Please Welcome…Leanna Ellis This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Leanna Ellis. Leanna Ellis writes quirky fiction. And you don’t get much quirkier or weirder than an Amish/vampire story, right? Ellis wrote category romance for many years and then God moved her toward women’s inspirational fiction. She’s still just following after God and where he leads…even into the dark, scary world of the Amish. So now, the interview… WhereTheMapEnds: Catch us up with you. What have you been up to lately? Leanna Ellis: Basically, I’m a mom with a wild imagination. So between homeschooling and carting kids …
Alton Gansky interviews Jeff Gerke
What is speculative fiction? Where did Jeff come up with the name “Marcher Lord Press” for his publishing company? What makes his publishing model different than other companies out there? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this video interview.
Interview with Ellen Maze
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 …
Kathy Tyers and Sharon Hinck talk with USAToday about the Modern Woman and Romance
Our own MLP Authors Kathy Tyers and Sharon Hinck share their thoughts on romance and the modern woman in a 5 part series by USAToday. Check it out! Exploring Romance and the Modern Woman
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Marcher Lord and the Hinterlands Imprint
Both Jeff Gerke and Vox Day share their thoughts on the new Marcher Lord Press imprint Hinterlands and Day’s novel Throne of Bones: Marcher Lord Press and the Hinterlands Imprint On the Throne of Bones: a Q&A with Vox Day
Note from Teacher about Jill Williamson’s Blood of Kings Trilogy
Sometimes you receive a note that makes you smile. Here is one that MLP Author Jill received from a teacher: Hi Jill, I just wanted to let you know how much my students have been enjoying By Darkness Hid. We are scheduled to finish it on Thursday, but many students have already finished it and have gone on to To Darkness Fled. One avid reader has even finished the entire trilogy. I’ve lent my personal copies to students, and the library has had to order additional copies of the sequels in an attempt to meet the demand. Students have also …
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