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 567

Bryan Thomas Schmidt is posting excerpts from his upcoming space opera, The Worker Prince - said to recreate a Star Wars type feel. Here are the first two:
http://bryanthomasschmidt.blogspot.com/2010/09/this-is-first-chapter-of-my-forthcoming.html
http://bryanthomasschmidt.blogspot.com/2010/12/novel-excerpt-worker-prince.html

Millard Jones is giving away a copy of Eternity's Edge by Bryan Davis. Go here to enter:
http://onehundredelectricians.blogspot.com/2010/12/giveaway_07.html

New short stories online:
Spaced Out by R.L. Copple
http://skaggsworld.com/fwg/2010/12/04/spaced-out/
El Nino: A Christmas Mystery with Carolyn Masters, by Terri Main
http://bit.ly/fPWx4Q
The Fairy Princess and the Troll, by Brandon Barr
http://bit.ly/emFdY6

From the Blogosphere:
At Speculative Faith: E. Stephen Burnett shares Lacy's story of how Lord of the Rings opened her spiritual eyes:
http://bit.ly/fBOAq2

P.A. Baines is interviewed by Lena Nelson Dooley, with a chance to win his book:
http://bit.ly/i2PIEm

Kat Heckenbach started a blog series on art she's doing for speculative fiction:
http://bit.ly/geMI35

News for September 17th 2010

Tosca Lee guest blogs at The New Authors' Fellowship, sharing the story of her journey to publication! This Saturday, the 18th.Watch out for that at:
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/

Be sure and check out the new site and very cool book trailer for Stephen Lawhead's new project, Bright Empires - Book 1, The Skin Map.
http://www.thebrightempires.com/

Terri Main describes how she goes about writing a mystery:
http://mizging.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-terri-main.html

Ray Gun Revival ezine is on the move, and just in case their main site at http://raygunrevival.com goes dark, here is where to find them in the meantime - this from Johne Cook:

Where will we find the issues? For now, all issues are up at Scribd, and that will be the default location. I'd also like to host all the issues elsewhere, and I may put them up on my own server.
Where will we find RGR? We're going to be all over the place. While our permanent home in exile is still be wrangled, you can find us in these other places:
SFReader forums: http://forums.sfreader.com/forumdisplay.php/69-Ray-Gun-Revival
RGR In Exile forums: http://loriendil.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=19&start=0
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rgrzine
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ray-Gun-Revival-magazine/125245128369
E-mail: rgrzine@gmail.com
Remember, if you have submissions for RGR 2.0 (wherever we end up) you can start to send in your Subs now to rgrzine@gmail.com with '[sub]' somewhere in the Subject line.

This week's updates from Laser & Sword Ezine:

http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/the-great-search-part-two/ Small Packages observes heroes falling in crazy in love while others just go plain crazy. (The Great Search, Part Two)

http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/the-emerald-avenger-v-the-corruptibles-part-one/  Marco tries to solve the problem of the Emerald Avenger with his usual method. (The Emerald Avenger v. the Corruptibles, Part One)

http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/countdown-part-eleven/ Snyder and Dread meet the woman who plans to depopulate Earth. (Countdown, Part Eleven.)

News for September 1st 2010

Terri Main is featured in her local paper to talk about her upcoming novel Dark Side of the Moon:
http://reedleyexponent.com/articles/2010/08/25/community/doc4c75a0e0ac8e8924944140.txt

Steve Rzasa is up this week at Operation Encourage an Author - and you can win a copy of The Word Reclaimed. BUT there has to be 20 encouraging comments for the giveaway to kick in, so head on over!
http://encourageanauthor.blogspot.com/2010/08/author-spotlight-steve-rzasa.html

Sarah Sawyer begins an in-depth look at the origins of The Beauty and the Beast fairytale:
http://bit.ly/aymgLT

Fred Warren is interviewed at WhereTheMapEnds.com:
http://www.wherethemapends.com/Interviews/current_interview.htm

And P.A. Baines is interviewed at Scita > Scienda in connection with today's release of his debut novel, Alpha Redemption:
http://scitascienda.com/2010/09/01/interview-p-a-baines-part-1

News for July 16th 2010

Interview with A.P. Fuchs at the Black Glove: Horror Culture and Entertainment Magazine - http://bit.ly/9lb0TN

From NovelTeen: JULY IS READ CHRISTIAN SPEC FICTION MONTH : http://wp.me/phFfA-Ad

A new short story from Kat Heckenbach in the horror genre:  http://flashesinthedark.com/2010/07/12/frog-face-by-kat-heckenbach/

Interview with Terri Main at One Writer's Journey: http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.blogspot.com/2010/07/interview-with-author-terri-main.html


New at Mindflights - Holy Cats by Kersley Fitzgerald: http://www.mindflights.com/item.php?sub_id=6553

