In adapting a screenplay into a novel, what’s the author’s major challenge?
The challenge is to be 100 percent true to the movie and yet still develop a compelling part of a larger storyline that’s not in the movie.
For those of you who have been patiently waiting for a new Randy Alcorn novel, you’re in for a treat: his new novel Courageous, written with Alex and Stephen Kendrick, released August 1!
One of the most frequent questions I get asked on my Facebook page is, “Will there be another Ollie Chandler story, a follow up to Deception?” People want to know what happened to Ollie and if he ever came to know the Lord.
For a long time Christians were reticent to enter the field of fiction writing. Although fiction had been popular in the secular field for a long time, it was sparse in Christian publishing. The popularity of authors Frank Peretti and then later Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins certainly opened up the door much wider for acceptance of Christian fiction.
I’m often asked why I use the term “Elyon” in reference to God in my novels. Though I am comfortable making up names for men and angels for the purposes of fiction, I would not presume to make up a name for God. That’s why I chose a name that, while unfamiliar to many people, is specifically revealed in Scripture.
Here are the winners from the "fiction for you and a friend" giveaway on Randy’s blog. Each of the three winners will receive a Randy Alcorn fiction book of their choice, as well as a fiction book to pass on to a friend or use as an outreach.
Hi, I'm Stephanie Anderson, promotions director at EPM, and this month's giveaway is a double feature: three randomly-drawn winners will receive a fiction book of their choice, and a fiction book of their choice to give as an outreach or share with a friend! (Click here to browse and learn more about Randy's fiction books, including Deadline, Dominion, Deception, Safely Home, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrin's Letters, and The Ishbane Conspiracy.)
Do you love the smell of an old book? Just finished a delightful rereading Out of the Silent Planet, Space Trilogy Series, the first C. S. Lewis fiction I read when I was a new teenage Christian in 1970 (The Problem of Pain was my first Lewis nonfiction). It’s the first of his space trilogy, and I’m about to read again Perelandra (alternative Brit title: Voyage to Venus).
The June giveaway is now closed. Click here to see if your name was drawn as a winner.
Before I get to this month’s giveaway, I wanted to let you know that you can now sign up to follow Randy Alcorn on both Facebook and Twitter. They're a great way to keep up to date with what Randy is up to, and also to interact with other readers.
On to the giveaway: this time around we’re offering blog readers the chance to win a fiction book of their choice.
Here’s the books you can choose from ...
Here’s the winners from this month’s book giveaway! Each of the three winners will receive a signed copy of Deadline.
The randomly drawn winners are:
1) trumanfalkner
2) bdsolum [at] paulbunyan.net (posted as anonymous)
3) btylerellis [at] hotmail.com (posted as anonymous)
We also would like to give away some more copies of Deadline to a few others that entered the giveaway:
Marla Taviano
Deborah-Ann Archary
Bruce & Kathi
Clif
All winners, please e-mail me as soon as possible at stephanie@epm.org with your mailing address and who you would like the book signed to.
Thank you ...
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