Please Welcome…Ellen Maze (*Originally posted July 2010) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Ellen Maze. Ellen has been writing since she could form sentences. Her earliest works are tucked away safely in her mother’s files, but now, her current work is published for the world to see. Her subjects range from vampires to angels to demonic powers in dark places; but her goal is to entertain the reader while sending a message of redemption that is never preachy but is disguised between the lines; like a wonderful mystery to be unfolded by whosoever will. Pitching faith …
Interview with Merrie Destefano
Please Welcome…Merrie Destefano (*Originally posted June 2010) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Merrie Destefano. Currently a full-time novelist under contract with Eos/HarperCollins, Merrie Destefano’s first novel, Afterlife: The Resurrection Chronicles, is scheduled to release in October, 2010. She also co-authored two art books this year with artist, Michael Butkus: How To Draw Zombies and How To Draw Vampires from Walter Foster Publishing. In a previous life, she was the editor of Victorian Homes magazine, founding editor of Cottages & Bungalows magazine, and contributing editor of Romantic Homes magazine, and as such, she wrote for a …
Interview with Rachel Marks
Please Welcome…Rachel Marks (*Originally posted May 2010) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Rachel Marks. Rachel Marks (a.k.a. Pixydust to all her author and artist friends) is the mother of four wonderful children, wife to, in her words, “the most amazing guy on the planet,” and she is also a recent cancer survivor. She’s a youth leader with her husband, but finds the kids teach her more than she can teach them. Being a native SoCal girl, she grew up at the beach playing in tide pools and reveling in the ocean—she even fancied herself a …
Interview with Tom Pawlik
Please Welcome…Tom Pawlik (*Originally posted April 2010) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Tom Pawlik. Tom is a highly imaginative Christy-Award-winning author of two novels but has great hopes of writing countless others. His first novel, Vanish won the Operation First Novel Contest sponsored by the Christian Writers Guild and Tyndale House Publishers. Released in June 2008, Vanish went on to win a Christy Award in the Visionary category. His follow up sequel, Valley of the Shadow was released in June of 2009 Tom’s fascination with the weird, the creepy, and the unknown began at a …
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. …
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 …