Category: Fiction
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A Review – Tuck (Day 2)
What we know now as legend, old and familiar as the dusty books we read as children, began in the dark distance of the past as something else—as some truth we’ve changed until we remember things that never were and forget those that really happened. For every legend we love, another story lies buried somewhere,…
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Tuck – CSFF Blog Tour
As a writer, I’m commonly asked who my influences are. And ever since I was pulled heart over heels into The Paradise War , oh, many years ago now, I’ve named as chief among them Stephen R. Lawhead. In setting, in mood, in battle scenes, and in a sort of mythic vision of Christianity, he…
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Writing an Epic: An Interview with Marilyn Burns of Pendragon
Before I’d even seen Pendragon: Sword of His Father, I knew I wanted to interview its creators. Marilyn Burns, who stars as Wenneveria in the film but also handled other film creation aspects — from cowriting the score to designing costumes to helping with a million logistical details — was kind enough to grant me…
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Pendragon: Sword of His Father – A Review
Sometimes keeping a writer’s blog and having connections means you get perks, like when Home School Enrichment editor Jonathan Lewis (who moonlights as a Saxon infidel in epic homeschool films) pulled some strings and won me both a screening copy of Pendragon: Sword of His Father and an interview with Marilyn Burns, who did WAY…
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Heroes: A Wrap-Up — and Coming Next Week
Thanks to another great CSFF Blog Tour, it’s been a fascinating week around this blog. As I reviewed Blaggard’s Moon , I found myself faced with many things I could have said. I thought about writing on heroes — what they are in real life, what they are (and perhaps should be) in fiction. Blaggard’s…
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An Interview with Bryan Polivka
Brandon Barr, science fiction author and fellow CSFF Blog Tour member, loved Blaggard’s Moon. In his review he says, “I became a fan of Bryan Polivka’s storytelling when I first reviewed The Legend of the Firefish in 2007. After reading Blaggard’s Moon, I was left stirred spiritually and emotionally yet again. The best way I…
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The Relevance of Pirates – Blaggard’s Moon (Day 3)
Delaney spoke directly to the boy. “Dallis, son, this here’s Conch Imbry, and he’s a great pirate captain. Says he’ll save ye from the Cabeebs if ye’ll turn pirate right now. Otherwise — see that man with the gun there? Well, he’s gonna shoot ye dead. So now, son, ye got to decide whether to…
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A Review – Blaggard’s Moon (Day 2)
There are moments in our lives that change everything. Forks in the road. Accidents. Love at first sight. Death. Yup, that one changes everything. Forever. A lot of the time we don’t see those moments coming. Especially the last one. But Smith Delaney, the marooned pirate whose post-sitting ruminations open Blaggard’s Moon, can see Death…
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Blaggard’s Moon: CSFF Blog Tour
As I settle back in a leather-cushioned library chair, looking out the window at the traffic passing through the rain, I find myself thinking on many things. On books, which surround me here. On life, which of late has been challenging and exciting and even tragic. On pirates. I have to think on pirates, because…
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Interview with Allan Miller – Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow 3
Tonight, I’m privileged to wrap up the March CSFF tour with an interview with Allan Miller, one of the Miller Brothers, who took time out of a very busy schedule to first agree to a last-minute interview and then to thoughtfully answer my questions about art, allegory, homeschooling, and more! I really enjoyed my conversation…