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People Groups

The creation of people groups seems to be a common speculative trope, sometimes for allegorical purposes and sometimes for the sheer beauty and ingenuity of creation. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Heaven Malarkey: Lifeway, Tyndale and The State Of Christian Publishing

Being a Christian means you act like Christ, whether you’re a plumber, author, publisher, or Malarkey. · Randy Streu

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. · 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? · E. Stephen Burnett

What The World Doesn’t Know About Christmas

Ah, it’s Christmas. We celebrate Jesus, good news to the world, because He brings peace on earth, He gives joy to all mankind. Yet so obviously, many people do not have peace or joy and do not understand the promise of Christmas. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Crossover Bug

Does Christian fiction crossing over to the general market mean watering down the Faith? · R. L. Copple

Theology and Heroes-Shaping Our Stories By What We Believe

To add to our enjoyment of a good story, we have the excitement of holding it up transparently before the Story of God and finding its parallels and tangents. · Jill Richardson

7 Top Ways To Ensure Your Story Is Preachy

You know you want your Christian story to preach. What are the best ways to ensure that outcome? Here are 7 top methods. · R. L. Copple

Thanksgiving Day And Speculative Fiction

In speculative literature, Thanksgiving can be much more than just a celebration. Whether or not a story world holds harvest festivals and how they are celebrated can define a culture and make it come alive. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

What Do We Do About God?

Fiction can represent Christ, rather than replicate Him, simply by portraying characters who lead the escape or sacrifice that others might live or provide the means of healing the wounded or become the long-awaited ruler. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Not Of This World

How does Christian fiction influence our culture? · R. L. Copple

Reflecting The Spirit Of Columbus

Think what it took for Columbus to set sail, depending on little else besides his idea of what the world looked like. He had to have courage, an adventurous spirit, fortitude, confidence. In miniature I think these are the same qualities writers and readers have to have. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Kickstarting A Book To Life

Crowdfunding makes you the reader and the author a team like never before. · Brock D. Eastman

Story Weariness

I’ve had other instances of story weariness, which I guess I’ll define as familiarity with a story to the point that another rendition seems needless and unappealing. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

5 Reasons Why We Love Dystopian Heroines

What is it about The Hunger Games, Divergent, and many other similar novels that has spawned multimillion-dollar movie deals, thousand upon thousands of book sales, and rabid fans enthusiastically creating fan art and fan fiction? · C. J. Darlington

Five Reasons Why Supporting Enclave’s Kickstarter Is A Good Idea

Splickety Magazine owner/editor Ben Wolf shares five informed reasons to support Enclave Publishing ’s Kickstarter. · Ben Wolf

If You Want To Make God Laugh…

So last month, I spent a Monday night seated in front of my computer. My wife would tell you that this, in and of itself, is not unusual. But that particular night, I was watching the liveblog for the Christy […] · John Otte

Why Does Romance Dominate Christian Fiction?

There is an inherent discontinuity between the Christian Faith and fiction. · R. L. Copple

The Coming Speculative Fiction Storm

For the first time in forever, an author no longer needed a publisher to economically publish their book and have readers find and buy it. · R. L. Copple
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