Hi everyone! Today we are excited to have Nadine Brandes with us! Yeah! She’s an adventurer, fusing authentic faith with bold imagination. She writes about brave living, finding purpose, and other worlds soaked in imagination. Her dystopian trilogy (The Out of Time Series) challenged her to pursue shalom, which is now her favorite word (followed closely by bumbershoot.) When she’s not taste-testing a new chai or editing fantasy novels, she and her knight-in-shining armor (nickname: “hubby”) are out pursuing adventures. Welcome! 1) What is your favorite part of speculative fiction? The fact that there are no limits! Almost all other genres start in an existing world whether that’s …
Mythological Creatures: Phoenix vs. Thunderbird
Fantasy is filled with mythological creatures. But how well do we really know them? Who, off the top of their head, can define the difference between phoenix and a thunderbird? . No one? Okay, then let’s start a new blog series on . . . you guessed it. Mythological creatures! . Phoenix If you’ve read Harry Potter, then you have a good idea what a phoenix is. This mythological bird regenerates from its own ashes every time it dies. According to greek mythology, it’s associated with the sun and fire. The phoenix could be as large as an eagle and generally has scarlet …
Author Interview: Nadine Brandes
This week at Enclave Publishing, we are spotlighting the debut novel from our own Nadine Brandes, A Time to Die. Nadine is an adventurer, fusing authentic faith with bold imagination. She writes stories about brave living, finding purpose, and other worlds soaked in imagination. Nadine lives in Idaho, working as a freelance editor and full-time author. A Time to Die is the first in her dystopian trilogy. One sentence challenge: Tell us about your book in one sentence. Do run-on sentences count? Just kidding…okay *deep breath*: In a world where everyone has a Clock showing their day of death, …
A Time to Die Kickstarter Video
As part of our Kickstarter campaign we have Nadine Brandes here to talk about her upcoming debut novel, A Time to Die. Enjoy!
June Speculative News
Here’s the latest news in the world of Christian speculative fiction: ~Name change for Marcher Lord Press. Marcher Lord Press is now Enclave Publishing. New website and updated social media to follow in the next couple months. Here is a preview of the new logo: ~A Cast of Stones, the first in a medieval fantasy series by Patrick Carr, won the 2014 Clive Staples Award for Christian speculative fiction. ~Dragonwitch by Anne Elisabeth Stengl took this year’s Christy Award in the Visionary category. ~Two cover reveals for Enclave’s fall release: A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes and Failstate:Nemesis by …
Cover Reveal for A Time to Die
A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes We are very excited to reveal the cover of the first of our Fall 2014 new books. Below is the description of the book and then comes the cover. _____________________ How would you live if you knew the day you’d die? Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government’s crooked justice system. But when the authorities find …
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 …