I'm thrilled to announce the release of an awesome new book that you Christian fantasy lovers will not want to miss. Adventure, danger, romance, dark creatures, life and death, and a strong and true message...you'll find that and much more in The Fiercest Fight. Also...that cover is simply amazing - I dare you to disagree [...]
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Cinderella Schemes #1: An Interview with Shonna Slayton
As a way to celebrate the release of A Wish Made of Glass, I'm doing a series of interviews with other authors who have written retellings or renditions of the Cinderella story. I've got some pretty spectacular authors lined up, so I hope you'll join me every Monday from today until August 3rd. In the first [...]
Falcon Heart: A Medieval Fantasy
A strange dagger... Adventure beyond fear... Slavers seize Kyrin Cieri from the coast of medieval Britain and sail for Araby. With a dagger from her murdered mother's hand, an exiled warrior from the East, and a peasant girl, Kyrin finds mystery, martial skill, and friendship closer than blood. The falcon dagger pursues her through tiger-haunted [...]
A Love Letter – Out of Darkness Rising
This is a guest post by Gillian Bronte Adams. ____________ Brevity may not be my strength, but if you were to ask me to describe Out of Darkness Rising in only a few words, I would say that at its heart, it is a love letter. To whom, you ask? I suppose it could be [...]
When Stories Are Truer Than Fact
This is a guest post by Suzannah Rowntree, the author of the freshly released (as in, yesterday!!) Pendragon's Heir. ____________ As the author of a novel which is rooted in a deep and abiding love of medieval literature, I’ve spent much time over the last few years meditating on what great works of literature can teach [...]
Ramblings on Writing Spaces
Growing up, all my stories and poems and songs and plays - even my first couple of books - went into spiral notebooks. They were badly smudged, with that pesky left-hander pencil smear across most of the pages. I can still remember the smell of pencil shavings and the satisfying rustle of pages turning. I [...]
A Giveaway for Reviewers of THE WORD CHANGERS!
Once upon a time, there was an author who was very thankful for all the support she had received from her readers and reviewers. As grateful as she was, she knew that "thank you," and lots of smiles (which no one saw anyway) could only go so far.... So she decided to give something away [...]
Hunger Games vs. A Time to Die
This is a guest post by Nadine Brandes, the author of the newly released dystopian novel, A Time to Die. ____________ “What’s your book about?” My most common response: “It’s like Hunger Games, only Christian.” This is rather ironic since half the inspiration behind A Time to Die came from wanting to write a book [...]
A Thing or Two About the Phoenix
1. A phoenix can live between 500 and 1000 years, at the end of which it will build a nest and ignite, burn fiercely, and be reborn from its own ashes. 2. The Roman poet Ovid maintained that the phoenix was not necessarily reborn from its own ashes, but that it would burst into flames [...]
Dystopian Book Review and Giveaway
It's release day for Nadine Brande's dystopian debut novel, A Time to Die!! The eBook is available here, and the paperback version is available now, here, for pre-order (releases officially October 1st). Nadine is hosting a Facebook launch party tonight from 4-6 (Pacific Time). She'll be posting some fun things every 10 minutes, and answering questions [...]
Ashlee Willis, Author of Fantasy 