Hi, my name is Morgan L. Busse and I am one of the new authors here at Marcher Lord Press. I will be blogging about God, faith, and the speculative here on the new website. This first post I wrote back on January 1st, 2011. Much has happened to me since that day almost two years ago. But one thing has not changed: God is the Author of my life. Here is my post. I have been writing for a couple years now (make that seven this up coming spring). During those years I have wrestled with characters, plots, journeys, …
Interview with Mitchell Bonds
Twice a week, for the next several weeks, the original interviews with Christian speculative authors over at Wherethemapends.com will be reappearing here at the new Marcher Lord website. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Mitchell Bonds (*Originally posted October 2008) What a joy to have Christian speculative novelist Mitchell Bonds as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Mitchell is an irrepressible young man with an impish sense of humor and loads of talent. When I asked him how he’d like to be introduced, this is what he said: I require no introduction. I am the Legendary Mitchell Bonds. Should this not immediately trigger your memory, …
Fantastic Visions Friday – Frank Hettick
Every Friday, Marcher Lord Press salutes a Christian artist who creates amazing speculative worlds. Lovers of Christian speculative fiction do not restrict themselves to the amazing worlds depicted by talented authors. We gravitate as well to those artists who can, through their gifts of vision and art, show us worlds and beings we’ve never imagined. The artist whose gallery is linked to below ushers us to worlds of fantasy, science fiction, and pure speculative wonder. Frank Hettick Frank Hettick, who passed away in 2011, was a gracious friend of Marcher Lord Press (and its predecessor site, WhereTheMapEnds.com). Frank’s space art …
First Blog Post
Since 2007, when we started announcing Marcher Lord Press, and since October of 2008, when we actually released our first books, MLP has been—and remains—the premier publisher of Christian science fiction and fantasy books. In the years since then, the publishing industry has been turned on its head. The givens of the whole industry—the major players, the big bookstores, and even the publishing model itself—have been radically changed. When MLP first launched, our publishing model was considered unusual. I’d tell my professional colleagues what we were planning, and they’d look at me like I’d eaten a funky mushroom. I’d love …