "Like" them both - note that in the case of the LGG, this is a new page because the old one got overrun with spam and we couldn't remember who was the admin!

Diane Graham of the New Authors Fellowship has created an Anvil Review and Interview for Fred Warren, author of The Muse. Comment on either post for a chance to win one of two signed copies.

Bill McGrath announces the release of his novel Eretzel on Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Eretzel-Sword-Fire-ebook/dp/B0046LU8II

Rick Copple got a new review for Transforming Realities: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6040268/transforming_realities_by_r_l_copple.html?cat=38

Sherry Thompson also got a review of Earthbow Vol. 2 at http://vantiltool.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-of-earthbow-volume-2.html by Forrest Schultz.

Guest Post, anyone?

If you'd like to write something for this blog, please get in touch! Make use of our wide readership and get yourself some exposure.

News for August 23rd 2010

Lots of news on Stephen Lawhead today, courtesy of TitleTrakk!
First up a fascinating interview:
http://www.titletrakk.com/author-interviews/stephen-lawhead-interview.htm
followed by a review of his new book The Skin Map:
http://www.titletrakk.com/book-reviews/skin-map-review-lawhead.htm
And his new improved website with lots of interesting tidbits:
http://www.stephenlawhead.com/

A new review of The Word Reclaimed by Steve Rzasa, from reviewer W.H. Hayes:
http://holyspeculation.blogspot.com/2010/08/book-review-word-reclaimed.html

Greg Mitchell interviews Michael Vance about his Weird Horror Tales:
http://thecomingevil.blogspot.com/2010/08/weird-interview-with-michael-vance.html

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 June 11th, 2010

A new story is up at Mindflights: "The Black Bag" by Peter H. Solomon: In a contest with dangerous witches, a little help is always welcome.

Here's Forrest Schultz's review of Earthbow Vol. 1 by Sherry Thompson:
http://vantiltool.blogspot.com/2010/06/review-of-earthbow-volume-i-sequel-to.html

A draw to win a copy of The Superlative Stream by Kerry Nietz is here:
http://susanjreinhardt.blogspot.com/2010/06/on-my-nightstand-superlative-stream-by.html

And while we're at that, here's Ellen Maze's review of Kerry's Book 1, A Star Curiously Singing:
http://amzn.to/bZFnwX

"Dragons and fantasy are hot, hot, hot! We’ll find out about the newest series of books for young readers in this genre." An audio interview with Bryan Davis by Valerie Connelly - http://www.valerieconnelly.com/radio-show/this-weeks-show - Scroll down a little bit to the audio player icon and click the play button.

News for June 9th, 2010

The one year anniversary edition of Digital Dragon Magazine is here! Be sure and check out all the new stories from familiar names. www.digitaldragonmagazine.net

Stephen L. Rice has published two short pieces on the Web: Justice, Waivering, Triumphs; and The Gem in the Locket.
http://www.feedbooks.com/user/87909/profile

Randy Ingermanson interviewed Jim Rubart, author of Rooms, and part one is posted here: http://christianfictiononlinemagazine.com/blitz_marketing.html

Here's a new interview of Sherry Thompson's Seabird, posted by Forrest Schultz:
http://vantiltool.blogspot.com/2010/06/review-of-sherry-thompsons-seabird.html

News for May 14th, 2010

It's that time again - nominations are open for the Clive Staples Award for Christian Speculative Fiction. To read the conditions and judging criteria, and nominate your favourite release of 2009, go here:
http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/clive-staples-award-2010-accepting-nominations/

The latest issue of Ray Gun Revival is out now and awaiting your reading pleasure: 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30956784/Ray-Gun-Revival-magazine-Issue-55#fullscreen:on


The pace is stepping up in "Deactivation" - Part 10 of The Moonborn Code by C.L. Dyck: http://scitascienda.com/2010/05/08/the-moonborn-code-part-10/

Here's a new review at Yellow30 Sci-Fi: Future Imperfect by F.S. Vander Meer http://yellow30scifi.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/future-imperfect/

News for May 10th, 2010

A.P. Fuchs says:  Just a friendly reminder that my free serial novel, Zomtropolis: A Record of Life in a Dead City, has a new installment posted every Friday. It's a story about zombies, a desolate city and that little thing called love.
Go here for the complete Table of Contents and start the book from the beginning: http://apfuchs.wordpress.com/zomtropolis/ Hope you check it out.



