Today we are interviewing Just B. Jordan. Just B. Jordan is the author of Never to Live, the latest release at Marcher Lord Press. Now, onto the interview! Q: What are some of the strongest influences on your writing? Novel wise I would say Ted Dekker and maybe Frank Peretti. I never intended it, but my style ended up being a little different and a little dark, kind of like some of their works. I have been told by several people that my writing almost feels like certain kinds of anime (the good kinds. As with everything, there are a …
February Speculative News
The last Friday of every month MLP will be posting news and links so you can see what your favorite authors are up to. Here is February’s news: ~Fantasy author Morgan L. Busse is a participant in the Leap into Books Blog Hop, a 150+author hop with lots of giveaways. Head on over to her site to find out more and enter for a chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card. ~Nadine Brandes, newest author to join the MLP ranks, is currently blogging about her journey through her first set of edits and what it’s like on this side …
Realm Makers Blog Voyage
Realm Makers 2014 is just around the corner! A fun conference for speculative fiction writers with faith, this conference promises to be an amazing weekend. This year, it’s being held at Villanova University in Pennsylvania on Friday, May 30-Saturday, May 31. Why would a speculative fiction writer want to attend such a unique (and smaller) writer’s conference? Oh, let me count the ways! · Realm Makers has the unique platform of being a conference for Christians. We often feel that we are not weird enough to be in with the general crowd, and not normal enough to be in with …
Zombies, Star Wars, and God
I watched an episode of “The Walking Dead” a couple weeks ago at the suggestion of a friend. “The Walking Dead” is a story centered on a handful of humans trying to survive in a world that has succumb to a disease that turns people into zombies. It’s graphic. It’s gory. And, strangely for me, it was very sad. Half of me was horrified of the zombies. Their decayed bodies, their thirst for living flesh, their pack mentality. The fear that once you are bit, you will become one of them. Yet there was a part of me that felt …
Interview with Nadine Brandes
Welcome! Starting this month Marcher Lord will be resuming its blog with an interview, special feature, or post every Friday. So to kick off our first post, we are interviewing Nadine Brandes, the latest author to join Marcher Lord Press. Nadine Brandes is the author of the yet-to-be released A Time to Die, a dystopian novel. Now onto our interview! Q: Everyone seems to have a “how I got published” story. What is yours? Mine is actually quite a long and detailed story but in a nutshell, I had several successful one-on-one meetings with Jeff Gerke at the Colorado …
Steve Laube Buys Marcher Lord Press
Welcome to 2014. And with 2014 comes a new change to Marcher Lord Press. Steve Laube has officially purchased Marcher Lord Press from Jeff Gerke. There will be a question and answer post on Monday, January 6th on Steve’s own site that we will link when the post is up.The official press is as follows: STEVE LAUBE BUYS MARCHER LORD PRESS (Phoenix, AZ) Steve Laube, president of The Steve Laube Agency, has agreed to purchase Marcher Lord Press, the premier publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy for the Christian market. The sale was finalized on January 1, 2014. Laube has …
Marcher Lord Celebrates Five Years
Today Marcher Lord Press marks five years of excellent, award-winning speculative fiction. Can you believe it? To celebrate, we are doing a couple of things. First, everything on our site is 25% for the entire month of October (excluding Amish Vampires in Space). That means all our fiction, writing books, everything. 25% off.Just use this code when you checkout: MLP5YR. So what book or series have you been holding back on buying? Now is the time to purchase it. Next. Not only is almost everything 25% off, we are giving away the entire Marcher Lord Press library in ebook form …
Daystar wins the Carol Award
Kathy Tyer’s novel Daystar won the Carol Award in the speculative fiction category. The announcement was made during the 2013 AFCW Conference. Congratulations! http://www.acfw.com/carol/2013_carol_award_winners
Three Marcher Lord Authors are Finalists in the Carol Awards
Just in case you missed the news this week, three Marcher Lord authors are finalists for the Carol Awards. Congratulations to Morgan L. Busse and Kathy Tyers who are finalists in the Speculative category and Jill Williamson who is a finalist in the Young Adult category. Way to go, ladies! To find out more, click on the link: Carol Finalists
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