Category: CSFF Blog Tour
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CSFF Tour: By Darkness Hid
It’s Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour time again! (Say THAT five times fast!) This month’s book (sent to me free by the publisher for review, though as a Canadian I don’t think I’m actually required to disclose that) is By Darkness Hid by Jill Williamson. Classic storyline, great world-building, strong characterization — there’s…
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The Man, the Beast, and the Nature of Desire (Raven’s Ladder, Day 4)
The CSFF Tour for this month is officially over, but before we leave Raven’s Ladder, I want to explore one of its themes. I also have a book to give away, so it’s time for a contest! Scroll all the way down to the bottom of this post for contest rules and deadline. Warning: there…
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Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet, Part 2 (Raven’s Ladder Day 3)
And yesterday’s discussion continues, this time touching on editing, plot, fantasy as a genre, and influences. Enjoy! Rachel: You once mentioned on Facebook that copyediting is one of your favourite parts of revision: I think you said you would turn the whole Auralia Thread into a long prose-poem if you could. Can you comment on…
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Interview with Jeffrey Overstreet, Part 1 (Raven’s Ladder, Day 2)
A slight change to the planned schedule: as I revisited this interview, I realized that it is long and rich and worthy of being posted over more than one day. So this week my touring days are going to extend to Thursday, methinks :). Today we discuss allegory, art, religion, and shockwyrms. The interview begins:…
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CSFF Tour: Raven’s Ladder
Raven’s Ladder is the third book in the four-book Auralia Thread, a startlingly poetic, deeply spiritual fantasy series that begins with Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight The story dawns on a displaced people: The people of House Abascar, led by the young king Cal-Raven and his faithful guardsman Tabor Jan, have moved into a network…
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Marketing in the Internet Age: North! Or Be Eaten Day 3
While we have been blogging about Andrew Peterson, Andrew Peterson has been blogging about us. My favourite thing about CSFF Tours (even ones like this, which I hardly qualify as participating in because I didn’t read the book) is author involvement. Authors used to be sort of mythic. They didn’t live on the same planet…
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Childlikeness and Storytelling (North! Or Be Eaten, Day 2)
I haven’t, as I said yesterday, read North! Or Be Eaten, nor have I read Andrew Peterson’s first book. I’ve now read a bit of his blogging at The Rabbit Room (and intend to keep visiting long after this tour is over). I’m struck by Andrew’s vision of Christian art. In “About the Rabbit Room,”…
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North! Or Be Eaten: CSFF Blog Tour
Good morning, world! (OK, fine, technically it’s afternoon. But I have a morning sort of spirit today, so good morning it is!) Today marks the start of the first CSFF Blog Tour I’ve done since Haunt of Jackals, and alas and alack, this tour has gone awry. Our Fearless Leader’s computer crashed after I sent…
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Haunt of Jackals: The Conversation Continues
Last week when I blogged on Haunt of Jackals for the CSFF Blog Tour, I was hoping to stir up conversation. Well, thanks to everyone who jumped in with many different viewpoints, conversation has been stirred! In fact, Eric Wilson, the author of Haunt, was gracious enough to offer a response of his own. If…
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God in Fiction (Haunt of Jackals, Day 3)
As my review made clear yesterday, I was bothered by the representation of Christ in Haunt of Jackals. In some ways I found it more pagan than Christian. But that brings me back to a question I’ve asked myself a thousand times since I began writing: how can we faithfully represent God in fiction? As…