Month: January 2009
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Passages: Virginia Ramsey
Virginia Ramsey is one of the key characters in the Seventh World Trilogy. She makes her first appearance in the passage below. This scene is special to me because it was the very first scene written in Worlds Unseen. I jotted it down on a scratchpad when I wasn’t even sure what the story would…
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Whom Readest Thou? Book of Names 3
Today wraps up my first blog tour with CSFF. Thanks everyone for your comments and participation–your answers to my question yesterday are fascinating. When I first visited Dean’s HiddenLands.net, I was struck by the beginning of his “About Me” page: Dean Barkley Briggs is an author, father of eight, and prone to twisting his ankle…
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Why Writest Thou? – Book of Names 2
In yesterday’s post I touched on Dean Briggs’ personal reasons for writing The Book of Names (and its sequel, Corus the Champion, due out July 2009). I started reading the first few chapters of Corus last night and was struck by the poem that begins the book: What if sorrow was a doorway, And memory,…
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The Book of Names: CSFF Blog Tour
First, an introduction: a week or so ago, I joined the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour group, which means that I have access to review copies of upcoming Christian speculative fiction and that I get to participate in promoting those books. I was too late to get a copy of the book I’m…
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To Love and to Honour: A Review of Robin McKinley’s “Beauty”
“I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour, but few people except perhaps the minister who had baptized all three of us remembered my given name.” As a very young child, Honour renames herself “Beauty,” a nickname which sticks despite the fact that she is hardly the…