Ever since I returned from Moscow, life is a full court press. Mission League field agents are everywhere. All the time. Watching. Waiting for me to fulfill a sixty-year-old prophecy. When some baddies try to guy-nap me, the field agents threaten to move me and Grandma Alice to some random hick town, to give us new fake identities until the prophecy is fulfilled. Not going to happen. I’ve got one chance to stay in Pilot Point. I have to prove to the agents that I can stay safe. Have to make this work. For basketball. For Kip. For Beth. …
Interview with Jack Cavanaugh
Please Welcome…Jack Cavanaugh This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Jack Cavanaugh. In his own words, Jack is a speculative novelist masquerading as a historical fiction novelist. His first love has always been science fiction and fantasy. In fact, in elementary school he cut his reading teeth on Tom Swift books. One memorable summer in junior high was spent reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Martian series. In high school it was Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Heinlein. When Jack first started writing, no one was publishing Christian fiction (yes, he’s that old). Publishers told him that Christian …
Interview with Grace Bridges
Please Welcome…Grace Bridges (*Originally posted February 2010) What an honor to have Christian speculative fiction novelist and publisher Grace Bridges as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds. Grace is dyed-in-the-wool advocate of Christian speculative fiction. She is the author of the science fiction novels Faith Awakened (2007) and Legendary Space Pilgrims (both by Splashdown Books) and the owner of Splashdown Books, an independent publisher of inspirational sci-fi and fantasy. She’s a Kiwi of Irish descent living in beautiful New Zealand. I know, right? In her own words, she is “a chocaholic, a cat-lovin’ Trekkie, a Jesus freak, a bachelorette geek, a …
Interview with Mike Dellosso
Please Welcome…Mike Dellosso (*Originally posted January 2010) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelist Mike Dellosso as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds. Mike is the author of three Christian “chiller” novels: The Hunted, Scream, and Darlington Woods. He writes stories that are suspenseful and scary but pack a spiritual punch as well. He says that, for him, the message is just as important as the story. Mike lives in Hanover, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Jen, and their three daughters. He is a former newspaper correspondent and columnist and has edited and contributed to numerous Christian Web sites. …
Kerry Nietz wins Readers Favorite
Another award to announce! Kerry Nietz won Readers Favorite for 2012. Here are pictures from the awards ceremony. Congrats Kerry!
Steve Rzasa Wins Flash Fiction Contest
Congratulations to MLP Author Steve Rzasa, grand prize winner of HIS Writers 2012 Flash Fiction writing contest for his flash fiction piece In the Bag. To find out more about the contest, click here: www.hiswriters.acfwcolorado.com Congrats Steve!
Bad Boy Characters
I never set out to write a “bad boy” character. In real life, I was not interested in them. I had been taught at an early age to stay away from that kind of guy and diligently did so. They were trouble, and I didn’t want trouble. So how did an assassin not only sneak into my book, but also become one of the focal characters? I’m still not sure. As I wrote Rowen’s story, there was another character standing in the shadows. The first time I met Caleb Tala, he had just murdered a man. Really, Morgan? This was …
Interview with The Miller Brothers
Please Welcome…The Miller Brothers (*Originally posted August 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelists Christopher and Allan Miller as our interview guests this month here at WhereTheMapEnds. (That’s Chris on the left and Allan on the right.) The Miller Brothers always loved creating stories and art. From early childhood, they were working together on one creative project or another. Impacted by the books that surrounded them growing up as sons of Christian bookstore owners, they ultimately pursued degrees in computer animation in order to tell great stories. Their lives would take a different turn as God directed …
Interview with Conlan Brown
Please Welcome…Conlan Brown (*Originally posted July 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelist Conlan Brown as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds. Conlan is an energetic young man who will both talk your ear off and take a bullet for you. I first encountered Conlan at the Colorado Christian Writer’s Conference in 2008. I was teaching the advanced fiction track and I had this very sharp kid in the first row who volunteered for every skit, answer, or writing challenge I threw out to the class. He was outspoken and funny and, frankly, just about …