Jack Cavanaugh's The Making of Christian Historical Fiction Unknown
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Author Jack Cavanaugh on the making of Christian historical fiction. Author of 26 published novels. Two-time Christy award-winner for excellence in Christian fiction. Informative for those who love reading history and historical fiction, and those who write novels.
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015 The Making of The Allies
In this episode author Jack Cavanaugh talks about some of the dramatic events of World War I and the making of his novel, The Allies, Book 6 in the American Family Portrait series.
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014 The Making of The Pioneers
In this episode, author Jack Cavanaugh narrates the making of his historical fiction novel, The Pioneers, Book 5 in the American Family Portrait series.
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013 The Making of BEHOLD
In this episode, Jack talks about the making of his supernatural suspense novel, Behold. While this is a departure from his usual historical fiction, this end times story allows him to flex his contemporary suspense skill while also relying on his historical fiction skills as his protagonist travels back in time.
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012 The Making of The Adversaries
This episode is set during one of the most popular periods for historical fiction, the Civil War. As strange as it sounds, Chapter 15 is special to me because even though it is in Book 4 in the series, it contains the first chapter I wrote as a professional novelist.
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011 The Patriots - Patience Wright
In this episode, I describe how, while mining historical research about the Revolutionary War, I struck character gold. I discovered Patience Wright, America’s first sculptress of notoriety.
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010 The Making of the Patriots
The Revolutionary War. While we are proud as Christians of the role our faith played in the founding of our country, the decision to take up arms was not an easy one for Christians in 1776. A key question had to be addressed: At what point does a Christian take up arms against his own government?