Jeffrey Overstreet is not just a novelist.
That “just” is not meant in any way derogatory; sometimes I wish I was just a novelist. But Overstreet, like me, writes a lot more than fiction, and I’m willing to bet his fiction is coloured by the attentive finger he keeps on the pulse of popular fiction.
This month the CSFF Blog Tour is touring Cyndere’s Midnight, which the author says has “echoes from Beauty and the Beast … although this version has more than one beauty, and a whole pack of beasts.” Like last month’s Book of Names, I came too late to the tour to get a copy of Cyndere’s Midnight, but the story intrigues me so much that I plan to rectify that through a visit to Books-a-Million today. It’s about a grieving widow who joins up with a cursed beastman to save the race that killed her husband. Sound pretty cool? Yeah, I thought so too.
In the meantime, I checked out Jeffrey Overstreet’s Web site and blog. Guests are greeted by a welcome message that invites them to “consider and discuss movies, music, literature, culture, faith, and Jeffrey’s books,” and a quick look through the site reveals lots of links, reviews, and discussions, on everything from the faith of U2 front man Bono to what happens to Narnia when you take Christ out of it. Overstreet writes movie reviews for Christianity Today and Image, a journal of faith and the arts which I’ve only recently discovered (and where I’m planning to send a short story soon).
I’m happy to make his acquaintance, and I urge you to do so as well. If you’re looking for Christian perspectives on the culture, his site looks like a pretty good place to get them.
By tomorrow I hope I will have started Cyndere’s Midnight, so I’ll be posting more book-specific thoughts then. Our regularly scheduled programming will be back next week :).
Here are the links to the other tour participants:
Brandon Barr
Keanan Brand
Rachel Briard
Melissa Carswell
Valerie Comer
Amy Cruson
CSFF Blog Tour
Stacey Dale
D. G. D. Davidson
Shane Deal
Jeff Draper
April Erwin
Karina Fabian
Andrea Graham
Todd Michael Greene
Katie Hart
Timothy Hicks
Jason Isbell
Jason Joyner
Kait
Carol Keen
Magma
Rebecca LuElla Miller
Eve Nielsen
Nissa
Wade Ogletree
John W. Otte
John Ottinger
Steve Rice
Crista Richey
Alice M. Roelke
Chawna Schroeder
James Somers
Rachel Starr Thomson
Robert Treskillard
Steve Trower
Speculative Faith
Fred Warren
Jill Williamson
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