Please Welcome…Conlan Brown (*Originally posted July 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelist Conlan Brown as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds. Conlan is an energetic young man who will both talk your ear off and take a bullet for you. I first encountered Conlan at the Colorado Christian Writer’s Conference in 2008. I was teaching the advanced fiction track and I had this very sharp kid in the first row who volunteered for every skit, answer, or writing challenge I threw out to the class. He was outspoken and funny and, frankly, just about …
Interview with Bill Snodgrass
Please Welcome…Bill Snodgrass (*Originally posted March 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction champion Bill Snodgrass as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Bill is a published author of Christian speculative fiction, but he is mainly known to fans of these genres as the mastermind behind Double-Edged Publishing (DEP). DEP publishes books, poetry, and a wide array of e-zines of interest to fans of Christian speculative fiction. Two of their publications, The Sword Review and Dragons, Knights, and Angels were merged in 2008 to form Mindflights. DEP’s other online publications include Ray Gun Revival, Teenage, Haruah, and Fear and Trembling. Check …
Interview with Robert Liparulo
Please Welcome…Robert Liparulo (*Originally posted January 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative novelist Robert Liparulo as our interview guest this month at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Bob is an author of Christian thrillers with a decidedly speculative edge. His first novel, Comes a Horseman, starts off as a serial killer police procedural and quickly morphs into a global chase for a man who thinks he’s the antichrist. In Germ, a biologist creates a designer virus that becomes lethal only when it’s found the exact DNA of the person it’s looking for. Several of his novels are in development with Hollywood producers. The …
Interview with Rebecca LuElla Miller
Please Welcome…Rebecca Miller (*Originally posted August 2008) What a joy to have Christian novelist and speculative fiction pioneer Rebecca LuElla Miller as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Becky is one of those ladies you need to get to know if you’re serious about Christian speculative fiction fandom. Not only is she a novelist herself, she is the administrator of the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour, the editor of the Latest in Spec e-newsletter, a blogger on her own site and at Speculative Faith, and the initiator of the Clive Staples Award for Christian speculative fiction. Yikes. Add all …
Interview with Frank Creed
Please Welcome…Frank Creed (*Originally posted July 2008) What a joy to have Christian novelist and speculative fiction pioneer Frank Creed as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Frank is one of those guys you need to get to know if you’re serious about Christian speculative fiction fandom. Not only is he a novelist himself, he is the founder of The Lost Genre Guild, one of the premier nexus points on the Internet for all things pertaining to the genres we love. Frank is also the head literary critic for thefinishers.biz, and a Biblical cyberpunk artist. His near-future, high-tech, dystopian science fiction …
Sunday Devotion–Acts 8, Simon and Samaria
13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw. 14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the …
Interview with Donita K. Paul
Please Welcome…Donita K. Paul (*Originally published June 2008) What a joy to have Christian novelist Donita K. Paul as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Ah, Donita, the dragon lady, my buddy in Colorado Springs. Donita and I had known each other through a writer’s online group we’re both part of, but we became good friends when my family and I moved to Colorado Springs. It was the end of October when we moved, so Donita invited us to her church for their we’re-not-celebrating-Halloween “harvest festival.” It was great fun and we’ve been attending that church ever since. We also end …
In Darkness There is Light
This is not only a tagline for the kind of fiction I write, it is a tagline for my life. When my husband was laid off and went almost a year without work, there was light. When my son became so ill he stopped breathing and had to be lifeflighted to Portland, there was light. When a lump the size of a golf ball was found in my breast, there was light. It wasn’t a blazing light; it wasn’t a burst of sunshine. The darkness that filled my life during those times felt so overbearing that I felt I would …
Interview with Eric Wilson
Please Welcome…Eric Wilson (*Originally posted May 2008) What a joy to have Christian novelist Eric Wilson as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. I first met Eric when he was an aspiring novelist and I was an editor at Multnomah Publishers in Oregon. We had communicated a few times via e-mail and I had taken a look at some of his early writing. (His memory of my feedback to him about it: “Ouch!”) One day we got to meet in person when he was passing through town. We got together for a nice talk in the park and he gave me …