by Melissa J. Troutman | Dec 8, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
More gifts, more magic, more friends, more enemies, more adventures, more emotions, more themes, more stakes—more everything! Hang on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen, because once you open the cover of Lumen, the second installment of J. J. Fischer’s The...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Aug 11, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I can’t wait to tell you about J. J. Fischer’s newest book, just released in May! If you’re a fan of Pirates of the Caribbean, Laura Frantz, or C. S. Lewis (or all three), The Soul Mark is right up your alley with its Colonial-era swashbuckling, sweet (and...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Jun 9, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Heather FitzGerald has demonstrated herself to be a bold writer in the realm of Christian fantasy, and in this final installment of her Tethered World trilogy, The Genesis Tree, she writes her boldest story yet. The beginning could have been a little faster-paced, in...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Mar 10, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Sadie thought life couldn’t change any more than it did in The Tethered World, when she found out about her family’s ties with a secret world and ended up leading her siblings to that same world in order to rescue their parents. She was wrong. In the first few pages...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Jan 13, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Fairytale retellings are cool and all, but nothing is cooler (literally) than a fairytale retelling mashed with Greek myth in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. A world of gray, ice, and snow. A world where memories are currency. A world of power struggles, gifts, and...