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‘Hobbit’ Hopes and Other Happenings

“The Hobbit” teaser finally arrives, Gandalf’s and Dumbledore’s first-century ancestors seek the newborn King, the dangers of appearance-based book discernment, Christmas un-specials, and: why should Christians hype “The Hobbit”? · E. Stephen Burnett

Christmas Un-Specials 2011

Purely for fun and no profit, this year I made up a list of 50 holiday-related TV movies that (with a few exceptions) will never be produced — I hope. · E. Stephen Burnett

Why So Serious?

It’s understandable. Writing Christian speculative fiction feels like serious business. We’ve got souls to save, demons to battle, and apocalypses to forecast. There’s simply no time for idle banter or frivolity. · Fred Warren

My 2010 Favorites

Being a slow reader and too poor to see a lot of movies and not being a big television watcher, I don’t have long lists of favorites. Consequently this is a limited selection of favorites. I’m picking my top three […] · Rebecca LuElla Miller

John Buchan on A Fiction Author’s ‘cleverness’

Politician, diplomat, Scotsman, Presbyterian, and writer of dozens of World War 1-era spy novels with occasional supernatural flair — that was John Buchan, who also, it seems, had a penchant for self-parody. That seems clear from this exchange early in […] · E. Stephen Burnett

Weird Science

One of my favorite pastimes is wandering the internet wastelands looking for weird bits of science & culture that pop up to see if there is something that I could modify for use in my stories. One of my all-time […] · Stuart Stockton

Beware The ‘Moon People’!

In Which the Author Attempts to Demonstrate the Unique Pitfalls Often Associated with Lack of Accountability, Shunning Editors and the Unfortunate Enablement Offered by Vanity Publishing. Reviewers give it four-and-a-half stars on Amazon.com. Despite its humble origins and short length, […] · E. Stephen Burnett

Dawn’s Unending Horizon

Coming soon (this Tuesday, shortly before 3:13 pm) to an inspirational shelf near you … I’ve decided to give up on this whole speculative thing. Instead, it would much better serve Jesus, and the people in churches — at least, […] · E. Stephen Burnett

‘He Is Her Hunter — and Her Slave’!

Aside from my hand there, this photo is not arranged. My wife and I spotted this last week at a Presbyterian church rummage sale. And we had to wonder if the same Presbyterian had read and enjoyed both books. Ah, […] · E. Stephen Burnett
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