Please Welcome…Bill Myers (*Originally posted March 2008) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Bill Myers! Bill writes all kinds of cool and creepy Christian speculative fiction, but I first heard his name in connection with a TV program. Back in the days before Veggie Tales there was precious little Christian film or video entertainment worth watching. It was truly atrocious. But then I stumbled across this series called McGee & Me about this normal kid and his animated friend (who got him in and out of all kinds of trouble). The animation was great and, more …
Interview with Robin Parrish
Please Welcome…Robin Parrish (*Originally posted February 2008) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Robin Parrish! I first heard Robin’s name in connection with his hip and influential e-zine INFUZE. I could tell from his editorials and the content on the site that he was a kindred spirit. Indeed, when he reviewed WhereTheMapEnds in 2007 he said it was an idea he wished he’d come up with himself. (Note that as of this writing INFUZE is in danger of folding. Consider going to the site to see whether or not you might be able to be a …
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 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 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 …