Storyteller's Workshop

Story Tellers a course in writing a story celebrating Christ

February 27 thru April 3

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God.
He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,
but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over
God's business. - Flannery O'Connor

Parables and stories have been hallmarks to Christian culture, since before Christ’s ministry, and it continues today. Whether you've been dreaming of becoming a published writer since childhood, stomped on your own novel writing process or just want to learn a new hobby, this six-week tutorial will give you the basic building blocks to create a compelling story. Assignments include a story idea, scene building primer, a character sketch, an outline, a story and a revision. Instructor: Dee Stewart. Spaces are limited. Register today!

INSTRUCTOR Dee Stewart is editor of Christian Fiction News and hosts Atlanta’s Third Thursdays: Altartainment Event Series. She's written for Spirit Led Woman, Gospel Today, Spirit Led Writer and Precious Times Magazines. Her short story, "Straddling the Fence," is featured in Infuze Magazine's Best of 2005 Christian Shorts Anthology. She can be contacted at vidae@writing.com.

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Christian Manga

Today I'm taking things light: reading two novels, revising a short story and travelling the christian Manga blogosphere. Christian Fiction Blog talked about Christian Manga last year and this year, it turns out, that someone has begun a Christian Mangasite.

 

 

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Christian Manga

Today I'm taking things light: reading two novels, revising a short story and travelling the christian Manga blogosphere. Christian Fiction Blog talked about Christian Manga last year and this year, it turns out, that someone has begun a Christian Mangasite.

 

 

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Alaska Twilight

WestBow Press

Women in Faith Selection

 ALASKA TWILIGHT

by Colleen Coble

Release date 3/7/06

Publishers Weekly Review  of Alaska Twilight...

 

Veteran Christian romance novelist Coble sets her latest story in Alaska, where protagonist Haley Walsh goes to take still photographs for a celebrity nature documentarian's foray into bear country. There Haley faces painful childhood memories of her sister's death and her parents' rejection. As bear biologist Tank Lassiter leads photographer Nowak's team through the wild, he and Haley quickly forge a strong connection that each tries to fight for fear of getting hurt. Before the main characters know it, secrets about the deaths of Tank's wife and Haley's parents emerge. The novel's romantic and suspense plots are strictly by the numbers. The two romantic leads dutifully go through all the motions of denying, then fearing, then finally embracing their attraction, and while the identity of the primary villain is not telegraphed, many other plot points are. Several Christian fiction clich s are in full bloom as well: a city-dwelling protagonist learns important lessons in a small town, a non-Christian converts just in time to make an appropriate romantic partner for a mature Christian, and unsavory female characters are marked as such either by their unattractiveness or sexually provocative behavior. But Coble's prose is competent, and readers who crave a light, though formulaic, Christian novel will not be disappointed. (Mar. 7) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

If anyone has read this novel, please comment on how you felt about it?

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Ask Dee: Let the Lion Eat Straw

Over at Christian Fiction Blog I started a segment called "Ask Dee." You can email me and ask me anything related to christian literature and publishing and I would try to answer your question on the blog. I am transporting Ask Dee over here, since Christian Fiction will eventually become this sites book reviewing blog.

 

Today I received a question from Samara Joseph.

 

Hi Dee: 

 

I ran across your blog researching our bookclub's February selection,
Let the Lion Eat Straw.  Perhaps you can help me understand some of the
symbolism used in this novel. In particular, what is the signifance of Abeba's stepfather?  And the numbers?

Read here to get my answers to Samara's questions.

 

Related articles on this topic:

 Faith & Feeling: Creating Conflict

A Literary Paradise: Let the Lion Eat Straw

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Touched By Love Contest

Submission deadline: April 1, 2006

The purpose of the TOUCHED BY LOVE Contest is to inspire, motivate, and reward unpublished authors of inspirational romance. TOUCHED BY LOVE is the premier inspirational contest for the unpublished.

Eligibility: Participation is open to all unpublished authors and to any author not published in the past three years. All work must be the author's original work. Entrant must retain all rights to the entry and not have granted any of them to a publisher or other party by the contest entry deadline. The official entry form and fee must accompany each submission.

Inspirational Romance Categories: Contemporary (under 75, 000 words), Contemporary (over 75,000 words) and Historical

Click the icon to learn more about the contest.

 

 

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Dee's St. Valentine's Day Kit

For fun, today I thought I would list some of the top love stories on the web for your enjoyment, as well as my the contents of my very own Valentine's Kit, which includes movies, chocolate, poems and more fun.  

 

3 great love stories online:

1. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Ubbervilles

 

An excerpt from Chapter 24(one of my favs)...

 

How very lovable her face was to him. yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as deep and speaking he had seen before, and cheeks perhaps as fair; brows as arched, a chin and throat almost as shapely; her mouth he had seen nothing to equal on the face of the earth. To a young man with the least fire in him that little upward lift in the middle of her red top lip was distracting, infatuating, maddening. He had never before seen a woman's lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow. Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no--they were not perfect. And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

 

2. Edith Warton's The Fulness Of Life at EastoftheWeb

 

3. My short story, Mocha Lee.(still troubleshooting the pic)

 

My Valentine Kit must haves:

 

Click here to read my must haves!

 

 

 

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