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 [...]

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 her blockbuster version of Redeeming Love hit theaters worldwide. Life is Story editor Josh Olds sat down with Francine to talk about the book and the movie.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]