Interview with Fred Warren

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Please Welcome…Fred Warren (*Originally posted September 2010) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Fred Warren. Fred Warren’s short speculative fiction has appeared in a variety of print and online magazines, and his first novel, The Muse, a modern fantasy of inspiration both divine and diabolical, debuted in November 2009 from Splashdown Books. It is a 2010 Carol Award Finalist in the Speculative category. Fred works as a government contractor in eastern Kansas, providing computer simulation support for Army training, which pays the bills but isn’t nearly as much fun as writing. He’s happily married to the …

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Interview with Leanna Ellis

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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 …

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Interview with Ellen Maze

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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 …

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Interview with Merrie Destefano

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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 …

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Interview with Rachel Marks

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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 …

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Interview with Tom Pawlik

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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 …

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