Countdown to REALM MAKERS

Two weeks, y’all! TWO weeks!!!

Realm Makers Conference & Expo: Exhibits, Creators, Fans
July 18-20, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI

Two weeks until Christian Creatives at all stages and from around the world gather to encourage, educate, celebrate, and enjoy each other. Realm Makers truly is my tribe, but not an exclusionary one. We’re eager to welcome new members into our company. I have been the newbie author, clueless to how much I didn’t know, and have been incredibly blessed by Realmies over the years. I’ve also loved opportunities to meet freshmen, share words that encouraged me, and walk the author’s path with them.

This year we’re expanding with Realm Makers Expo, an exciting fan convention celebrating creativity across fantasy and sci-fi books, gaming, comics, audio-drama, and film. The expo will offer free preview screenings, industry sessions with artists, panel discussions, and opportunities to meet your next favorite author!

One of my favorite Realm Maker experiences is meeting readers who become friends—people who’ve taken the dive into the World of Water’s Break and have enjoyed the ride. If this sounds like you, and we haven’t met, please reach out, especially if our paths cross.

Realm Makers EXPO, the largest Fan Con for Christian Storytellers
July 18-20, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI

What Kind of SCI is Your FI?

SPACE…
The final frontier.
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
Its five year mission:
- To explore strange new worlds
- To seek out new life and new civilizations
- To boldly go where no one has gone before.

So… what kind of Science Fiction do you write/do you like?

Do you love the western cowboy in space stories?
Are you all about the starship and its voyages?
Me? I’m more of a strange new world and seek out new life kinda author.

All this to say that there are tons of approaches to Science Fiction, and even more ways to categorize them.

Here’s a fun list of science fiction subgenres. Which are closest to what you write or read?
Let me know or post in the comments.

Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/red-and-orange-galaxy-illustration-41951/

WATER'S BREAK

What if fear itself is the deadliest undercurrent of all? 

Nica would do anything to avoid the hassles of her sister’s bonding ceremony—the wrap fittings, hairstyles, and braided fire coral—but she never imagined that the waters covering her planet would be broken. As the heavens rained fire and stone, mountains erupted from the sea and dry ground was birthed on the Deep, dividing the water—and the Olomi people—for the first time in their history.

In the wake of her world’s violent re-formation, Nica’s family is shattered. When the rookie Guardian leaves the safety of the Deep to find her sister, she is abducted by strange landwalkers who possess strength and technology beyond her imagination. Nica realizes that the disaster from above was by their design—a calculated plan to terraform the water planet and conquer her people. All Nica wants to do is find her sister and swim home to safety, but with the landwalkers closing in, escape may not be possible. And if Nica can’t save herself,  how can she hope to save her sister—or her people?

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