About Rebecca LuElla Miller
The first clue that I wasn’t ready to be a writer, despite my BA in English, had to be that I started “my novel” with pencil in a tiny spiral notebook. I’m talking, TINY. I abandoned the project primarily because it read like a Narnia knock-off. That was probably thirty years ago, and for a good many years following, I gave up the idea of being a writer.
Looking back, I see God’s hand in bringing me back to writing. One summer I awoke from a vivid dream and decided to write it down so I wouldn’t forget it. The writing-it-down process got me to “imagining,” and I ended up creating a map for a make-believe country. For the next several summers, I worked on a story to go with the map—just a fun hobby. Until I attended the Biola Writer’s Institute.
On the second day between workshops, when I was asking God what He wanted me to do with my writing, He impressed on my mind the need to write the fantasy story that was rattling around in my brain. I wrote book one and started the process of trying to get it published. One wise mentor told me to go ahead and start writing book two while I waited.
That was longer ago than I care to remember. All the while I dabbled in writing, however, my desire to write grew. Finally, God engineered a sequence of events that led me to change careers. I decided I’d take this writing thing seriously and see what He had in store.
Since that time, I’ve become a newspaper correspondent, covering high school sports for a Los Angeles area newspaper. I also do some freelance editing, primarily working for AMG Publishing (as the editor for three of Bryan Davis’s Dragons in Our Midst books). But more importantly, I’ve become a student of fiction. And I’ve re-written and revised—both books one and two of The Lore of Efrathah.
Last year I sold a short story, “At His Table,” to a Canadian publication, Fellowship LINK, won the weekly contest at Everyday Hogwash for a humorous piece posted on this blog, and finaled in the ACFW Genesis contest. More recently I sold a short story to the Christian science fiction and fantasy webzine Sword Review.
As a first priority, I continue to write the fantasy story which developed into a trilogy, and I am ready for a rewrite. Books one and two, Return to Efrathah and Journey to Mithlimar, are completed. The final book, Battle for Revín, is in rough draft. And believe me, I’ve left the tiny spiral notebook behind. 
