Becky Miller nailed it. The Twist in The Sixth Sense is that the man who thought he was helping the little boy stop imagining that he saw dead people was actually one of the dead and the little boy, who was gifted with this sixth sense, was helping him. Love that ending! There are several other of M. Night Shyamalan’s

Recently I participated in a flash fiction contest–flash fiction defined as a short story under a thousand words. One wouldn’t think it would be too difficult for a novelist to write a short story. I learned a lot. First that I was trying to put too much story into it. Second, it was a great exercise in writing tight. Third,

Welcome to Day 3 of the CSFF Blog tour featuring Science Fiction author Kathy Tyers. What is your personal all-time favorite SF work and why? By “SF,” if you mean “speculative fiction,” including all of the speculative genres, that’s easy. Lord of the Rings—the books, though I also enjoyed the movies. For sheer richness of invention, the Lewisian sense of

And so the SFF blog tour continues. I visited some of the blog tour particpants yesterday–or their blogs, rather. Tina Kulesa posted a review of the trilogy. Mirtika Schultz posted a guide to pronouncing names in the Firebird Trilogy. Though I confess, while reading the books, I pronounced them all differently than the the guide! Now to begin the interview.

Kathy “Firebird” Tyers, as she is often called among Christian SFF fans, has grasciously agreed to an interview even though her schedule is hectic with summer school. Kathy is a multi-talented musician and writer, an icon among Christian science fiction fans because her career extends into both the secular and Christian markets with such titles as Firebird, Fusion Fird, Crown

Have you ever noticed that there are quite a few homeschooling moms who also write novels, many even published. I’m one of them. . .well not published (in novels anyway) but I homeschool several children and I write novels. I suppose that the love of books is just one reason many moms choose to homeschool their children. Walls covered with