It's that time of year again!

NaNoWriMo month starts 12:01 November 1st and runs through midnight, November 30th.

Your challenge is to start from scratch and write at least 50,000 words within 30 days.
Her'e your chance to start that novel you've put off, and keep promising you'll write some day. Well, someday is November 1st, and the choice to start is yours.

NaNoWriMo

Frank Creed's FLASHPOINT:Book One of the UNDERGROUND

(click on cover for Amazon link)

The Writers Cafe Press: www.thewriterscafe.com/projects.html
if readers want free shipping within the US and Canada, plus a signed copy of Flashpoint.

FLASHPOINT BLOG TOUR - DAY 3 PM (again)

Time for another LATE blog post. Fall Festival at school takes up a bit of your time.

Well, this is the final day for the Flashpoint Blog Tour. It's been fun to remember the story, and find out more about Calamity Kid and e-girl from the different blog sites, and the interviews with author Frank Creed. I found out that Flashpoint took ten years to publish, and hope readers won't have to wait that long to enjoy the sequel. I think it's really due out next year.

The characters don't seem to face as many temptations as most people, but I thought that was because they were 're-formed' and closer to living in the spirit of Him. It seems like life would much easier if it were easier to overcome temptations. I was curious about Calamity Kid's gamer background. If he won major game competitions under that name, wouldn't someone try to connect his new identity with his old gamer identity? Maybe that will be in the sequel.

Can't wait.

To learn more about Flashpoint, try these other blog tour sites:

Fantasy Thyme
jamessomers.blogspot.com
Write and Whine
Hoshi to Sakura
Wayfarer's Journal
BlogCritics Interview
Daniel I Weaver
Disturbing the Universe
Grace Bridges
Queen of Convolution
Virtual Tour de 'Net
Christian Fiction Review
BlogYellow30 Sci-Fi: Review
Yellow30 Sci-Fi: Interview
Back to the Mountains
MaryLu Tyndall
Cathi's Chatter

Frank Creed's FLASHPOINT:Book One of the UNDERGROUND

(click on cover for Amazon link)

The Writers Cafe Press: www.thewriterscafe.com/projects.html
if readers want free shipping within the US and Canada, plus a signed copy of Flashpoint.

FLASHPOINT BLOG TOUR - DAY 2 PM

Time for a LATE blog post.

Life gets ahead of you at times, and it takes a while to play catch up.

When Calamity Kid and e-girl leave their comfortable middle-class, suburban life style to escape the peacekeepers all their old priorities are thrown out the window. They lose their home their family, and their church. Luckily, what they haven't lost is their faith in God. He watches over them, even at their darkest time. The brother and sister team find all their old important places and things aren't as important as they had thought.

Flashpoint contains action and suspense, but it also contains family. CK and e-girl's parents are arrested as Fundi terrorists by the FBT. They jump to the wrong conclusion about a neighbor's son turning the church family in for reward. Instead, a close family member has sound them out for promises of riches from the One-World government.

Flashpoint also mentions forgiveness for past wrongs, no matter how horrible. With his 'awakened' eyesight, Calamity Kid sees the realitive for what he truely is inside; a creature in pain without hope from the One above. As a Sandman, CK, is held to a higher standard so he reaches out to the person who has wronged them the most.

More Flashpoint Blog Tours:

Fantasy Thyme
jamessomers.blogspot.com
Write and Whine
Hoshi to Sakura
Wayfarer's Journal
BlogCritics Interview
Daniel I Weaver
Disturbing the Universe
Grace Bridges
Queen of Convolution
Virtual Tour de 'Net
Christian Fiction Review
BlogYellow30 Sci-Fi: Review
Yellow30 Sci-Fi: Interview
Back to the Mountains
MaryLu Tyndall
Cathi's Chatter

WILDERKING BLOG TOUR - DAY 3

BARK OF THE BOG OWL
(Book 1 of the Wilderking Trilogy) by Jonathan Rogers

To purchase an autographed copy of this fine Middle-grade/YA fantasy, try: www.shop.jonathan-rogers.com

Turn up your speakers, and take a Journey to the Riverbottom Forrest,
Home of The WilderKing: http://www.wilderking.com/

This is the final blog tour day for Jonathan Roger's Bark of the Bog Owl. If you haven't had a chance to check out his Wilderking books, do yourself a favor and rush to your local bookstore and buy a copy or two; one for you and one for a friend. You'll be glad you did.

The book jackets are nicely illustrated with the look of a book from the swamp. That was one of the first things I noticed once I had a copy in hand. Bark of the Bog Owl's cover looks like an exotic animal skin binding. The cover is just a foretaste of the writing and story inside. As I mentioned in Day 2 of the book blog tour, the author brought the swamp and a cave to life for me. You could tell that he had spent some time around both.

