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Announcement: The Future of Spec Faith

Today seemed like the best day to pass on some great news for Spec Faith.
Rebecca LuElla Miller on Apr 1, 2019
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Today seemed like the best day to pass on some great news for Spec Faith. With the success of Lorehaven Magazine, we’ve made the decision to dive into full book publishing as soon as June. We are happy to announce that submission guidelines are in the works, will soon be published, and open.

Our own Shannon McDermott, who writes for Spec Faith every other Wednesday, has come on board to be our primary acquisition editor. Travis Perry, who already has experience in the publishing arena, will handle the formatting, art work, and production. Stephen Burnett, the publisher of Lorehaven, will head up the promotion for the new SpecFaith imprint.

I and others of our staff will handle the various levels of editing. We anticipate that we will put out our first book as soon as January, 2020. We have yet to determine what our parameters will be, but we know we want speculative fiction that is Christian. Not quasi-Christian, and not secular. There are lots of publishers which already provide avenues for such books. We want to publish books that make no apology for telling stories aimed at helping Christians grow in their walk for Christ.

You can get a good feel for the books we’ll be interested in by reading the Spec Faith Statement of Faith.

Some other ideas we are considering: partnering with Realm Makers to form THE go-to publisher for Christian speculative fiction; working with Enclave and perhaps becoming a subsidiary to their publishing house; coming under the umbrella of ACFW (the American Christian Fiction Writers organization).

We’d love to hear some of your ideas. We’re especially interested in any volunteer help and in art work for the new Spec Faith imprint logo.

How do you feel about this kind of a publishing venture? Do you see a need? What do you think the parameters should be?

One more thing . . . April Fools.

Rebecca LuElla Miller
Best known for her aspirations as an epic fantasy author, Becky is the sole remaining founding member of Speculative Faith. Besides contributing weekly articles here, she blogs Monday through Friday at A Christian Worldview of Fiction. She works as a freelance writer and editor and posts writing tips as well as information about her editing services at Rewrite, Reword, Rework.
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  1. Lauren Beauchamp says:
    April 1, 2019 at 4:32 pm

    Very funny! I’ve been too busy today to have any real April Fools fun.

    Reply
  2. Rebecca LuElla Miller says:
    April 1, 2019 at 4:41 pm

    So, for anyone interested, would you mind sharing when you first realized this “announcement” was for April Fools?

    Reply
    • Lauren Beauchamp says:
      April 1, 2019 at 4:59 pm

      I was pretty sure from the first line . . . but I wasn’t positive until the last line. From the title, I thought the site might be shutting down — and hoped that was a joke!

      Reply
      • Rebecca LuElla Miller says:
        April 2, 2019 at 1:13 pm

        Yeah, I actually thought about going that direction, but I didn’t want anyone to miss the fact that it was a joke and start spreading the false rumor. 😀

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