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Announcing: The LegendMakers Academy for Helping Authors become Legends
Mar 8, 2023
If the LegendFiction community is Hogsmeade, then the LegendMakers Academy is Hogwarts. Our team of mentors have been hard at work collaborating on building a years worth of classes for aspiring and veteran writers everywhere. Anyone can join. Pick and choose your...
Why Christians respect horror as a genre
Mar 8, 2023
Horror as a genre can contribute something positive – depending on how it’s handled. But it’s not a pleasant positivity. These kinds of stories are cautionary tales.
Tolkien’s dream of a world beyond war, the evolution of virtue, & our call as storytellers
Mar 7, 2023
Summary: The World Wars seemed to birth an unlikely legend, the saga of Middle Earth. Tolkien wove a new mythology for humanity, to help us move beyond a nostalgia for violence. Our world needs new stories, rooted in the goodness of the world, in the merriment of...
Worlds is Closing. Stories are Expanding.
Mar 6, 2023
A bittersweet announcement today: our Worlds website will be closing down. Please make sure you have all your stories saved, or posted on your own blog (which you should do anyway!) Keep reading for backstory, our reasoning, and a bonus at the end!
Writing Children’s Stories with Tammy Fernando | LegendFiction
Mar 2, 2023
Sometimes stories are unexpected, and storytelling appears in unusual times in life. This is Tammy’s tale, where she draws from her experiences as a nursery teacher, midwife, and nurse, to create a series of children’s books. Enjoy her lovely British accent, her love of Sinhalese cooking, and her adventures into creating, illustrating, and self-publishing children’s books.
MEET TAMMY
Sri Lankan born, Tammy Fernando is the debut author of ‘A Prayer from the Heart’: a Christian, fiction story for young children which helps them process their desires in the light of God. For a long time, Tammy has wanted to speak to children about God, to show them how loving He is and how He ultimately wants them to share in the never ending, Heavenly party. Though Tammy was trying hard to make this happen by offering schools ‘The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd’, God had other plans. Tammy’s career as a children’s author took her by surprise when, in 2015, the Lord nudged her to write! With insights from her experience as a nursery teacher, midwife, nurse and family story teller, Tammy wrote her first story about a child’s deepest desire.
Chris wants a forever-friend to play with. And his persevering prayers are eventually answered in his new friend, Shani.In her story, it’s easy to see that God overarches its entirety, as the Holy Trinity turns up in every illustration. With this unique offering, what Tammy wants to tell all children is this: “that with God, everything will be alright.”
Website: https://tammyfernando.co.uk
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Let’s stop it with the ‘Catholic Version’ of things
Mar 1, 2023
"We need a Catholic version of genre fiction," she was telling me. "It's important that our teens have Catholic versions of things to grow up with." At first I agreed. But then, a moment later, something sounded off. I couldn't figure out what, so I nodded and moved...
Why maps are the beginning, not the end of discovery
Feb 23, 2023
2 books called to me like grimoires throughout my childhood. An illustrated Bible, and the Usborne Book of Facts for Kids. Both were thick tomes dense with details and stories. My favorite part was the maps. A great big poster of the continents hung over a dresser in...