This post is intended to be a running list of the WIP (Works in Progress) of our various members. These can included partially and fully published works, falling under ‘Christian Fiction’, as long as they are open for comments/critique.
Members: Put your WIP in the comments, with all of the info, or ask permission to edit.
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Island People
Genre: Sci-Fi masquerading as Fantasy
State: Going up as a serial on SS
Teaser: He was kidnapped and forced to ride all day. Why was his head hurting?
Synopsis: A young prince is kidnapped and has to escape and help his father put down a rebellion. And he keeps changing into other races!
Christian Themes: Obedience, Loyalty, Gifts Differing
Contract Marriage
Genre: Sci-fi light dystopia
State: Going up as a serial on SS
Teaser: Her mother got a job on a new planet. Surely they could handle the new culture!
Synopsis: A young woman grew up on a planet where the sexes do nothing but ‘date’ each other (no marriage), and the women have and care for the children without male input… the rich women only one child. She and her mother move to a planet with obligatory ‘contract marriage’.
Christian Themes: Marriage, Children
Article 17
Genre: Sci-fi romance, military, aliens
State: Going up as a serial on SS
Teaser: She came to dance. He had other ideas!
Synopsis: A highly decorated military man in a society with a dictator and a life and death struggle against aliens gets himself a wife and together they go to kill aliens.
Christian Themes: Marriage, loyalty.
The Oracle
Genre: Fantasy
State: Haitus
Teaser: The Oracle will answer your questions… but you have to pay the price.
Synopsis: A series of vignettes where paying the oracle’s ‘price’ leads to getting the oracle’s answer.
Christian Themes: Obedience, family
Victoria Jensen
Title: War-Torn
Genre: medieval fantasy/sci-fi
State: partially published
Teaser: They told him there was no way to victory but by trampling everyone around him, but Colton is not convinced. On a planet of warriors, is there any other option?
Synopsis: The story follows the life of Colton Derak, a young man who is kidnapped from his home on earth and finds himself upon the planet of Vellatha. Here he is forced to become a warrior, and eventually he must compete in the Games, where he will have the chance to be crowned with honor and receive riches and power. But Colton is not so willing to conform to the life he is expected to live, and must decide whether to follow another path instead.
Christian themes: what real courage and nobility look like, manhood, loyalty
Title: War-Torn
Genre: medieval fantasy/sci-fi
State: partially published
Teaser: They told him there was no way to victory but by trampling everyone around him, but Colton is not convinced. On a planet of warriors, is there any other option?
Synopsis: The story follows the life of Colton Derak, a young man who is kidnapped from his home on earth and finds himself upon the planet of Vellatha. Here he is forced to become a warrior, and eventually he must compete in the Games, where he will have the chance to be crowned with honor and receive riches and power. But Colton is not so willing to conform to the life he is expected to live, and must decide whether to follow another path instead.
Christian themes: what real courage and nobility look like, manhood, loyalty
Here's mine:
Title: The Santara Commentaries
Genre: Fantasy, Military Fantasy
State: Serial on Substack (and Royal Road)
Teaser: He woke up with no memories and wrapped up in a war for freedom. But there is more to him than meets the eye.
Synopsis: A millennia after the Holy Kingdom of Santara was no more, the Sons of Yakob are now ruled by distant Tionghoa. The wandering tactician Yu woke up with no memory, only to be rescued from his captors by King Aron of Dun-a-din, the last heir to the priest kings. From there, he was wrapped up in a war for freedom, but there’s more to the Padri War than meets the eye.
Christian themes: Just war, racism and ethnic hatred (from a Christian perspective), forgiveness, salvation.