Please Welcome…Christopher Hopper (*Originally posted December 2007) What a joy to have Christian author Christopher Hopper as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Christopher is the author of two Christian fantasy novels, Rise of the Dibor and The Lion Vrie (both by Tsaba House). He is a youth pastor, blogger, entreprenuer, and musician who loves life and lives it to the fullest (which is, he says, another way of saying he can be a workaholic). He has dedicated himself to preaching the gospel at home and abroad. He says he loves the Lord above all and his wife and children next, with, …
Interview with Wayne Thomas Batson
Please Welcome…Wayne Thomas Batson (*Originally posted November 2007) What a joy to have Christian author Wayne Thomas Batson as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Wayne Thomas Batson is the author of five SpecFic/ Adventure books including the bestselling trilogy, The Door Within, and new pirate novels Isle of Swords and Isle of Fire. He is a lifetime lover of all things fantastic, creepy, and/or peculiar. He says he writes SpecFic because he believes that deep down, we all dream of other worlds and long to do something that matters. Wayne is an active blogger and online advocate of Christian fantasy fiction. …
Interview with Bryan Davis
Please Welcome…Bryan Davis (*Originally posted September 2007) What a joy to have Christian author Bryan Davis as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Bryan Davis is the author of two best-selling fantasy series, Dragons in Our Midst and Oracles of Fire. He has been a full-time author for about four years, following a twenty-year career as a computer professional. Since he and his wife, Susie, have seven children, his stories focus on a ten to sixteen-year-old target audience, but, since the stories have great depth, adults enjoy them, too. Bryan lives in rural Western Tennessee with his wife and his four …
Interview with Alton Gansky
Please Welcome…Alton Gansky (*Originally posted July 2007) What a privilege to have Christian author Alton Gansky as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Alton (“Al” to his friends) is a good friend of mine. His novel, A Ship Possessed, was one of the first Christian speculative novels I read. I was thrilled to find someone who could write cool action adventures with a decidedly speculative edge and yet write from the Christian worldview. I have remained a fan of his writing and am honored to count him (and his wife—hi, Becky!) among my friends. Al is a kind man, a quick wit, a good …
Interview with Austin Boyd
Please Welcome…Austin Boyd (*Originally posted June 2007) What a joy to have Christian author Austin Boyd as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. This is the third in a series of three interviews with up-and-coming authors in Christian speculative fiction. There are many excellent candidates for this category, but I have selected these three because of their outstanding contributions to the fiction we love and because of their interesting stories. Austin is an intriguing guy. He’s a former Navy pilot with 32 years flight experience, a NASA astronaut finalist, the holder of patents for top secret anti-terrorism inventions, a marketing VP for …
Interview with Tosca Lee
Please Welcome…Tosca Lee What a joy to have Christian novelist Tosca Lee as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. This is the second in a series of three interviews with up-and-coming authors in Christian speculative fiction. There are many excellent candidates for this category, but I have selected these three because of their outstanding contributions to the fiction we love and because of their interesting stories. I first encountered Tosca’s writing when I was over the fiction line at Realms. Her manuscript, Demon: A Memoir, was astounding, a tour de force. It’s a brilliant look at mankind, history, and God from the …
Interview with Leathel Grody
Please Welcome…Leathel Grody (*Originally posted April 2007) What a joy to have Christian author and computer game designer Leathel Grody as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. This is the first in a series of three interviews with up-and-coming authors in Christian speculative fiction. There are many excellent candidates for this category, but I have selected these three because of their outstanding contributions to the fiction we love. Leathel is the owner of both the Lethal Publishing Corporation and the Lethal Games Corporation. Through these venues he produces his own Christian science fiction and fantasy products—novels and computer games. You can …
Interview with Steve Laube
Please Welcome…Steve Laube (*Originally posted March 2007) What a joy and honor to have agent and editor Steve Laube as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. If you’ve spent much time at all wading in the waters of Christian speculative fiction you will have heard of Steve Laube. For as long as I’ve been in publishing Steve has been the primary champion of speculative fiction in the CBA. Everyone told me, “If you want to write this kind of fiction, good luck! And you’d better get to know Steve Laube.” Though I’m sure he doesn’t remember it, I first met …
Interview with Jan Dennis
Please Welcome…Jan Dennis (*Originally posted February 2007) What a joy and honor to have editor and agent Jan Dennis as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. You may not know Jan’s name, but you know his work. Ever heard of Frank Peretti? Ted Dekker? Stephen Lawhead? These are all authors Jan “discovered” and published. Back in the day when Crossway Books was putting Christian fiction (of any genre) on the map, it was largely because of Jan Dennis. Jan has a lifelong love for speculative fiction, as you will be able to see below. Currently Jan works as an agent representing …