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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing The Centurion’s Wife Bethany House Publishers (January 1, 2009) by Davis Bunn and Janette Oke ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Davis Bunn has sold more than six million books in fifteen languages in genres ranging from high drama and action thrillers to heartwarming relationship stories. He has three Christy Awards for excellence in historical and suspense fiction. His novels include My Soul To Keep, and Full Circle.  Bunn was named Novelist in Residence at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University. He and his wife, Isabella, make their home in Florida for some of each year, and spend the restRead More →

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This month, the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour features D. Barkley Briggs‘s fantasy novel, The Book of Names, first in the Legends of Karac Tor series. Naturally, the intended audience is teens 13-18. To a great extent, I have to agree with Imagination Investigation,  Most adults should be able to handle the material, but it may be a little dark for impressionable teens, but that is, as always around here, best left to the discernment of parents. So read it before deciding whether it’s suitable for your child. His theological handling of spiritual gifts versus magic is basically correct, but he confuses theRead More →

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Dear Andrea, I’ve had several “Christians” accuse me of having a “post-modern worldview” and insist that I need to develop a “biblical worldview.” But I don’t even know what post-modernism is! For that matter, what’s a world view? Why do some Christians make such a big deal about it? Thank you, Ima Googler* Dear Googler, I’ll take “what’s a world view?” first. A world view is simply the lens through which you view the world. It’s the sum of all your unconscious beliefs about the nature of the world, truth, reality, God, and so forth. The nature of a worldview is such that it isRead More →

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Gentle Readers, Wanted to let those of you following CSFF’s tour of the Lost Genre Guild last week know that our girl (hey, I was raised in the hood) Grace Bridges and The Writer Cafe Press’ lovely Cynthia have full coverage over at the LGG news blog, with plenty of links to Laser and Sword, the serial fiction magazine I edit. Next, let me give a congrats to hubby, for launching new web serials on Laser & Sword‘s blog-now the stories from the zine are available for free, in weekly spoonfuls you can absorb in five minutes (the impatient sorts can still buy the e-issuesRead More →

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This month, one of the book tours I regular decided to review an organization instead: the Lost Genre Guild. The LGG is a group of science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers, most of whom are Christian and most of whom write stuff that glorifies the Lord, that banded together to market and promote the genres that rarely show up on the shelves at Christian bookstores, unless of course your name is Ted Dekker or Frank Peretti.  The spiffy term the guild uses, besides the Lost Genre, is Biblical Speculative Fiction. Since it’s not linked to the top level of the domain, the LGG’s site also hasRead More →