Braden Russell

Welcome to the site, @foreverme Glad you found us. 🙂 What’s the premise of your current work-in-progress?

Just as a quick note, it is technically breaking the law to use a fake address for a mailing list. I like the idea of doing a forwarding address like Daeus recommends (and yes; you probably won’t even get any mail), but I would not recommend making one up.

1. What kind of magazines are you looking for? Art magazines? Writing magazines? Fiction magazines? Something else? The Christian Writers Market Guide has a great index of different publications to submit to if you’re looking for options.

2. The internet is great for this. Figure out who your ideal audience is (age, gender, interests, passions)…[Read more]

@princesswriter Welcome to the site! I’ll hold off on throwing any more questions your way, but am glad you joined us here. 🙂

@mark-kamibaya had a great thread on sci-fi a while back that touched on a lot of cliches… Well-worth reading: https://kingdompen.org/forums/topic/beginners-tips-for-writing-science-fiction/

Identical thoughts to @daeus Good premise, and if the entire story isn’t going to be as dark in the first chapters, you just want to include enough glimpses of light to indicate that. I don’t personally have a problem with dark, depressing stories when there’s a point to them, but you don’t want to unintentionally indicate that’s the type of story…[Read more]

@gabbyj I did–it was a great experience! It worked quite differently then than I believe it does now, but I learned a lot of Scripture passages through that and grew a lot because of it over these three years.

That’s great that you’ve been able to discover new authors through our interviews. 😀 I’m thrilled that we’re able to interview so many…[Read more]

@sleepwalkingmk Great question. I believe the details are currently being kept under-wraps, so to learn what Succession House is looking for, email Christy at cjsomerville@gmail.com. She’s pretty easy to talk to and will let you know what kind of auditions she’s looking for and what the contest will be like.

Welcome to the site @gabbyj! Love your profile pic. 🙂 I did the Bible Bee for the first four years of the competition but then graduated out of it when I left high school. xD

Who are your favorite fantasy authors?

Welcome to the site @singforjoy! Glad you found us. 🙂 I’m also a big fantasy fan and love listening to music soundtracks. My favorite is probably the Batman v Superman soundtrack (bad movie; fantastic music), but Winter Soldier and Chronicles of Narnia are both great soundtracks.

Welcome to the site @leilani-dove! Glad you found us. 🙂 I’m also a pretty big fantasy fan. Since it doesn’t seem like you’ve been asked yet, who are your favorite authors?

Hey @marliscarb! Welcome to the forum as one of our few non-fiction writers. 🙂 What book would you say has been most influential for you in your Christian walk (excepting the Bible)?

@dragon-snapper Fixed the post issue. This week’s been a fun week to be a web developer. 😛

This is awesome.

@mariposa This is fantastic. 😀

Tagging @the-real-kapeefer for good measure.

@amy-l-klob I’d recommend starting by introducing your protagonist, but I would be careful about having a slow lead-in to the actual story. You want to grab the audience’s attention in the first page. That doesn’t mean you need to immediately leap into the main plot of your novel, but you should be including some conflict and/or intrigue that…[Read more]

@sam-kowal Yeah, Dalinar’s character arc was amazing. Didn’t think Sanderson could top Kaladin’s in WoR, but he pretty much matched it. Yeah, Adolin seemed to get away with that, and I was also looking for some closure on the moral questions being raised regarding the morality of war. I suspect, though, that Sanderson at least plans on continuing…[Read more]

For a first time author, avoid going over 120k; 130k max if you absolutely have to. Once you become published, you can push the limit more (I just finished a 450k fantasy work that topped the NY bestselling list), but publishers aren’t willing to risk those sorts of word counts for unpublished authors.

@dragon-snapper What @daeus said. 🙂 Feel free to pop by again if you have any additional questions after watching it!

@sleepwalkingmk I think that’s a really good idea. Three EiLs are hard to fit into one book, so splitting it into two books seems like a wise move!