Apparently I never mentioned on my blog that the audio fantasy podcast PodCastle bought my story “Accounting for Dragons,” which first appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show.
Anyway, if you want to listen to the story, it’s here. (It’s free.) Steve Anderson did a great job with the reading.
Today is the release day for two first novels by good friends of mine: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick and Servant of a Dark God by John Brown.
Becca is one of my writing friends I’ve known the longest. She and I were in an online class together back in 2002 and then in an in-person writing group for a couple of years until she moved to Colorado. I read the earliest version of the novel that would eventually become Hush, Hush—back before the character of Patch was a fallen angel—and I’ve always thought Becca had a great writing voice for Young Adult novels. I also admire her tremendous persistence in rewriting and rewriting her novel until it became a surefire hit. I look forward to reading the final version.
John Brown and I both went to Bountiful High School just a year apart, but we apparently didn’t know each other at the time. We’ve since gotten to know each other as members of Codex and through the local Utah conventions. John’s lecture on the “three things you need to know to write killer stories” is fascinating, and I highly recommend it to aspiring writers.
Of course, there was no need to go to all that trouble. There’s a much more authoritative source which debunks the Shroud of Turin.
From the Gospel According to St. John, Chapter 20:
6. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
7. And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. [Emphasis added.]
According to the Biblical account, the cloth used to wrap Christ’s head was completely separate from that used to wrap his body. Therefore, since the Shroud of Turin purports to be a single piece of cloth used to wrap both head and body, it cannot be the cloth used to wrap Christ’s body.
(Of course, this debunking only works for people who believe in the Bible, but I think the number of people who believe in the Shroud of Turin but not in the Bible is relatively small.)
