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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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Abide in My Love
This morning I read John 15:9-12 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept the Father’s commandments, and abide in his love . . . This is my commandment, That ye…
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Raven’s Ladder: A Review
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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Halfway Awake
I have been up for two hours, but I’m only halfway awake. Some days it’s just really hard for me to stop sleeping, even after I’m vertical and have eaten and studied my Bible and gone through the whole morning routine. I suppose being up until nearly 2:00 a.m. doesn’t help. This morning I hoped…
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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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Painful Perfection
I’ve been reading the Epistle to the Hebrews for the last few days, and yesterday was struck by the way God chose to perfect Jesus. If the Bible didn’t say that Jesus had to be made perfect, I wouldn’t believe it; I would believe that He was already totally perfect when He got here. But…