“So Bezalel, Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the Lord has given skill and ability to know how to carry out all the work of constructing the sanctuary are to do the work just as the Lord has commanded.” Exodus 36:1 (NIV1984) When I first stumbled across the euphonious names of Bezalel and Oholiab, I felt an instant kinship. I’ve worked in various arts most of my life. I was delighted to see that as early on as the construction of the tabernacle, God valued the talents of artists and craftsmen and gave them a way to use their …
But Who Would Be Dumb Enough To Even Try It? (Episode 03)
At Marcher Lord Press, Saturdays are “Speculative Story Saturdays.” Several Marcher Lord Press authors are playing fiction relay to write this story together. Here is the latest installment. *** An ever-present twilight enveloped the Fortress of Gloom as if even the sun only reluctantly looked upon the blackened stone walls. The great ramparts of Gloom rose from the bedrock of a charred mountain, cursed to let no living plant or creature find sanctuary. Garish gargoyles perched along the grisly battlements, each positioned over a length of chain from which dangled the dead and dying. Be they incompetent slaves or …
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Fantastic Visions Friday – Carmen Keys
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. Carmen Keys Some nice angels and fairy tale illustrations here.
Interview with Randall Ingermanson
Here is another interview brought to you from wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Randall Ingermanson (*Originally posted August 2007) What a joy to have Christian author Randall Ingermanson as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Randy and I have been friends for a number of years. He’s funny, painfully smart, and as whimsical as a child. He’s always laughing and always willing to help someone out. Randy is, I’m sure, the only physicist I know. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley. He is also the author of six Christian novels, each of which has won some sort of award. …
How I became a Marcher Lord Author
Last week I shared how I became a writer. Later that night, after I wrote my post, I received a surprising email. Here is the story… (*I originally posted this on August 6th, 2011) I first heard about Marcher Lord Press through a blog interview a few years ago. By then, I knew enough about the writing industry to know that publishing a Christian fantasy would be difficult. Hardly any Christian publishing companies were taking those kinds of books. They wanted romance, historical, Amish. Not a fantasy set in a different world. Not my kind of book. Then I read …
Interview with Jill Williamson
Time for another interview from wherethemapends.com: Please Welcome…Jill Williamson (*Originally posted May 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelist Jill Williamson as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Jill has a passion to reach teens through ministry and art. Her fantasy novel, By Darkness Hid, was originally conceived as a YA title (i.e., for teen readers), but Jeff convinced her it would work very well for adults too. By Darkness Hid is one of three books that comprise the second release list from Marcher Lord Press. Jill is married to a youth pastor, so she knows …
But Who Would Be Dumb Enough To Even Try It? (Episode 02)
At Marcher Lord Press, Saturdays are “Speculative Story Saturdays.” Several Marcher Lord Press authors are playing fiction relay to write this story together. Here is the latest installment. *** I shouldn’t have gone. I knew that from the start. My masters had always taught me to heed the Flow, to read it, to sink myself into it, and carry me where I needed to go. The Flow guided my hands in a fight. The Flow had kept me alive longer than most in our Guild. The Flow brought Cludge and me together, a fortuitous pairing. I owed my life …
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Fantastic Visions Friday – Sara M. Butcher
Every Friday, Marcher Lord Press salutes a Christian artist who creates wonderful 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. Sara M. Butcher Some delightful illustrations here. Note that Sara appears to be renovating her site. You can find it here, but if that isn’t available, look here.
Interview with Marc Schooley
Here is another interview from over wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Marc Schooley (*Originally posted April 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction author Marc Schooley as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds.com. In his own words, Marc is “the ‘not so much science, fiction writer who generally writes and reads nonfiction, so if I can do it, anyone can’ author of The Dark Man, and a man who values the Bible above all other books, and as the standard by which they all ought to be measured.” Marc is one of three Christian novelists whose books comprise …