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Good questions came in about being Catholic, about writing, and my own writing journey. As promised, here are the responses!

Hi friends, I'm so pleased to join Paola Ciskanik, founder of Catholic Homeschool Online, on her podcast to talk about this whole CatholicAuthor adventure. Check out her original post here. Do you or one of your teens feel a passion for writing but don’t know where to...

Every author hears a call they are meant to hear, an invite to unlock something of God in the world.

Antihero stories don’t exist for the same reasons as hero stories. They’re just as important, for different reasons.

This tier of taletelling are the mysteries, the stories of direct contact with sacred, sacramental, and spiritual realities.

What is mythology? It is the step beyond the fairy tale. It is a story that externalizes the interior life within the context of our culture.

Fairy Tales aren’t about fairies, but about the realm of Faery. That liminal place beyond human sight that exists deep within us, and in which we are immersed, like an ocean.

All fiction stories are divided into Fairy Tales, Mythology, and Mystagogy. Each has an extremely important role to play.

In case you think this is going to be a whole bunch of woo-woo, it's not. Or at least, it's about as woo as the Catholic Catechism, and human history. We're going to cover the 3 paths of enlightenment, an echo of St John of the Cross 'Dark Night of the Soul,' and...

Discover the meaning behind the art in the CatholicAuthor logo, and why ravens are a surprising and special symbol.

In an ideal world, do we want to have a batch of shelves set aside for Catholic fiction?

I think we all agree; book burning is a terrible idea. Pretty much anywhere, any time. We are horrified at the piles of literature blazed by the Nazis, the loss of the library of Alexandria, the burning of the Mayan codices. These rituals of rejection show an...