Writing Articles

Self-Publishing/Christian Spec-Fic Trends

• Demonizing Self-Publishing for the Faith? – A response to E. Stephen Burnett’s Three Scriptural Cautions Against Self-Publishing
• Selling Ourselves Short: Speculative Fiction in the Christian Bookstores
• Shelving Our Faith: Are Bookstore Trends a Reflection of USAmerican Christianity? And Should We Be Concerned?
• Christian Speculative Fiction Authors and Where To Find Them
• Rejection Letters & Why I Write What I Write

Writing Christian Fiction

• What Is Christian Speculative Fiction? And how Christian does it need to be?
• Oh God, You Goddess?? Portraying God in Christian Speculative Fiction
• Christian Speculative Fiction and the Biblical Boundary Problem – How far can we speculate?
• The Shape of Things To Come, or Faith-Based Sci-Fi As Exploratory Apologetic Re-Revisited – Or things I’d like to see Christian speculative fiction explore.
• Life Without Plastic: Writing Believable Christian Characters
• Spiritual Character Development & Avoiding the ‘Testimony Fiction’ Trap
• @#%*!!, or Dirty Words & the Christian Author – Part 1
• Haters Gonna Hate, or Dirty Words & the Christian Author – Part 2
• The Final Insult, or Dirty Words & the Christian Author – Part 3 [Coming soon]
• How To Cut 33,500 Words From Your Novel Without Checking Into An Asylum
• Are We Alone? or, Extraterrestrial Life and the Christian Author – Part 1
• Can Aliens Be Saved? or Extraterrestrial Life and the Christian Author – Part 2
• Faith and Zombies: Does Zombie Fiction Have A Place In Christianity?
• Origin Stories: Indie Novelist Tony Breeden – (off-site) How the Church tends to deal with creativity and wonder Versus how it should be viewed in light of the Bible.
• Size Does Matter: Writing and Drawing to Scale When Your Characters Are Larger-than-Life
• Overcoming Writer’s Block: A Process Analysis Essay
• Tony Breeden on Story Evangelism – An article on the question of whether Christian fiction should evangelize.