Legends of the Fall

Faith-inspired storytellers (Christian/Catholic) feel like we're in a tug-of-war. We want to write fiction that readers will love, but don't want to railroad them with altar calls and preachiness. We stand in a cultural crossfire. Many of us quit before we even start. Not any more. Legends of the Fall reclaims imagination as a festival on holy ground. Legends of the Fall is for storytellers who are tired of shrinking their imagination to fit a religious box, or shrinking their faith to fit a market agenda. This is not a handbook on how to smuggle sermons into novels. It is a call to re-wild your inner worlds. Part manifesto, part inspiration, and part spiritual refocus. Dominic de Souza is a cradle Catholic who started writing sci-fi and fantasy at thirteen and never stopped. After graduating from the Writer’s Institute for Children’s Literature, he went through a decade of deconstruction and rebuilding his faith. Today he's a father working full-time in marketing, and builds LegendFiction to inspire, equip, and train faith-inspired storytellers. Drawing on Tolkien’s vision of sub-creation, the fierce realism of Flannery O’Connor, and the deep current of the Catholic imagination, Dominic argues that the storyteller’s task begins with reality itself—beauty and evil, longing and loss, mystery and meaning. Inside, you will find frameworks for belief without sermonizing, practical guardrails for using religion in fiction, invitations into the Perilous Realm of imagination, and much more. Each one of us is a Legend of the Fall. The best legends do not ignore darkness. We light a candle and stare it down. If you want to find your freedom to create, and get unusual, exciting insights into your calling as a storyteller, this book belongs on your desk.