For additional information, check out his website at http://www.wilderking.com ,
and the sites of the other blog participants:

Brandon Barr
Jim Black
Justin Boyer
Grace Bridges
Amy Browning
Jackie Castle
Valerie Comer
CSFF Blog Tour
D. G. D. Davidson
Chris Deanne
Janey DeMeo
Merrie Destefano or Alien Dream
Jeff Draper
April Erwin
Marcus Goodyear
Andrea Graham
Jill Hart
Katie Hart
Sherrie Hibbs
Christopher Hopper
Becca Johnson
Jason Joyner
Karen

WILDERKING BLOG TOUR - DAY 2

BARK OF THE BOG OWL
(Book 1 of the Wilderking Trilogy) by Jonathan Rogers

To purchase an autographed copy of this fine Middle-grade/YA fantasy, try: www.shop.jonathan-rogers.com

Turn up your speakers, and take a Journey to the Riverbottom Forrest,
Home of The WilderKing: http://www.wilderking.com/

Bark of the Bog Owl is the first book in the WilderKing Trilogy.

About The Bark of the Bog OwlEchoing from the riverbottom forest, The Bark of the Bog Owl speaks of wild places still untamed, of quests not yet pursued, of great deeds not yet done.

About The Secret of the Swamp KingThe Secret of the Swamp King continues the story of Aidan's adventures in Corenwald.

About The Way of the WilderkingThe Way of the Wilderking concludes the Wilderking Trilogy with Aidan's return from the swamps and an epic battle for the future of Corenwald.

The hardest part of finishing Bark of the Bog Owl was waiting to start reading the next book. As someone who has never been around a swamp, the book drew me right into the scene. Jonathan Rogers certainly has a feel for the area. An underground scene in the book vividly paints what it must feel to explore a darkened cave, and wade through icy water. Dobro Turtlebane, one of the Feechiefolk, brings to life a fun-loving free spirit that just happens to wear stinky swamp mud and a turtle helmet.
Of course, it's not all fun and games for Aidan Errolson. As the youngest of four sons he's expected to watch the sheep and take care of jobs his older siblings don't want. The threat of Pyrthen invasion hangs over the land. So far Corenwald has fought back the evil Pyrthens four times. Will a new peace treaty with their strongest enemies, who mock the One True God, lead to a loss of all Aidan and his family hold dear?

Read Bark of the Bog Owl and find out for yourself. It's a great story from beginning to end.

Check out these other fine sites to learn more:

Brandon Barr
Jim Black
Justin Boyer
Grace Bridges
Amy Browning
Jackie Castle
Valerie Comer
CSFF Blog Tour
D. G. D. Davidson
Chris Deanne
Janey DeMeo
Merrie Destefano or Alien Dream
Jeff Draper
April Erwin
Linda Gilmore
Marcus Goodyear
Andrea Graham
Jill Hart
Katie Hart
Sherrie Hibbs
Christopher Hopper
Becca Johnson
Jason Joyner
Karen

Frank Creed's FLASHPOINT:Book One of the UNDERGROUND

The Writers Cafe Press: www.thewriterscafe.com/projects.html
if readers want free shipping within the US and Canada, plus a signed copy of Flashpoint.

FLASHPOINT BLOG TOUR - DAY 1.5

Interview with author Frank Creed:

How did you get started in writing?

I first knew I wanted to write mine was eight years old. My divorced working mom sent me to a program at the public library. Once I learned how to read, I loved it. It fascinated me. Among my strongest memories of elementary education were the libraries in the schools I attended.

What led you into Christian speculative fiction?

I've never thought about that. As a lad growing up in the Chicago suburbs, mid-1970s, there was network television, PBS, and a couple of UHF stations. The best station in town was an independent known as WGN. If if you have Direct-TV satellite television, I think that's Channel 300 something. On Friday nights I get to stay up late to watch a show with my mom called Creature Feature—the name of the show, not the name of my mom—that's a whole other issue I'm not going to get into :) My first exposure to speculative fiction was black-and-white movies of the mummy, as well as, Frankenstein, and Dracula.

Around the same time, an uncle bought me a fancy hard copy boxed version of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. I had it for years before I finally read it and fell in love with fantasy. My first exposure to science fiction was probably 1976: Star Wars.

Then came Dungeons & Dragons, and so many other role-playing-games. My creativity was fired.

Mom, of course, loved that my sister and I were both readers. Whenever she took us to a bookstore and we found something we would want to read, she'd buy it for us. When we went into a regular bookstore, I could find speculative fiction. In the Christian bookstores however, all I could ever find was Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy. It wasn't long before I stopped looking for speculative fiction in Christian bookstores.

There's so much creativity in speculative fiction with which to present the Gospel, it is a tragedy that publishers have completely neglected the genre. Many other worldviews package philosophy in speculative fiction. Why does it take us so long to figure these kinds of things out? So many souls can be reached . . .

What gave you the idea for Flashpoint?

It began in 19 years, back at the Iran Hostage Crisis. Reporters came on the television and talk about Fundamentalist Terrorists. At Lutheran church Sunday school, they said the Bible was fundamentally true, and that we were fundamentalists. That really bothered me. That was the real beginning.

