Great Fiction Distilled Into A Hymn
This Sunday we sang the hymn, “Once To Every Man And Nation“, which was written by James Russel Lowell. As…
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Stephen Lawhead Interview About Magic In Fiction
I found a recent interview with Stephen Lawhead where he discusses his view about magic in fiction.
This is very interesting to me because just the other day I posted about how my King Arthur books will be different from his. One of those points related to the use of magic.
Now, based on what I read in his article, I’m not sure if I was completely fair in my broad brush strokes. Here are a few clarifications:
An Inspiring Story Of Getting Published
In perusing T.L. Hines‘ blog, I came across his post where he shares how he became a published author. He…
Facing Impossible Odds In Christian Speculative Fiction
Nathan Lambes has written an article for Infuze magazine entitled Clawing Up the Mountain: Christian Speculative Fiction. This is a…
Lessons From The Golden Compass
Yesterday I read a critique of Philip Pullman and his book series (the first book of which is The Golden…
Just Joined “High Calling Blogs”
I just joined the “High Calling Blogs” community. The purpose of this group is to raise to the forefront the…
Viral Book Marketing – Part II
One of the thoughts I had concerning what T.L. Hines wrote (see previous post) is that he is really not…
How To Viral Market Your Books
I was reading T.L. Hines’ blog post on viral marketing of books. He has some good advice on how to…
A Book’s Readability vs. Sales
Steven Berlin Johnson wrote an interesting post about the readability of books. He graphed data that came out of Amazon.com’s…
Conquering The Death Crawl
One of the blogs I read daily is Randy Ingermanson’s. He is one of my daily sources of inspiration and…
CSFF Blog Tour Book Hits #1 On Technorati!
I’m new to this whole blog tour thing, but from my check on Technorati, together the Christian Science Fiction &…
King Arthur’s Prophecy
In my first book I have a crazy man make a prophecy to Merlin. This prophecy encompasses the major events…
Making Fiction Seem Old
I encountered a problem while I was writing my latest scene. I had to make a scripture which one of…
Tolkien, Yeats and the Irish Wilderness
My son and I went on a 3 day trip backpacking through the Irish Wilderness and canoeing down the Eleven…