Readers And Writers Finding Each Other

For me, reading is similar to going to a nice restaurant. When I order my meal, do I get the item on the menu that I know I really like, or do I experiment, try something new?
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in June 2013 —

Three Reasons To Support Self-Publishing

Stephen’s cautions from yesterday are well taken. Yet self-publishing need not be a solo act, and it’s a great way to escape a top-heavy industry with its bottom-line gatekeepers.
— A. T. Ross in June 2013 —

Art And The Clive Staples Award, Continued

The Clive Staples Award is not a popularity contest. Consequently, no voter should choose a book he has not read! Our aim instead is to honor fiction well written.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in June 2013 —

In The Beginning …

There’s nothing new under the sun — no matter what galaxy or fantasy world you care to mention. The challenge is weaving it all together so it feels fresh and new.
— Michelle Levigne in June 2013 —

How To Be A Silly Christian Fiction Critic

Don’t read actual Christian fiction. Compare apples and oranges. And especially, never challenge your own silent acceptance of evangelical tropes.
— E. Stephen Burnett in June 2013 —

Art And The Clive Staples Award

There are good books on the list, and I don’t think it’s going to be easy to pick the one I want to vote for as best of the lot. But I’d like to think through the process of making that choice.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in June 2013 —

The Clive Staples Award For Christian Speculative Fiction

For those in the US, blessings on this Memorial Day. For all of us, an update on the Clive Staples Award–specifically three announcements
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in May 2013 —

Speculative Fiction And Our Culture

How do we as Christians know what to do when we face troubling circumstances: disabilities, abortion, choices between life and death? All of that makes me think, What do we as Christians do in a world of super drones and string theory and cloning and possible pandemics and the push for euthanasia?
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in May 2013 —

Word Vs. Image, Part 2

Brian Godawa: Would conservatives scold Jesus for sharing confusing stories instead of tightly organized three-point sermons?
— Brian Godawa in May 2013 —

Books Versus The Screen

The vast majority of the best stories are within the pages of books, not on the little or big screen.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in May 2013 —

Word Vs. Image, Part 1

Author and screenwriter Brian Godawa: “Our Western bias toward rational discourse can too easily blind us to the biblical power of story and word pictures to embody truth.”
— Brian Godawa in May 2013 —

Sharing My Reading Joy

Many readers are still unfamiliar with Christian speculative fiction–even Christian writers, even Christians writing speculative fiction. Consequently, I thought I’d share with you some of my favorites.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in May 2013 —

Realm Makers 2013: Registration Now Open

Fantasy/sci-fi/speculative writers of the Christian persuasion: registration has opened for the Realm Makers writers’ conference, this August in St. Louis.
— E. Stephen Burnett in May 2013 —

World-building: The Undervalued Element Of Speculative Fiction

Books that transport me somewhere else have a dense culture filled with rituals, slang, moral right and wrong, tradition, art, entertainment, bureaucracy, and so much more.
— Rebecca LuElla Miller in April 2013 —

The Geek’s Prayer

Geeks pray differently. And that’s a good thing.
— Bradley Huebert in April 2013 —

The Forgotten Reader 2: R.E.A.D.

Before discussing reading first and writing shop-talk second, what do we mean by “reading”? True reading starts with humble Receiving and ends in God-worshipful Delight.
— E. Stephen Burnett in April 2013 —

Reading Classics

Why do we read some books over and over? Why do some books end up in curriculum, each generation savoring the story of an author long dead?
— Donita K. Paul in April 2013 —
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