Do you have many planned Flashpoint sequels?

If hard pressed I could force it into a trilogy. Writing in this setting with these characters is so much fun, I hope it lasts longer than that. But the business reality of fiction is that books must sell. Right now Christian science fiction is about as popular as stuffing one's toe, so we'll just see where things go.

I am currently writing Book Two of the Underground: War of Attrition (hopefully to be released summer '08 by The Writers’ Café Press). Also, The Writers’ Café Press has contracted Mike Roop, a role-playing game designer and member of The Underground, to write an RPG based on Flashpoint, in collaboration with me. It is due for release late spring 2008 and I am very excited about it. Roop designed a prototype a few months back that was extremely impressive. If anyone is interested in checking out the prototype and commenting on it, email me for a copy (admin@frankcreed.com).

Thanks Frank.

Official website: http://www.frankcreed.com/
Writers blog: http://frankcreed.blogspot.com/
Book review blog: http://afrankreview.blogspot.com/
Shoutlife page at: http://www.shoutlife.com/
His new book website: http://www.blogger.com/www.booksoftheunderground.com

Blog Tour Participants:

Fantasy Thyme
jamessomers.blogspot.com
Write and Whine
Hoshi to Sakura
Wayfarer's Journal
BlogCritics Interview
Daniel I Weaver
Disturbing the Universe
Grace Bridges
Queen of Convolution
Virtual Tour de 'Net
Christian Fiction Review Blog
Yellow30 Sci-Fi: Review
Yellow30 Sci-Fi: Interview
Back to the Mountains
MaryLu Tyndall
Cathi's Chatter

October Book Blog Tour for
Frank Creed's FLASHPOINT:Book One of the UNDERGROUND

The Writers Cafe Press: www.thewriterscafe.com/projects.html
if readers want free shipping within the US and Canada, plus a signed copy of Flashpoint.

FLASHPOINT BLOG TOUR - DAY 1

In the year 2036, the One World Government has taken complete control. The only remaining enemy of the State, are the new terrorists - Fundamental Christians or Fundis.
Dave and Jen Williams barely escape capture as the Peacekeepers round up their church members for reconditioning. Transferred underground, the two join a Saint cell and with newly 'awakened' bodies, take on the new names of Calamity Kid and e-girl to fight the One World Government and spread a message of hope.

This is a fast read. Not because of few pages, but becasue it is such a page-turner. Plenty of action, and quick dialogue. Frank paints a bleak picture of the future when one turns from God and places ones' faith in mankind. Colorful characters like Calamity Kid, e-girl, and Legacy stand out like beacons of hope in the drab, hopeless world of the Peacekeepers and the FBT.

BOOK TRAILER:

WILDERKING BLOG TOUR - DAY 1

BARK OF THE BOG OWL
(Book 1 of the Wilderking Trilogy) by Jonathan Rogers

To purchase an autographed copy of this fine Middle-grade/YA fantasy, try: www.shop.jonathan-rogers.com

Twelve-year-old Aidan Errolson longs for the adventure and glory for battle,
but feels destined for a life of quiet shepherding on his family estate. At least
things go this way until he hears the bark of the bog owl. Plenty of people
claim to know someone else who claims to have heard the rare creature,
but Aidan is the first in years to hear one himself. The siteing launches an adventure that catpults the young shepard into the limelight at the King's court.

Loosely based upon the story of King David's humble beginnings, Bark of the
Bog Owl developes the rich history of a small land surrounded by the enemy.
While Aidan's country of Corenwald follows the one true God, their enemy -
the Pyrethen Empire - worship reptile gods.

Is twelve-year-old Aidan Corenwald's deliverer - the Wilderking - or the last free Corenwalkd generation?

Well worth the read. Jonathan Rogers will have you rooting for the young
shepherder and his impossible dream.

Jonathan's Webpage (checkout his intro and videos)
http://www.wilderking.com/

Wilderking Blog Tour Participants

Brandon Barr
Jim Black
Justin Boyer
Grace Bridges
Amy Browning
Jackie Castle
Valerie Comer
CSFF Blog Tour
D. G. D. Davidson
Chris Deanne
Janey DeMeo
Merrie Destefano or Alien Dream
Jeff Draper
April Erwin
Marcus Goodyear
Andrea Graham
Jill Hart
Katie Hart
Sherrie Hibbs
Christopher Hopper
Becca Johnson
Jason Joyner
Karen
Dawn King
Mike Lynch
Rachel Marks
Karen McSpadden
Melissa Meeks
Rebecca LuElla Miller
Eve Nielsen
John W. Otte
Lyn Perry
Deena Peterson
Rachelle
Cheryl Russel
Ashley Rutherford
Hanna Sandvig
Chawna Schroeder
James Somers
Steve Trower
Speculative Faith
Donna Swanson
Daniel I. Weaver
Laura Williams
Timothy Wise