Author Kerry Nietz gave himself the challenge of bringing to the printed page a jest about writing the ultimate cross-genre novel, to be titled Amish Vampires in Space. He did a great job; his book that has won some awards. Sci-fi he could handle. Vampires, same. But Amish romance? Find out how he researched it here: http://www.speculativefaith.com/amish-eye-for-the-sci-fi-guy-part-1/
Behind the Scenes: How author Aaron DeMott names his characters
I’m bad with names. Bad at remembering them, and bad at naming things. When I wrote A New Threat, one of the characters was Australian. (I knew this because he spoke with an Australian accent. 😉 ) What he didn’t come with, was a name. So, I Googled “Most common Australian names”, and picked “Jack”. […]
Behind the Scenes: How the tale of a lonely burro inspired author Yvonne Anderson
The Story in the Stars, the book that launched my Gateway to Gannah sci-fi series, was inspired by a little nonfiction book I ran across about a decade ago, originally written in the 1880s but reprinted almost a century later. It proposed the theory that when God created the heavens and the earth, He arranged […]
What on earth is going on here?
Things are getting wacky around here today! Captioneers, take a moment to tell us what the princess is thinking! What is she risking by setting foot on this soil?