June 18th News - Terri Main, Jeff Gerke, MLP

Terri Main says: Come meet Carolyn Masters, the main character from Dark Side of the Moon, my new novel coming out in Feb 2011. We catch up with Carolyn as she is giving a lecture at the FBI academy in Quantico about Criminal Investigations in Off-World Cultures.
http://museituppublishing.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-investigation-in-off-world.html

This from Jeff Gerke: Be in a Marcher Lord Press novel! Here's your chance to have your name listed in one of the upcoming releases from Marcher Lord Press. Take time on the Fourth of July to stop by our store at http://www.marcherlordpress.com/New_Store/Fiction.htm and buy any of our 12 great fiction titles to have your name entered in the contest. We will randomly select three people whose names will appear in the upcoming new novels by Kirk Outerbridge, Marc Schooley, and the winner of our Marcher Lord Select competition, Matt Koceich.
 
Imagine, your name in a Marcher Lord Press novel!
 
Even if you're not one of the chosen three, everyone who buys an MLP book will receive a free short story by author Steve Rzasa called "Hunting Souls." It takes place in the same universe as his space opera novels The Word Reclaimed and The Word Unleashed, and follows the exploits of an unlikely hero -- one of the secret police who track down Christians.
So remember, go to http://www.marcherlordpress.com/New_Store/Fiction.htm on July 4, 2010 and enter your chance to become part of Marcher Lord Press history!

News for May 19th, 2010

Terri Main says: You can check out the cover for Dark Side of the Moon at
http://www.facebook.com/darksidenovel . It looks great and is pretty close to my vision of the main characters.
Also from Terri: I just posted a new Carolyn Masters flash fiction story on Scribd at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/31426203/Fireworks
Hope you enjoy it. BTW, my scribd profile is at http://www.scribd.com/terrimain if you would like to subscribe. I will be posting various bits of flash fiction from time to time. They are free to download and distribute with attribution non commercially.



This week sees the CSFF blog tour for Jill Williamson's By Darkness Hid. Be sure and check out all the links from http://rebeccaluellamiller.wordpress.com/


Jeremy Robinson is going to be blogging regularly at Think Hero. His first post on breaking into Hollywood via novel writing is here:
http://www.thinkhero.com/2010/05/14/how-to-break-in-to-hollywood

News for May 5th, 2010

The Christy Nominees list has been published! The Visionary category nominees are listed as follows:

• By Darkness Hid by Jill Williamson • Marcher Lord Press
• The Enclave by Karen Hancock • Bethany House Publishers
• Valley of the Shadow by Tom Pawlik • Tyndale House Publishers

Carole McDonnell is featured in two special sessions of the online CoyoteCon Digital Author Conference which is running throughout May. One is on May 15th: The Speculative Christian. To attend, you need to register for a free session ticket. Numbers are limited. Go to http://coyotecon.com/tickets/ to book in.

Terri Main, author of the forthcoming mystery/science-fiction cozy Dark Side of the Moon, is running a contest on her Facebook fan page. In the novel, set on the moon at the end of the 21^st century, lunar residents live in underground communities which look like small towns. The main character of the book, Carolyn Masters, a professor of history at the local university, has a new house. The house is automated with an artificial intelligence unit to manage the household chores, programmed to work best if it has a name. Go to http://www.facebook.com/darksidenovel . There is a status post where you can add a comment that includes your name for the house.

News for April 16th, 2010

Johne Cook says: The esteemed writing site, AuthorCulture, has had a lapse in judgment and has asked me to join their team posting periodic items on the writing blog. Their charter is 'inspiring, enlightening, and uniting writers and readers.' Today is my first post, and they asked me to say howdy. So allow myself to, uh...Well, you know.
http://authorculture.blogspot.com/2010/04/introducing-ac-s-newest-partner.html

This from Terri Main:
Dark Side of the Moon, a cozy mystery set in a lunar colony at the end of the 21st century, has been contracted by MuseItUp Publishing. (http://museituppublishing.com/)  According to author Terri Main, the story centers around Carolyn Masters, a history professor and former FBI profiler, who takes a job at Armstrong University on the moon. She is just getting used to 1/6 G when a colleague Juan McAlister, Astromechanics professor and leader in the Lunar Independence Movement, is murders. Together with a retired homicide detective, Carolyn must use her profiling skills to solve the murder, stop a terrorist plot, exorcise her own demons, and maybe find romance at middle age.
"I love science fiction and I love cozies, so it was fun bringing the two of my favorite genres together," said Main. "I am also excited in that Carolyn is an openly Christian character in what is an essentially secular story and this novel was picked up by a secular publisher."

