So far, this year is full of significance for me. First, there’s the significance that one of my all-time favorite books, A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was finally released as a live action motion picture, with huge production values and a notable director…and yet somehow flopped at the box office. (<sigh> I happen to think that John Carter is much, much better than the revenue might indicate, but that’s fodder for another essay.) The second significance is that the author of another well-known Martian missive, and another of my all-time favorite books, The Martian Chronicles, recently left …
Fantastic Visions Friday – Michael W. Carroll
Every Friday, Marcher Lord Press salutes a Christian artist who creates amazing speculative worlds. Lovers of Christian speculative fiction do not restrict themselves to the amazing worlds depicted by talented authors. We gravitate as well to those artists who can, through their gifts of vision and art, show us worlds and beings we’ve never imagined. The artist whose gallery is linked to below ushers us to worlds of fantasy, science fiction, and pure speculative wonder. Michael W. Carroll Mike Carroll is an internationally known space and paleontological artist whose art has been featured in Time,National Geographic, and Astronomy magazines and has been aired on Nova, Cosmos, and …
Ten Random Things about John W. Otte
Hey there, everybody. My name is John W. Otte, and I’m one of Marcher Lord Press’s newest authors. I wanted to take an opportunity to introduce myself to all of you. But rather than bore you with dry, biographical data, I thought I’d do something a little different. Here are ten facts about me, the first ten things that pop into my mind: I’m tall and pretty much always have been. I’m 6′ 6″, which means that I’ve been constantly mistaken for someone who likes basketball. Unfortunately, I lack the physical coordination to play any sport worth anything. I love …
Interview with R. E. Bartlett
Here is the next installment of past interviews with Christian speculative authors over at wherethemapends.com. Please Welcome…R. E. Bartlett (*Originally posted November 2008) What a joy to have Christian speculative novelist R. E. Bartlett as our interview guest this month at WhereTheMapEnds.com. R. E. (Ruth) is a New Zealander living in the North Island. She has written many Christian speculative novels, two of which have thus far been published: The Personifid Project (Realms) and The Personifid Invasion (Marcher Lord Press). I’ve had the honor of knowing Ruth since 2004. When I was doing the acquisitions reading for the launch of …
‘Daughter of Light’ reviewed by USAToday’s Happy Ever After
One thing I am learning is that no matter how much you market a book, sometimes your endeavors don’t pan out. And then sometimes God just drops something into your lap. That is what happened with this review by USAToday. All I can say is God did this, not me :). Go ahead, check it out and enjoy! USAToday Happy Ever After Review: “Daughter of Light’ by Morgan L. Busse
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God, the Author of our Lives
Hi, my name is Morgan L. Busse and I am one of the new authors here at Marcher Lord Press. I will be blogging about God, faith, and the speculative here on the new website. This first post I wrote back on January 1st, 2011. Much has happened to me since that day almost two years ago. But one thing has not changed: God is the Author of my life. Here is my post. I have been writing for a couple years now (make that seven this up coming spring). During those years I have wrestled with characters, plots, journeys, …
Interview with Mitchell Bonds
Twice a week, for the next several weeks, the original interviews with Christian speculative authors over at Wherethemapends.com will be reappearing here at the new Marcher Lord website. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Mitchell Bonds (*Originally posted October 2008) What a joy to have Christian speculative novelist Mitchell Bonds as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Mitchell is an irrepressible young man with an impish sense of humor and loads of talent. When I asked him how he’d like to be introduced, this is what he said: I require no introduction. I am the Legendary Mitchell Bonds. Should this not immediately trigger your memory, …
Fantastic Visions Friday – Frank Hettick
Every Friday, Marcher Lord Press salutes a Christian artist who creates amazing speculative worlds. Lovers of Christian speculative fiction do not restrict themselves to the amazing worlds depicted by talented authors. We gravitate as well to those artists who can, through their gifts of vision and art, show us worlds and beings we’ve never imagined. The artist whose gallery is linked to below ushers us to worlds of fantasy, science fiction, and pure speculative wonder. Frank Hettick Frank Hettick, who passed away in 2011, was a gracious friend of Marcher Lord Press (and its predecessor site, WhereTheMapEnds.com). Frank’s space art …
First Blog Post
Since 2007, when we started announcing Marcher Lord Press, and since October of 2008, when we actually released our first books, MLP has been—and remains—the premier publisher of Christian science fiction and fantasy books. In the years since then, the publishing industry has been turned on its head. The givens of the whole industry—the major players, the big bookstores, and even the publishing model itself—have been radically changed. When MLP first launched, our publishing model was considered unusual. I’d tell my professional colleagues what we were planning, and they’d look at me like I’d eaten a funky mushroom. I’d love …