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This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing AURALIA’S COLORS (WaterBrook Press September 4, 2007) by Jeffrey Overstreet ABOUT THE AUTHOR: By day, Jeffrey Overstreet writes about movies at LookingCloser.org and in publications like Christianity Today, Paste, and Image. His adventures in cinema are chronicled in his book Through a Screen Darkly. By night, he composes fictional worlds all his own. Living in Shoreline, Washington, with his wife, Anne, a poet, he is a senior staff writer for Response Magazine at Seattle Pacific University. Auralia’s Colors is his first novel. He is now hard at work on many new stories, including three more strandsRead More →

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Today, the CSFF tour is wrapping up on Stephen Lawhead‘s latest in the King Raven trilogy, Scarlet. I just *finally* got to “the end.” For those who don’t know, this is his retelling of Robin Hood, reset in the Welsh countryside during the very real turbulent times of 1080-1100 A.D, with the injustice of Forrest Law and the Church corrupted by power-hungry blasphemers. Let me say this was my first blush with Lawhead, and going in, I had only the vague notion that, based on what I’d heard from others, that Lawhead is one of the masters. For the most part, he lived up toRead More →

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Through Wednesday, the crew at the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy tour are tackling Scarlet, the second book of the Raven King (er, King Raven) trilogy by Stephen Lawhead. I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m hoping to have my own review up before the tour is over. For now, Grace Bridges has a perceptive review up at the Lost Genre Guild blog.

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Gentle reader, I wanted to share my husband’s thanksgiving thoughts with you: The following was read on my on my podcast: Yesterday at work, I began to think about my blessings and realized how much I truly have to be thankful for. So let’s begin. I’m thankful for a God who gives Grace to me as I seek to follow him day by day. Many times I fail, but he lifts me up. He is gracious and forgiving. He feeds me through His Word and grants me inspiration. He is the giver of all good things and the one to whom thanks ought to beRead More →

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  This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing THE YADA YADA PRAYER GROUP GETS DECKED OUT from Thomas Nelson (October 2, 2007) by Neta Jackson ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Neta Jackson’s award-winning Yada books have sold more than 350,000 copies and are spawning prayer groups across the country. She and her husband, Dave, are also an award-winning husband/wife writing team, best known for the Trailblazer Books–a 40-volume series of historical fiction –and Hero Tales: A Family Treasury of True Stories from the Lives of Christian Heroes (vols 1-4). Dave and Neta live in Evanston, Illinois, where for twenty-seven years they were part of RebaRead More →