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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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Fiction Friday: Oxygen by John B. Olson and Randy Ingermanson

“Bob Kaganovski had shampoo in his eyes when the decompression alarm went off . . .” · Rebecca LuElla Miller

2018 Spec Faith Winter Writing Challenge Feedback

The more input, the more feedback, the better. But please be courteous to all the entrants, encouraging people to read all and vote for as many as they like. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday — Outlaws of Time: The Legend of Sam Miracle by N. D. Wilson

Sam Miracle has always been different. An orphan who lives in a group home, he often blanks out and finds himself in vivid dreams that seem almost real. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

2018 Spec Faith Winter Writing Challenge

Feel free to invite any of your friends to participate, either as writers or readers. The more entries and the more feedback, the better the challenge. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Weekday Fiction Fix – Seeds by Rachel Starr Thomson

In the fantasy world of Kepos Gé, Linette Cole flees her past by joining a frontier settlement on the edge of the wilderness. But she can’t escape the threats abroad in this new world—or the wild things growing in her own heart. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fantasy That Works

Next time you read a fantasy, see how it measures in these areas: premise, conflict, realistic characters that act, a dense story world, a story that says something important. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday — Exiles by R. J. Larson

For daring to trust their Creator, Araine and Nikaros are swept from their homes into a foreign land—slaves to their enemies. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

What If Your Kids DO Read Fantasy?

Parents should be aware and involved in the thought life of their children, and what they read feeds into their thoughts as much, if not more, than what they see. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Star Wars And Christian Fiction

The idea seems to be that I, being a Christian, will quite naturally write from a Christian worldview. But is that true? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

So Many Good Writers, So Many Good Books

I thought perhaps today we could add to those resources by sharing information about books and/or authors we like that may be flying under the radar, and others need to know what we know. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Happy New Year!

From all of us here at Spec Faith to all of you and yours: wishing you a Happy New Year · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Wingfeather Saga Short Film

This first in the Wingfeather Saga films is very well done. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Wishing You A Blessed Christmas

The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The Wretched Controversy

The longer this Wretched position sits there with only a brief flurry of opposition, the more deadly it becomes. What may have started out as an interesting concept to consider can quickly become a hardened conviction. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

What Is It About Fantasy And Christmas?

The cool thing about good fantasy, however, is that no one explains it. There isn’t a narrator in C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books that says, “Now boys and girls, Aslan is actually Jesus.” Instead, readers are allowed to discover the dots on their own and connect them at their leisure. Or leave them unconnected. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

The God Of The Impossible

One thing I love about speculative fiction is the fact that it opens the door to the impossible. It expands our vision of reality. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Weekday Fiction Fix – Fairytale Christmas by Merrie Destefano

Three thousand years ago, a war began between the immortals and the mortals. It’s a war that continues to this day. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Language And The Influence Of Speculative Fiction

While language influences, the ideas language conveys, influence more. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Weekday Fiction Fix – Lawless by Janeen Ippolito

Lawless by Janeen IppolitoThe salvation of humans and dragons lies within a convicted murderer. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

If Donkeys Could Talk: The Point Of Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is known for . . . well, speculation. Writers ask the “what if” question in ways that break known boundaries. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday: “Pearla’s First Christmas”-Reprise

“Pearla’s First Christmas” is a short story, written from the point of view of one of the characters in the Angel Eyes trilogy, and is available as a free download from author Shannon Dittemore. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Thankful Characters-A Reprise

Despite privation, death, dangers, and the concerns for the future, the early colonists found reason to rejoice. They exhibited a degree of contentment, a gratitude for what they had rather than resentment for what they had lost. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Weekday Fiction Fix-The Girl Who Could See by Kara Swanson

All her life Fern has been told she is blind to reality—but, what if she is the only one who can truly see? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

And Then There Is Thanksgiving

So often, when Thanksgiving rolls around, which it does in the US every fourth Thursday in November, the question arises: what are you thankful for? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Holidays And Celebrations – Reprise

Holidays and celebrations seem to be a staple in society. Many pagan cultures held festivals and commemorations, some connected to their religious beliefs, and certainly Western society under the influence of Christianity fostered holidays consistent with the tenets of their faith. Consequently, novels that incorporate familiar festivities seem anchored in reality. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

It’s Not The Holiday You Think It Is – Reprise

I’m not suggesting Christians should have “our holiday” and non-Christians, “theirs.” But it seems pretty clear, if Christians don’t celebrate the Reformation, no one else will. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday – Terra Soul by S. J. Abraham

Everything should be great for Ayla, but it’s not. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Ghosts . . . In The Bible?

Ghost stories, to me, are much like demon and angel stories. Real angels and demons do exist, but few stories stick to the Biblical narrative that show us what those supernatural beings are like. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

When Is Horror Too Much?

Believers of old did not shy away from horror. Hardly! Some of our most loved hymns are based on a premise of what we today consider to be horror. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fantasy and The Depiction Of Evil

In fantasy, choosing against God can look like eating Turkish Delight or keeping a ring you set out to destroy. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Evil And The One Ring To Rule Them All

Evil is one of the more compelling topics of theology, literature, and philosophy. Does evil exist? If so, where did it come from? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

When Monsters Change Sides

Some creatures are imaginary. I think of unicorns and heffelumps and vampires and zombies. Or orcs or elves or hobbits. Some of these beings have a basis in history. For instance dragons are mentioned in the Bible. At least one […] · Rebecca LuElla Miller

For Me . . . Examining Our Focus

The question is: do any of the things we love become the thing we live for? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Victory

Who wants to read about death, disability, disease, or defeat? Sure, we have stories that contain all those things, but the great thing about speculative literature is that it pits life, ability, strength, and victory against the things that ravage […] · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Living In A Celebrity Culture

A few years back I attended a course at Mount Hermon Christian Writers’ Conference about promotion. One part of the class dealt with the hesitation many Christian writers feel toward self-promotion. The speaker gave what I believed to be an […] · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Speculative Stories, The Eclipse, And Other Rare Space Phenomena

What I find interesting is that a solar eclipse or other such space events do not find their way into more stories, either science fiction or fantasy. · Rebecca LuElla Miller

What Does Self-publishing Accomplish?

Promotion remains the fly in the honey pot of self-publishing success. How can a writer distinguish himself from all the other books—traditional, small press,and self-published—that are out there? · Rebecca LuElla Miller

Fiction Friday: Frayed By Kerry Nietz

Frayed by Kerry Nietz is the winner of the Realm Award Book of the Year. · Rebecca LuElla Miller
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