News for September 22nd 2010

Tosca Lee guest blogged at the New Authors' Fellowship, on how she got to being published:
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/special-guest-tosca-lee

P.A. Baines also guest blogged at Inkwell Inspirations on the topic of technology development:
http://inkwellinspirations.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-guest-blogger-author-pa-baines.html

Matt Koceich is a guest blogger at Speculative Faith, talking about House by Dekker and Peretti:
http://www.speculativefaith.com/2010/09/guest-blogger-matt-koceich/

Interview with Jeff Gerke at AuthorCulture:
http://authorculture.blogspot.com/2010/09/interview-with-marcher-lord-press.html 

News for September 20th 2010

Checked out Tosca Lee's guest blog at The New Authors' Fellowship? No? She shared the story of her journey to publication:
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/

This from Mike Lynch:Taylor Kent at Snark Infested Waters was kind enough to interview Brandon and I about the release of our latest novel, American Midnight: 

http://thesnarkyavenger.com/2010/09/15/snark-infested-waters-for-9152009-michael-lynch-and-brandon-barr-authors-of-american-midnight/


Encounter 10: Jeffrey Overstreet on the how of storytelling from International Arts Movement on Vimeo.

A new review of The Word Unleashed by Steve Rzasa, reviewed by Bill Hayes:
http://holyspeculation.blogspot.com/2010/09/book-review-word-unleashed.html

Marc Schooley reviews Alpha Redemption by P.A. Baines: "Move over, Hal...meet Jay."
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/alpha-redemption-winner-review-and-interview/2/

Keven Newsome interviews Jay, the computer from Alpha Redemption:
http://newauthors.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/alpha-redemption-winner-review-and-interview/3/

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 August 30th, 2010

Tosca Lee's "Demon: A Memoir" is now free to download from Lifeway:
http://www.lifewaystores.com/lwstore/tosca_lee.asp

C.L. Dyck gives a very personal reaction to Marc Schooley's "The Dark Man":
http://scitascienda.com/2010/08/30/the-day-marc-schooley-died/

Caprice Hokstad is interviewed at Janalyn Voigt's Book Readers Central, and you have a chance to win a copy of "The Duke's Handmaid":
http://bookreaderscentral.blogspot.com/2010/08/meet-and-greet-monday-caprice-hokstad.html

And on a slight tangent, Mike Duran has a nice rant about so-called "edgy" fiction:
http://mikeduran.com/?p=8680

News for August 6th 2010

Updates from the Laser & Sword serials will now be coming to you regularly here on the LGG blog!

Here's what we had this week:

http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/the-double-cross-part-eighteen/ With Commander Justice disappearing once again, Captain Justice and Commander Justice, Jr. are left to face down the fearsome Human Muscle. (Double Cross, Part Eighteen)

http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/origin-of-the-emerald-avenger-part-sixteen/ :The Emerald Avenger closes in on Night Lord. (Origin of the Emerald Avenger, Part Sixteen.)

http://lasersword.adamsweb.us/countdown-part-five/ Snyder has decoded the Orez game, but how will he get out of the stockade to stop the plot? (Countdown, Part Five.)

R.L. Copple explains for us some of the background of his novels and why there is Hebrew lettering on the cover of Infinite Realities:
http://blog.rlcopple.com/?p=262

Tosca Lee's book Havah: The Story of Eve is now available for free download at B&N, for the next two weeks only. More details here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=fl_86265014251#!/event.php?eid=148908605123440And while we're at it here's an interview with Tosca, and four copies of her books to be given away:
http://www.thechristiancritic.net/2010/08/03/tosca-lee-interview/

Becky Minor offers an excerpt from her story The Sword of the Patron:
http://www.authonomy.com/books/24292/the-sword-of-the-patron/

News for April 26th, 2010

Here's another great interview with James Rubart, author of ROOMS - including his own secret writing room: http://noveljourney.blogspot.com/2010/04/author-interview-jim-rubart.html


Podcast with Marcher Lord Press authors Stuart Stockton and Kerry Nietz, and others: "All about sci-fi" at http://fictionaddict.com/2010/04/19/all-about-sci-fi/

The last three episodes of Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH in audio have been released! Now you can listen to the whole book. Get all the episodes here: http://www.jeremyrobinsononline.com/books/beneath-by-jeremy-robinson.html

Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee have announced their collaboration on a new trilogy called Forbidden, bigger even than the Circle Trilogy. Check out the details here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=386805549854. 

For writers: Max Lucado's thoughts on writing - http://www.maxlucado.com/articles/topical/the_write_stuff.

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.