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With the opening lines of The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water, I knew it was a book I needed to read in one sitting. It’s themes of how story shapes us, and how we [...] The post The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water: A Conversation with Erin Bartels appeared first on Life Is Story.

It’s been four years since Francine Rivers last released a novel and thirty years since her enduring classic, Redeeming Love. Now, in the space of two months, Rivers is releasing a novel—The Lady’s Mine—and seeing [...] The post The Lady’s Mine: A Conversation with Francine Rivers appeared first on Life Is Story.

Susie Finkbeiner is a Life is Story favorite! A few months ago, we had the opportunity to sit down with her and talk about The Nature of Small Birds. It’s a beautiful, relational story told [...] The post Nature of Small Birds: A Conversation with Susie Finkbeiner appeared first on Life Is Story.

In 2018, Matt Mikalatos released book one of his fantasy trilogy The Sunlit Lands. Imagine, if you will, that C.S. Lewis was writing to teenagers instead of elementary schoolchildren and you’ll have a pretty good [...] The post The Sunlit Lands: A Conversation with Matt Mikalatos appeared first on Life Is Story.

Chris Fabry had his start in small-town radio and years later—now with his own nationally syndicated show and dozens of bestselling novels—he’s returning that nostalgic past in A Piece of the Moon. After reading the [...] The post A Piece of the Moon: A Conversation with Chris Fabry appeared first on Life Is Story.

With the YA dystopian market so crowded, it can be difficult to find authors whose voice is truly their own. Everybody wants to be the next Hunger Games or Divergent that they fail to give [...] The post A Gentle Tyranny: A Conversation with Jess Corban appeared first on Life Is Story.

If you grew up in the church, you probably know the name Bill Myers. Bill’s been a creator of Christian media for decades, fiction and non-fiction, for children and adults. You might know him from [...] The post Rendezvous with God: A Conversation with Bill Myers appeared first on Life Is Story.

We here at Life is Story believe that…well…that life is Story—everyone’s story matters, is worth being told, and worth knowing. Everyone has a story, but very few ever put that story on paper and in words. [...] The post The Power of Writing it Down: A Conversation with Allison Fallon appeared first on Life Is Story.

From 1983 to 1999, Darryl Strawberry wowed crowds with his flashy style, sound fundamentals, and electric play. But all the success belied a deep struggle in his personal life, which begin to push through into [...] The post Turn Your Season Around: A Conversation with Darryl Strawberry appeared first on Life Is Story.

Not many authors can successfully make the switch from writing historical romance to contemporary thriller and—if I can be brutally honest—I wasn’t sure how Siri Mitchell would do. A lot of this was based in [...] The post Everywhere to Hide: A Conversation with Siri Mitchell appeared first on Life Is Story.

I’ve been diving into a lot of non-fiction recently, with the terrible side effect of not having as much time for fiction. It’d been a while since my last Christian fiction novel when I picked [...] The post Two Reasons to Run: A Conversation with Colleen Coble appeared first on Life Is Story.

Rachelle Dekker has jumped from genre to genre throughout her writing career, but her work thematically seems to always come back to question of identity and humanity. I called Rachelle to talk about her upcoming [...] The post In Search of Identity: A Conversation with Rachelle Dekker appeared first on Life Is Story.

I picked this book up based on the title and nothing else. I had long been disillusioned with the American Dream, even as I still harbored a secret desire for it. My social and political [...] The post The Myth of the American Dream: A Conversation with D.L. Mayfield appeared first on Life Is Story.

Biblical fiction is a difficult genre. There are so many expectations, limitations, and interpretations that an author must carefully weave through—all while imaginatively going “beyond the text” to bring the story to life. In recent [...] The post Daughter of Rome: A Conversation with Tessa Afshar appeared first on Life Is Story.

When Life is Story relaunched, we did so from scratch. As the site has grown (over 15k visitors this month!), I’ve started to work on reformatting or republishing our years of archives. Almost immediately, I [...] The post Tales of Goldstone Wood Remembered: A Conversation with Sylvia Mercedes/Anne Elisabeth Stengl appeared first on Life Is Story.

There’s great power in a good story. Stories bring us together, help us find common ground, take us on a common journey. In Stories That Bind Us, Susie Finkbeiner weaves a compelling relational narrative about [...] The post Stories That Bind Us: A Conversation with Susie Finkbeiner appeared first on Life Is Story.

If you’ve ever gone searching for a new Bible, you know that the process can be overwhelming. Not only do you have dozens of English language translations to choose from, but there’s also dozens of [...] The post Life Essentials Interactive Study Bible: A Conversation with Gene Getz appeared first on Life Is Story.

The world of Scripture is vastly different than my life here in the 21st century western world. As I’ve spent my life digging into Scripture, I’ve learned that a key to interpreting it well is [...] The post Seeing Jesus from the East: A Conversation with Abdu Murray appeared first on Life Is Story.

Middle-grade fiction isn’t exactly my top genre, but when I saw the cover of The Edge of Everywhen, I mentally put it in my “possibilities” pile. Just a few days afterward, the book’s publicist reached out [...] The post The Edge of Everywhen: A Conversation with A.S. Mackey appeared first on Life Is Story.

In 2010, Ted Dekker closed out The Lost Books in a stunning fashion, returning for a two-book salvo that picks up where the initial four-book set (Chosen, Infidel, Renegade, and Chaos) left off. These final [...] The post The Lost Books: Looking Back with Kaci Hill appeared first on Life Is Story.