Priests...in SPACE!

and other oddities

Glossolalia’s ebook is on sale today for $2!

If you want, you can read the first twelve chapters for free.

Also, if you’re one of those kind people who already bought and read Glossolalia, I would very much appreciate it if you left a review on Amazon and Goodreads.

User reviews are pretty important, especially for independently published novels. Getting that review number above ten, but especially above fifty, will only do good things for my little book. Really, every hundred extra reviews will only do great things for me.

And so I’d appreciate it if you left a review, even if you didn’t like the book!

This also goes for any book. If you liked a book written by someone who is not an already famous author, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon will be helpful.

Also, been having fun continuing to write a 100 word story each day this month and writing this cyberpunk novel live on the fly has been pretty fun. Funny, too, to see people pop in and out to watch me write.

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Several years ago, I read a bunch of novels about priests in space, primarily because it was hilarious to me that such a niche genre existed. I mostly just thought they were okay, and then I read The Sparrow, which blew my dang mind.

I love it. Probably my favorite SF novel of all time.

Catholic priests hold a powerful place in fiction. I’m not entirely sure why, but there have also been a lot of great Catholic writers of the 20th century. But some of these novels about Catholic priests are among the best books you’re likely to come across. Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and Shusaku Endo’s Silence, for example, are just monumental achievements.

And so because I made the slightly stupid decision this year to write a bunch of short stories instead of writing the novels I had planned, I began nosing around where to send such things.

I came across Mysterion, which pitches itself as Christian SFF and the idea just fell into my lap.

We have stories about priests and stories about priests in space, but, as far as I can tell, no one has done the same thing within fantasy.

So I gave it a shot.

This was the first story I wrote this year and it happened to be my first professional short story sale. Wrote it one day and sent it to Mysterion a few days later. A few months later, they said they wanted it.

And so now you can read my short story Heretic, which is about a priest stuck in a fantasy world.

I like it a lot. I hope you like it a lot too.