Fred Warren says: My short story, "Come You Back to Mandalay," in which a big-game hunter and his loyal retainer pursue a legendary beast in the jungles of Burma, is online now in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Allegory. Check it out! http://www.allegoryezine.com/comeyoubacktomandalay.htm



Here's a new review of Kerry Nietz's A Star Curiously Singing in the Afictionado ezine: http://www.acfw.com/cgi-bin/ezine/may10.pl?record=6


And Lyndon Perry says: Here it is May and I forgot to tell you about April's features:
http://www.resaliens.com/category/volume-4-issue-4/ Check it out this weekend before you go on to May's issue. You'll find 4 short stories and an artist interview. I think you'll like the medieval style artwork of Richard H. Fay, and the entertaining stories of Stoney M. Setzer, Kat Heckenbach, Walt Staples, and George Page. They represent quite a variety of fiction, in fact, from angel visitation to spiritual thriller, theological flash fiction to SF military with a twist of humor. I'll let you figure out which one is which. As always, thanks for reading! Your fellow alien, Lyn Perry

News for April 28th, 2010

The CFBA tour is featuring The Sword by Bryan M. Litfin. Two of the reviews can be found at these links:
Review by Andrea Graham: http://askandrea.adamsweb.us/the-sword-by-bryan-m-litfin/
Review by Becky Miller: http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/cfba-tour-the-sword/
You can look up more linked reviewers at http://www.christianfictionblogalliance.com/.


Kat Heckenbach is in the papers again: check it out at http://brandonnews2.tbo.com/content/2010/apr/21/161420/valrico-mom-pens-inspiration---and-horror/.


Jill Williamson paid a visit to Peg Phifer's blog for Genre Month: http://goaheadandwearthepurple.blogspot.com/2010/04/genre-jill-williamson.html.


And Stuart Stockton has a Facebook fan page you need to be sure and join: http://bit.ly/bPRSDz.

News for April 5th, 2010

There's a new interview with James Rubart at TitleTrakk on the occasion of the release of ROOMS, his unusual supernatural novel set mainly on the Oregon coast.
Check it out here: http://titletrakk.com/author-interviews/james-rubart-interview.htm

Marcher Lord Press is releasing three new novels, and they are all sequels of previously published authors: Jill Williamson, Steve Rzasa, and Kerry Nietz. Go here to check out the best deals: http://www.marcherlordpress.com/New_Store/Bundles_and_Specials.htm

The new issue of The Cross and the Cosmos is now available at http://crossandcosmos.com/ by clicking the image panel to the right of the page. This edition contains stories by Grace Bridges, Frank Luke and KM Wilsher.

Two new reviews of speculative fiction at Afictionado:
Deadlock by Robert Liparulo - http://www.acfw.com/cgi-bin/ezine/apr10.pl?record=7
Powers by John B. Olson - http://www.acfw.com/cgi-bin/ezine/apr10.pl?record=8

News for March 26th, 2010

Read Part 4 of The Moonborn Code by C.L. Dyck here: http://scitascienda.com/2010/03/22/the-moonborn-code-part-4/


The Diplodocus Effect, a new fantasy humour story by Rob Hunter, is now up at Residential Aliens: http://www.resaliens.com/2010/03/the-diplodocus-effect/ - Includes a link to a podcast version read by the author.


The CSFF Blog Tour this month is focusing on Faery Rebels: Spellhunter by R. J. Anderson. Here is the first post by Rebecca LuElla Miller: http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/csff-blog-tour-%E2%80%93-faery-rebels-day-1/
and another by Fred Warren: http://frederation.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/march-csff-blog-tour-day-1-faery-rebels-spellhunter-by-r-j-anderson/
and Amanda Barr: http://christiansciencefiction.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-of-faery-rebels-spell-hunter.html

News for March 22nd, 2010

Maurice Broaddus is celebrating the UK and Australian release of his novel King Makers, and it's already garnering great reviews: here's the first one - http://www.sciencefictionandfantasy.co.uk/king-maker.htm - no doubt the first of many, by the sounds of it.

