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Saturday
Jul022011

Handling Religion in Novels

I'm Down Under over at Megan Burke's blog, The Literary Life. I've written a guest post about some of the tricks I employed to handle writing religion in fiction ...

Everyone thought I was crazy for wanting to use Christians [in a fantasy], I mean that automatically makes the novel Christian fiction, right?

No.

I did not intentionally set out to make Woerld a mirror of Earth; however, once I reached that point, the first thing I wanted to do was avoid stereotypes ... [read more here]

And don't forget that we are STILL taking entries of flash fiction with AWESOME prizes including the chance to win a query critique or a 25 or 50 page critique from my agent Weronika Janczuk. Now who doesn't want to wow a literary agent with your prose? Rules are here.

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