Interview with J A Webb 2025

When did you feel called to become an author?

I’ve been a voracious reader since I first learned to read, and have had the desire to write speculative fiction for nearly as long. After countless abortive attempts, I again sat down to write a few years ago and, unlike in previous efforts, the words flowed, there was a story I was aching to tell, and hence was born my debut novel, Fragments.


What did you learn while writing this book?

Oh, so many things.

Once Fragments was complete and submitted to my first ACFW contest, I discovered I had a lot to learn about craft. A lot.

I’ve learned this can be a lonely, sometimes disheartening pursuit. But I’ve also learned there is a community of Christian writers, the members of ACFW foremost, always willing to come alongside one another to support and enable one another as we seek to create great stories to thrill our readers for Gods glory.

This would be so very much harder without such a community.

What is the toughest part of writing in your genre?

Because I write fantastical fiction that, although not polemic, is overtly Christian fiction, I find that publishers are less interested than they would be in, say romance or fantastical fiction which could be taken to the mass market.

But I have faith that the readers for whom this story was written will, with enough of my time and effort, discover the books and be deeply impacted by them.
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If someone were to look at your Google search history (all for research of course!), what types of things would we find?

Let’s hope they don’t!

But seriously, they’d find everything from “If a man were to be knocked out by a blow to the head, what are the short-term side effects?” to “How much do Mississippi river barges weigh?” to “How far do I need to be from the impact of a thousand-pound pound bomb to avoid punctured eardrums?”

What’s your go-to drink while writing?

One cup of coffee, then water. Often tea. Nothing in common with Hemingway, on oh so many levels.

If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?

Find Jesus sooner, don’t give up on writing so easily, and what seem like big concerns at the moment, aren’t really. Don’t waste so much energy on them.

What do you enjoy doing when you are not writing?

Listening to great Christian fiction while working on my acreage- especially in the garden.

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

Jen Porter’s The Frozen, Jonathon Shuerger’s Shades of Black, Kathy Tyer’s Firebird, J. J. Fischer’s Nightingale Trilogy, S. D. Smith’s Ember Falls.

What can we look forward to next?

Inheritance, Book 2 of The Seekers Series releases in ebook, print, and audiobook this coming May of 2025, with Book 3 releasing November of 2025.

The audiobooks are all produced by my incredible Hugo and Grammy award-winning narrator Stefen Rudnicki. I’ve been a big fan of his for decades, so it’s such an honor that he’s been part of this project.