And this from Jill Williamson on To Darkness Fled:

After a long year of writing and writing and writing… the second book in my Blood of Kings trilogy is now up for sale! Thanks so much to everyone who supported me by praying, or reading my first book, or telling people about it. I had no idea when I started writing just how much hard work was involved in all this. Regardless, it has been a fun and rewarding experience.

Buy a copy from Amazon.com   Buy an autographed copy from my website (Pay with Paypal)

Buy from the Marcher Lord Press Store   Buy for your Amazon Kindle or iPhone, or download Kindle for the PC program (free from Amazon.com) and read the Kindle book on your computer

Or special order the through your local Barnes and Noble.

Jeremy Robinson announces the release of Instinct at http://www.jeremyrobinsononline.com/2010/04/instinct-arrives-today.html. He has also given an interview at Geekscribe: http://www.geekscribe.com/2010/04/12/6484/

News for April 14th, 2010

Terri Main has a Facebook fan page for her unpublished novel "Dark Side of the Moon", a sci-fi mystery. You can read samples and discuss relevant issues at http://tinyurl.com/yljdapu.

Guild member KM Wilsher has been interviewed by Lynn Rush here: http://lynnrush.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/km-wilsher/

Rick Copple keeps on writing: His story "Spacy Date" has been accepted by Digital Dragon Magazine. Go Rick!

Ellen C. Maze says: 

RABBIT: CHASING BETH RIDER is available for FREE at this site. It is the first 176 pages of the book (that's 1/2 of the book) and it will give you who haven't' bought it yet a chance to see if you'll like it.
Plus this technology is really cool. You 'turn the pages' with the cursor. It's just neat.
AUTHOR FRIENDS-- check out this Hosting program. It is FREE to post your book and my listing generated immediate sales! I was in shock!
Click the link and get to reading. Please go look even if you don't read it--the page counts visits! Click BECOME A FAN and leave a comment if you can! Thank you so much for your support!
http://www.freado.com/book/6754/rabbit-chasing-beth-riderPlease

News for February 8th, 2009: Maurice Broaddus, Leaps of Faith, Terri Main

Maurice Broaddus has posted a blog for writers: On World Building

At the Lina Lamont Fan Club there is an article called Why McCoy Hates the Transporter, and it's related to Quantum Express, a story by Vincent Malzahn in Leaps of Faith, the sci-fi anthology edited by Karina and Rob Fabian.

Terri Main says she's just uploaded another audio installment of Dark Side of the Moon. This is chapter four. It's at http://www.wayfarersjournal.com/darkside4.mp3

News for January 29th, 2010: Kat Heckenbach, Terri Main, and New Talent Colin Moore

Terri Main has posted the third chapter of the audio version of her book Dark Side of the Moon, here: http://www.wayfarersjournal.com/darkside3.mp3

The New Authors Fellowship is featuring a peek at Colin Moore's unpublished novel System City, which was a participant in the Marcher Lord Select contest. Check it out here:
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/new-author-series-system-city/ The novel also has a fan group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/System-City/238962417452

Kat Heckenbach is featured in the South Shore News & Tribune, which reports on her upcoming event teaching at a writers' group in Riverview, Florida. Check it out: http://bit.ly/dcMjUn

News for January 25th, 2010: Terri Main, Brandon Barr, Marcher Lord Select

Terri Main says: I just finished recording and posting the second chapter of my science fiction mystery Dark Side of the Moon at
http://www.wayfarersjournal.com/darkside2.mp3
I hope you enjoy it. I will eventually be setting up blog entries for each chapter for conversation and feedback. I am licensing these under Creative Commons licenses allowing for the noncommerical reproduction and distribution of these with proper attribution.

Brandon Barr says: "At the End of the Time Jump" is a short story I wrote back in 2005, and to my delight, it's now out in AUDIO form!
All the details are at Brandon's blog here.

The Authorculture blog has an interview with Dennis Brooke, whose novel The Last Apostle won third place in the recent Marcher Lord Select contest. Click here to read the interview.

News for January 13th, 2010

Terri Main says: I just uploaded an MP3 file in which I read the preface and first chapter of Dark Side of the Moon, a novel I have been working on for two years. I had fun cutting this file. It took me back to my days in radio. Hope you enjoy it, and if you do, I hope you pass the link along to your friends, I'll also post a note as new files are posted.

Here's the link:
http://www.wayfarersjournal.com/darkside.mp3

Fred Warren says: My first new story of 2010 is online now at Every Day Fiction. It's called "Half," a lighthearted bit of fantasy about two mercenaries pondering the contents of a wizard's cask–and whether they should partake. Here's hoping it gives you a chuckle. Cheers!
http://www.everydayfiction.com/half-by-fred-warren/

At TitleTrakk, there's a new review of Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo, #5 of the Dreamhouse Kings series. Reviewed by Jennifer Bogart.

