New here. :)

Hey everyone. I signed-up a while back, then just rediscovered this forum recently. I haven't been on many forums recently, as a lot of my free time is spent writing. Just thought I would take a break and see what some fellow Christians were writing. We really need more Christian writers out there. I just got my first Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy novel published and I'm working on book two of the series right now. Anyone who is interested can click down on my homepage link to check it out.

Who else here is working on Christian Science Fiction or Fantasy novels and what are they about? I'm interested in what my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ are coming up with. The market seems to have very little sci-fi beyond end times fiction right now.

Anyone?

Hey,everybody. Thanks for the responses.

I find the main times I have writers' block is when I'm not right with the Lord, like having known sin in my life, not that that is what you are experiencing. It is just like that for me. Usually my writing flows when I'm right with Him. Well, "usually," but not always.

I will look over some of the other writing threads when I get a chance. The Paladin idea sounds cool.

My book is titled Black Storm Rising and is the first book of the Orianus Creation Series. It is a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy. If you click on my "homepage" button below you can check it out. I have some excerpts from the book that you can click on. They are jpgs of the actual book pages, so you may have some browsers that shrink them when they load. I've been told this by others, and they said that by right-clicking on them, there is an option to enlarge them to proper size. My browser loads them fine. All the details about the novel are on my site and also a link to the book at Amazon.com. It is 376 pages in 6X9 format with the smaller mass market paperback size of font. The text was almost 176,000 words and would have gone over 500 pages in the larger font, and cost a lot more.

I'm also interested in learning more about the add-ons. Will it be published when you are finished?

Do any of you have anything published or even a manuscript written? I would like to check out what you all have.

Shane

Thanks for the welcome everyone. I haven't been able to get online here much lately, as I have a lot going on right now. I am up to 82,222 words on my second novel, and the people at Amazon have finally posted my excerpts and info on my book's page. I really need to be doing some editing right now.

I see a lot of interesting ideas that you all have. It justs takes not giving up, and constantly refining your writing to finally have something print-worthy. The cost to publish a book has dropped significantly now, with the advent of computerized publishing.

That reminds me, are there any astronomy buffs on here that may know of a star located within the constellation Orion, which is comparable to our Sun in brightness and size?

Thanks, if you do.

About the seven or eight authors-- maybe you all could pick a pen name to represent the whole group, then list the members in the book's introduction. Just a thought.

Shane

That's true about the nebula.

All of the major stars of the constellation are huge and bright compared to our Sun, so what I really need is a smaller, Sun-size star that falls within the constellation, preferably near the belt.

Shane