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.
Von
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
As Arthur Yeomans
The Bobtails Meet the Preacher’s Kid
Genre: Children’s Historical Fiction
State: Published in print, publishing audio
Teaser: Robert was determined to do his best and make his dead father proud. Esther put her grief aside to take care of her little sister. Roger didn’t believe his parents were dead, and was just going to have fun until they came back. Ruth was confused and lost. But Aunt Grace had set her mind to providing the best possible home for her orphaned niblings; and Aunt Grace always did what she set her mind on.
Christian Themes: Family, obedience, responsibility, discipline, marriage
The Bobtails and the Cousins
Genre: Children’s Historical Fiction
State: Published in print, publishing audio
Teaser: Now that the adoption is final, and the addition complete, the Bobtails are settling into their new house and family. But Aunt Grace writes to her brothers and says they need to come for a visit. Not all of the cousins are thrilled to come and spend time on a dairy farm, however. And they certainly get more than they expected!
Christian Themes: Family, obedience, responsibility, discipline, marriage, laziness, fertility
No Ordinary School
Genre: YA Science Fiction
State: Published in print, publishing audio
Teaser: The offer seemed to good to be true. Mark, a mathematical genius but social misfit from a struggling family, is offered a place at a special school that promises to make him rich. Paired with a charming "social guide" and a computer genius, Mark’s new life seems wonderful until strange data leads the trio to uncover a dangerous mystery about some of the other students, and Mark must use his intelligence to navigate this perilous situation and grow up in the process.
Christian Themes: Family, obedience, responsibility, marriage, training
The Bobtails Go to France
Genre: Children’s Historical Fiction
State: Coming soon, at the editors, Beta Readers desired
Teaser: Aunt Grace gets a telegram, and suddenly the Bobtails and the Preacher’s Kid are on the train on their way to a small village France to visit their French cousins and get some cheese! Via New York, London, and Paris; and meeting lots of people on the way. And even adding some of them to the family!!
Christian Themes: Family, obedience, responsibility, discipline, friendship, daily worship
Without a Word
Genre: Historical Fiction
State: Being written, Beta Readers desired
Teaser: A rich and active young woman in the early 1800’s is suddenly betrothed and then married to an older widower of questionable morals. He’s rich, handsome, dresses well, is a Duke… but keeps mistresses. Or so the rumors say.
Christian Themes: Marriage, obedience, submission, temptation
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
Michael
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.
The Brother’s Kryn
Title: Bear & Cub
Genre: Medieval Fantasy
State: In Progress
Synopsis: Two murders and all changes in Valhol. It takes the murder of his children for Hroðgar to turn on his liege-lord and to see him and the man’s sons’ for what they are. What ensues is a blood-feud that will take Hroðgar and his last remaining son Sigewulf from the frozen wasteland of Valhol, to Bretwealda in the west, and from safety into blood-soaked fields.
Christian Themes: Redemption, the importance of masculine role-models, the bond between a father and a son, and the power of love, Truth and justice.
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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: Bear & Cub
Genre: Medieval Fantasy
State: In Progress
Synopsis: Two murders and all changes in Valhol. It takes the murder of his children for Hroðgar to turn on his liege-lord and to see him and the man’s sons’ for what they are. What ensues is a blood-feud that will take Hroðgar and his last remaining son Sigewulf from the frozen wasteland of Valhol, to Bretwealda in the west, and from safety into blood-soaked fields.
Christian Themes: Redemption, the importance of masculine role-models, the bond between a father and a son, and the power of love, Truth and justice.
Link; https://canadianculturecorner.substack.com/p/bear-and-cub-table-of-contents