C.L. Dyck has published Midwife, Part 3 of her online serial The Moonborn Code at  http://scitascienda.com/2010/03/15/the-moonborn-code-part-3/.


Tor.com has an interesting article on the place of religion in science fiction. The perspective is not from inside the church but is definitely worth a read: Religion and Science Fiction: Asking the Right Questions

The Restorer's Journey by Sharon Hinck: new evaluation at Splashdown Reviews http://splashdownreviews.blogspot.com/2010/03/restorers-journey-by-sharon-hinck.html

News for March 17th, 2010

Karina Fabian got a great new review for her book Magic, Mensa & Mayhem at the Midwest Book Review. You can read it here: http://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/mar_10.htm#janie

Members Cathi-Lyn Dyck and Grace Bridges are also members of a group called International Christian Fiction Writers, which operates a group blog.
Cathi-Lyn wrote there recently on What is Literature, with some insights on speculative fiction: http://internationalchristianfictionwriters.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-literature.html
And Grace Bridges republished The Night of the Gift, a short story from a few years ago which is both international and speculative:

Keven Newsome at The New Authors' Fellowship has written two articles useful for writers when planning a novel:
The Hero's Journey http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/the-heros-journey/
and The Villain's Quest http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/the-villains-quest/

Jeremy Robinson has released Part 9 of his free audiobook Beneath. You can catch all the parts so far at http://www.podiobooks.com/title/beneath

News for March 9th, 2010

Kat Heckenbach's short story Jordan's River is now published at Digital Dragon: check it out at http://www.digitaldragonmagazine.net/heckenbach-jordansriver.php

C.L. Dyck has published part 2 of her online serial The Moonborn Code at http://scitascienda.com/2010/03/08/the-moonborn-code-part-2/. If you missed the beginning, you'll want to go back and start here: http://scitascienda.com/2010/03/01/the-moonborn-code/

Two new reviews for Faith Awakened by Grace Bridges - one by Kat Heckenbach at http://kat-findingangel.blogspot.com/2010/03/there-are-some-books-i-read-and-can.html and the other by Fred Warren at http://frederation.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/book-review-faith-awakened-by-grace-bridges/. Thanks guys!

Fred Warren continues his reviewing with a balanced look at the (in)famous Angels and Demons by Dan Brown: http://frederation.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/book-review-angels-and-demons-by-dan-brown/

And a bonus for writers today on a topic in need of a spotlight: Athol Dickson on the poetry of language in his article Forgotten Beauty at Novel Journey - http://noveljourney.blogspot.com/2010/03/forgotten-beauty.html

News for January 6th, 2010

Congratulations to Amy Deardon on winning the 2009 Pluto Award at Yellow30 Sci-Fi with her awesome time-travel novel A Lever Long Enough. Find the news release here.

Kirk Outerbridge is the featured author at ACFW this week. Check out his interview there, where he talks about his cyberthriller Eternity Falls, creativity, faith and more.

Rick Copple has penned Which Way Does Your Action Go, a fabulous article for fiction authors on active vs. passive writing and the was/ing problem. Recommended reading for all wordsmiths!

There's a new review at Yellow30 Sci-Fi for A Difficult Lie by J.H. Mortensen, a novel of alien invasion.

Brandon Barr and Mike Lynch revealed the cover of their new novel American Midnight.

And A.P. Fuchs muses on the similarities - or otherwise - of the present day to the images in Back to the Future II.

Sons of God by Rebecca Ellen Kurtz: Video spotlight

Yahoo News picks up Supernatural Book Giveaway (http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20090826/bs_prweb/prweb2787094)

Sons of God Novel Teaser



Commentary by Rabbi on the N'filim



Video Reviews:





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Rebecca Ellen Kurtz
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