Hi and welcome to another speculative author interview from wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! (*Originally posted December 2009) Please Welcome…Steve Rzasa What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelist Steve Rzasa as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds. You pronounce Rzasa as “rah-za,” which I learned much to my disappointment, as I’d been having fun saying ARR-Zassa. Alas. I encountered Steve through the acquisitions process at Marcher Lord Press. My volunteer readers kept coming back to me with notes like, “Jeff, you have to hurry up and read this book, Commissioned, by Steve Raz… Zra.. Rastafari—By this Steve guy.” The …
But Who Would Be Dumb Enough To Even Try It? (Episode 4)
Time for “Speculative Story Saturday” here at Marcher Lord Press! Here is the latest installment. *** Two rats the size of a small dog slowly rotate above the campfire on a makeshift spit. They smell like dog too, only more smoky. They pop and sizzle, their skin turning a crisp red. Up above, the sky is black as ebony and filled with thousands of tiny stars. A warm, humid wind blows, causing the ancient trees around us to creak. I sit on a nearby log, careful to keep my white plated boots out of the encroaching swamp waters. The …
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Interview with Kirk Outerbridge
Welcome to another interview from over at wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Kirk Outerbridge What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelist Kirk Outerbridge as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds. I first encountered Kirk when he hired me to do some editorial work on a novel he had titled The Miracle Treatment. I found it to be a wonderful and thoughtful near-future SF cyborg thriller mystery thing. Ah, the hybrids!. Then Kirk joined The Anomaly forums, and I got to know him even better as Kouter. From the beginning, I’d had Kirk’s book in mind as something to …
Interview with Stuart Vaughn Stockton
Here is another review from wherethemapends.com. Please Welcome… Stuart Vaughn Stockton (*Originally posted June 2009) This month our interview guest is Christian speculative fiction novelist Stuart Vaughn Stockton. Stuart is one of those guys you meet who has…let’s call it a rich inner life. His body may be here, but his mind is in a far-off galaxy inhabited by advanced creatures bearing more resemblance to T. Rex than you or me. He says he was only two years old when he managed to blow up an electrical outlet using only a pinto bean and a metal fork. We speculate that …
Interview with Randall Ingermanson
Here is another interview brought to you from wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Randall Ingermanson (*Originally posted August 2007) What a joy to have Christian author Randall Ingermanson as our interview guest at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Randy and I have been friends for a number of years. He’s funny, painfully smart, and as whimsical as a child. He’s always laughing and always willing to help someone out. Randy is, I’m sure, the only physicist I know. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley. He is also the author of six Christian novels, each of which has won some sort of award. …
How I became a Marcher Lord Author
Last week I shared how I became a writer. Later that night, after I wrote my post, I received a surprising email. Here is the story… (*I originally posted this on August 6th, 2011) I first heard about Marcher Lord Press through a blog interview a few years ago. By then, I knew enough about the writing industry to know that publishing a Christian fantasy would be difficult. Hardly any Christian publishing companies were taking those kinds of books. They wanted romance, historical, Amish. Not a fantasy set in a different world. Not my kind of book. Then I read …
Interview with Jill Williamson
Time for another interview from wherethemapends.com: Please Welcome…Jill Williamson (*Originally posted May 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction novelist Jill Williamson as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds.com. Jill has a passion to reach teens through ministry and art. Her fantasy novel, By Darkness Hid, was originally conceived as a YA title (i.e., for teen readers), but Jeff convinced her it would work very well for adults too. By Darkness Hid is one of three books that comprise the second release list from Marcher Lord Press. Jill is married to a youth pastor, so she knows …
Interview with Marc Schooley
Here is another interview from over wherethemapends.com. Enjoy! Please Welcome…Marc Schooley (*Originally posted April 2009) What a joy to have Christian speculative fiction author Marc Schooley as our interview guest this month here at WhereTheMapEnds.com. In his own words, Marc is “the ‘not so much science, fiction writer who generally writes and reads nonfiction, so if I can do it, anyone can’ author of The Dark Man, and a man who values the Bible above all other books, and as the standard by which they all ought to be measured.” Marc is one of three Christian novelists whose books comprise …
How did I become a writer?
Hi, this is Morgan L. Busse again. The next two weeks I will be sharing how I became a writer and part of Marcher Lord Press. This post I published in early 2011, before I got “the call.” How did I become a writer? Most authors I know begin their story with something about when they were six they knew they wanted to be a writer. Not so with me. When I was six I wanted to be a pegasus unicorn (probably explains why I write fantasy now). I never dreamed of being a writer. In high school, I loved …