News for August 28th, 2009

Kat Heckenbach says: My horror story "Willing Blood" can be found in the August issue of The Absent Willow Review. Check it out here: http://absentwillowreview.com/archives/willing-blood


Rebecca Ellen Kurtz says: Sons of God made Yahoo News!!!! I love book giveaways! They are awesome!

Check it out: http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20090826/bs_prweb/prweb2787094

To enter yourself go to www.rebeccaellenkurtz.com/blog/

And for writers, Terri Main found this resource:
This is kind of fun. It's a "random" character generator. You go through the charts and throw dice for the choices in each category. Of course, you can also make the choices consciously as well. At any rate it's an interesting way to look at characters.
http://www.droppin-the-fork.com/fantasygen.htm

News for July 6th, 2009

Terri Main says: Tuesday July 7th at 7 pm (PST) we will be meeting in Second Life. The location for the meeting can be found at http://www.tinyurl. com/sllgg
Second Life is a virtual world. You will need to download software and select an avatar in order to take part in the dicussion featuring both voice and text-base chats.
The meeting will run from 7 - 8 pm.

Fred Warren wrote a new review of Leaps of Faith, the sci-fi anthology edited by Karina and Robert Fabian: http://frederation.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/book-review-leaps-of-faith-edited-by-robert-and-karina-fabian/

Bryan Polivka says: Ahoy from the land of mythical beasts, mysterious beauty, and the odd miracle now and again... Nearing Vast has seen some miracles, large and small. Here's a truly odd one. Smith Delaney, one of our favorite pirates and a most thoughtful ponderer, has turned up on Twitter. You can follow his musings from his post on his pond (he calls these musings "posts" for the obvious reason). Look him up at www.twitter.com/SmithDelaney.

News for May 22nd, 2009

Check out this new interview with Stuart Stockton at http://lenanelsondooley.blogspot.com/2009/05/stuart-vaughn-stockton-starfire-free.html
Comment on the post for a chance to win a free copy of Starfire!

Mark your calendars: May 26th at 7pm PST in Second Life! Click here to teleport. This time we will be discussing LostCon, an in-world Christian Spec Fiction Convention. Join Terri Main and the Virtual LGG for some fellowship!

News for April 29th, 2009

The Christian Fiction Review has a new post on Starfire by Stuart Stockton: "Prepare for one of the geekiest book reviews this site has ever seen."

The Woman Behind The Dragon - Terri Main interviews Karina Fabian at Wayfarer's Journal! And here's Terri's review of Magic, Mensa & Mayhem. Don't read it in a library!

The CSFF tour buzz around Blaggard's Moon by George Bryan Polivka continues to develop: Check out Rebecca LuElla Miller Blog Tour Wrap-Up. There's also a very good discussion still ongoing about what makes for a hero in Christian literature. Feel free to participate! Blaggards or Heroes?

Reposted at Splashdown Reviews:
Leaps of Faith, edited by Karina & Robert Fabian

And Sherry Thompson of the Guild wants your help in deciding whether to put a new cover on her novel Seabird.

Original Cover:


Proposed new cover:

To join in the discussion, you can go to Sherry's blog; alternatively, use the Gryphonwood forum (signup required). So what do you think?

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

Publishing News

Scott M. Sandridge announces the kickoff for the podcast production of The Silverblade Prophecy - you can listen to two parts of it already:
The Silverblade Prophecy Episode 1 - Martin and Yavar Thain seek to free themselves from slavery in Vangaard. But what price are they willing to pay?
The Silverblade Prophecy Episode 2 - Three years after winning her freedom in Vangaard’s gladiatorial arena, Yavar is now married to her former slavemaster, Warlord Vrang, the very warlord she gave an oath to one day slay. When her brother is captured by her husband’s soldiers, she and Martin must once again find a way to free themselves.
Written, produced, and narrated by Scott M. Sandridge.





This week Splashdown Books has opened its doors. The new venture will be publishing science fiction and fantasy and also showcasing Lost Genre titles from other publishers. Check out the Splashdown Intro, the publisher and author blog, the Splashdown Reviews site, the Lost Genre Library, and the author acceptance guidelines.

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UPDATE from Terri Main:

Even as Christian fantasy is slowly gaining ground among mainstream Christian publishers, science fiction continues to languish. Many reasons have been proposed. Some suggest that extreme beliefs about the end times discourages speculation about the future. Others point to the antagonism between scientific and religious establishments. For whatever reason, Christian science fiction has yet to catch hold in Christian publishing.

Tuesday February 24 at 7 pm (PST) we will be meeting in Second Life to discuss the place of Christian science fiction in the religious literary scene. The location for the meeting can be found at

http://www.tinyurl.com/sllgg

Second Life is a virtual world. You will need to download software and select an avatar in order to take part in the dicussion featuring both voice and text-based chats.

The meeting will run from 7 - 8 pm. Afterward will be a social time.