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New Excalibur Design!

I have finally finished my design for Excalibur! Up to this point, I have been using for Excalibur a modified…

Using A Writing Log To Motivate

Randy Ingermanson asked his blog readers, “What Action Will You Take Today?” In asking this he is trying to spur…

How To Design A Book Series

After reading about the theory that Michael Ward has carefully put together (regarding how C.S. Lewis planned out his Chronicles…

C.S. Lewis’ Secret Plan For Narnia

I ran across a fantastic article about the secret & cryptic planning that C.S. Lewis did that undergirds the entire…

My First Chapter Now In PDF Format

If you go to my sample chapter post, you now have the option of downloading it in PDF format. This…

Alternate Ending For My King Arthur Book!

Just last night my daughter gave me an alternative ending for my book. I already had one plotted out, but…

Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 3

Paul on ChristianWriters.com asked me a question about my THIRST™ graphs. Here is his question as well as my answer.…

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:

King Arthur – My Odds Just Got Worse!!

Here I just posted about how difficult the odds are to get published in the Christian speculative fiction genre, and now my own personal odds just got worse!

I even knew it was going to happen. I just didn’t think it would be this soon. Once Stephen Lawhead started re-releasing his older books (Song of Albion and the Dragon King series) I knew it was bound to happen. It turns out that he was just notified that HarperCollins is going to “re-release the entire Pendragon Cycle in a new edition with new covers sometime in the next year”.

What does this mean for me? I’m not sure, really. Here I am writing a series of books based on the King Arthur myths, and one of my inspirations is being re-released probably around the time that my first book will be sent to literary agents! This probably makes it much harder for an agent to seriously consider my work at this time.

However … there is the flip side that the added publicity could make it easier. Obviously this topic sells. Obviously there is public interest. Obviously there will be some buzz. “Hey, have you read Lawhead? Robert Treskillard has a book on King Arthur too…”