The Hard Choice to Do Good (Building A Better Christian Novel Pt 1)

I review Christian books, mostly nonfiction ones but I do get a Christian Fiction novel or two each month. Occasionally I'll get one that I enjoy, and frequently I'll give 3 or 4 stars just because I know the author means well and it's not too terrible. However, most of the time I'm just not …

Good Knight Tales by C.S. Fritz

Although I'm past the age where most people read children's picture books, I enjoy picking one up occasionally. I find the best ones have something in them that adults need to remember. Sometimes they remind me not to be so concerned about being in control and looking dignified. Sometimes they simply present things in a …

In which I made a strange film…

I mentioned two weeks ago that I've been working on a short story collection to release over Halloween. In the process of doing that, I decided to make up a writer who "created" these stories which I was simply editing and narrating. However, to do THAT, I had to invent information about this other writer, …

The Mission of the Body of Christ by Russ Ramsey

I have an odd relationship with the book of Acts. I was initially exposed to Acts in a fourth-grade Sunday School class. The teacher in charge of the class liked to show a 3-hour movie made in the 80's which told the story verbatim from the NIV translation. There were a few occasions where the …

Tapes from the Crawlspace: An Audio Project

This October, I will be releasing Tapes from the Crawlspace, a series of short stories over YouTube, one story for each day leading up to Halloween. To give you an idea what this series will be like, I've written a self-interview, which I'm providing for blog followers and anyone else who may be interested: How …

More of my worst book blurbs (and some by other people)

Yesterday I tweeted the last of fifty deliberately bad book blurbs describing speculative fiction stories in, well, the worst way possible. I had a lot of fun doing this, it gave me a chance to experiment with satire and humor in ways I hadn't been able to before. I also had a lot of fun …

6 Books to Read After the Hobbit

Today, September 2, is a sad day for J.R.R. Tolkien fans. It marks the day he passed away, full of life and accomplishments (including a Nobel Prize nomination). Plenty of people talk about The Lord of the Rings and its impact on literature, but not many realize how many smaller-scale stories he wrote. Along with …