Knighted by the Queen of Christian Fantasy

"The Best in Christian Science Fiction" is the title of Donita Paul’s Amazon review of my first novel, Flashpoint: Book One of the Underground. Ms Paul is the best selling Christian fantasy author since C.S. Lewis. She’s a retired school teacher who knows her literature.

This is a moment of which I’d never had the courage to dream.

Funny thing is, because Christian bookstore publishers, an elite group, cannot sell sci-fi, and because I’m published by a small independent press, less than a thousand copies of Flashpoint have sold.

I’m the head literary critiquer for a manuscript evaluation service. I’m a ghostwriter. Flashpoint’s been nominated for, finaled or placed first for four Christian fiction awards, including the coveted Clive Staples Award, where I’m competing against Donita herself, and Stephen Lawhead.

Flashpoint touches readers. But because Christian bookstores can’t effectively market sci-fi, the downturn in this economy has me losing my home.

That’s all right—if He cares for the birds of the air, I will survive. Book Two of the Underground will be released later in 2009. One day this genre’s fans will discover their favorite fiction online. Until then, they will keep shopping secular shelves.

Look for some Underground short fiction at the Wayfarer’s Journal and Double Edged Publishing free e-zines this year to tide-you-over until War of Attrition is released.

And, who knows . . . Legacy just may return.