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Topics: Marketing
What’s In A Book Cover
Clearly some readers are making reading decisions based on covers.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
SpecFaith Library: Q and A
The SpecFaith Library is a comprehensive guide to every published Christian fantastical novel. Here’s how it works.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Finding Good Books
Should we be content to let traditional publishers narrow their offerings while we scramble on our own to find the books we like—books we hope are out there but can’t know for sure if we’ll find?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The State Of Christian Fantastical Fiction 2: We Need The Church
Why is Christian fantastical story-promotion struggling? Here’s a crucial hiding-in-plain-sight reason.
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E. Stephen Burnett
The State Of Christian Fantastical Fiction 1: Disillusioned
Maybe you have felt the Christian-fantastical bandwagon slowing down. Why might that be?
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E. Stephen Burnett
Getting The Most Out Of Conferences
What makes the expense of traveling to a conference, paying for tuition and room and board, spending two or more days away from family and the regular routine of life, worth it?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Confessions Of A Spec-Fic Convert
We all know it: The Look that magically appears when you try to explain your favorite fandom to your non-geek friends.
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Katie Morford
The Speed Of Excellence
I certainly get that when readers have more books to buy, an author stands to make more money to support his writing habit, but the proliferation model creates problems for both writers and readers.
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Rebecca P. Minor
Reaching Beyond Exclusive Readers
How can readers like me, the eclectic kind, find out about books we label “speculative”?
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
Managing The Minefield On The Way To Successful Publication
With the changes in the book industry, I think it’s helpful to discuss two particular elements of writing that lead to successful publication. By “successful” I mean selling to people other than our friends and family.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
The Surprising Delight Of Sudden Geekiness
Which is better: “I can’t stand subpar/sinful stories” or “I absolutely love this story”?
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E. Stephen Burnett
How To Help Fantastic Heroes, Part 2
Don’t act like ‘support zombies”; only promote fantastic stories because they delight us.
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How To Help Fantastic Heroes, Part 1
Before fans can promote fantastic stories or publishers, we must love the heroes and quests.
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E. Stephen Burnett
The AViS Effect
Yes, give the gift of “Amish Vampires in Space” this Christmas, but this breakout novel could help boost the entire Christian fantasy/scifi genre.
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Kerry Nietz
Announcing Realm Makers 2014
The place: Villanova University. The time: May 30-31, 2014. Featured speaker: Bestselling fantasy author Tosca Lee.
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Rebecca P. Minor
Loving Human Journeys Over Genres
Scripture isn’t first about kings, tents, and donkeys; other stories aren’t first about worlds, battles, and dragons.
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E. Stephen Burnett
Truth In Labeling
The world isn’t helped when Christian books further confusion about the faith.
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Yvonne Anderson
Working Together
Please take a moment and answer this poll question with as many of the choices as apply to you.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
How Small Do We Want To Be?
Not only can God use speculative stories to make Himself known, which we’ve discussed frequently here at Spec Faith, but He can do so on a Grand Scale. He is not a tiny God struggling for recognition.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller
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