When Nathaniel was born God assigned some angels to deliver him his talents he would use in life. The angels came to give him his gifts and somehow when they were giving him the gift of imagination they tipped over a piece of chalk left on the floor in his room and spilled the whole barrel they were carrying into his soul. Since then, he has been on a mission to produce creative storytelling. God knew that people needed a Catholic version of Ash Williams from Army of Darkness and inspired Nathaniel to create a Catholic version of his own.
God raises up storytellers where they are needed. Nathaniel continues to pass on his legacy of imagination to his children. He is connected to and walks with creative storytelling along his journey on earth. And now it’s time to…
Meet the Writer of
Chainsaw Catholic Schoolgirl N.R. LaPoint
1. Tell something interesting about yourself.
I’ve recently become rather obsessed with Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. Easily the most fun I’ve had in watching television.
2. What makes a good Catholic writer?
A good Catholic writer points the reader in some fashion to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, even if it’s something as simple as writing an aspirational hero. Preaching and browbeating typically has a negative effect, and good Catholic writers know to avoid that. I’d also say a good Christian writer in general will avoid the trappings of Modernism and Postmodernism, such as placing style above story or being subversive and ironic.
3. What do you like about being a Catholic/Christian Writer?
My favorite thing has been networking and making a lot of friends with other Christian writers. I’m incredibly grateful to have those people in my life, more so than most of them probably realize.
4. What is the Main focus of your particular Writing or what do you like to write about?
I like writing fun adventure stories with strong, likable characters and bizarre monsters. My Raven Mistcreek series that started with Chalk began with me realizing that I wanted a story about a Catholic schoolgirl with a magic chainsaw fighting cosmic horrors, but there wasn’t one, so I went and wrote it myself.
My Dinosaur Warfare trilogy has plenty of dinosaurs, lasers, and dinosaurs with lasers amidst other off-the-wall things like postmodern leech-men and mad scientist barbarians. The stranger the better. I’m very influenced by H.P. Lovecraft, John Carpenter, Yasuhiro Nightow, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eiji Tsuburaya, and Robert. E. Howard and I hope my work is at least half as fun.
5. How does your Catholic Faith influence your writing?
I started writing because I got sick of so many YA books being filled with smut or normalizing immoral behavior. So, I wrote Lightsinger and tried to do the opposite of what I was seeing in mainstream fantasy stories without being preachy. I just made characters with a moral compass and that seems to be the real subversion nowadays. I’m particularly influenced by Augustinian thought and that’s a big foundation for any philosophy that comes across in my work. A huge point of the world in the Raven Mistcreek books is that the universe operates on a Qualitative Continuum, rather than a materialistic, quantitative one.
6. What’s your favorite article/Post/book/story you have written?
Maybe Gun Magus, which was my take on the isekai genre,
Isekai (Japanese: 異世界; transl. ’different world’, ‘another world’, or ‘other world’) is a subgenre of Japanese high fantasy fiction that revolves around a person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world.
It was written with a redheaded Texan getting sent to a fantasy world where he has the power to turn regular objects into firearms. He teams up with a rabbit wizard, a magical girl, and others, to stop a local gang lord. But it turns out there is more going on. A lot of readers thought that one was fun.
7. What is your favorite topic/subject to write about?
Good versus Evil. I don’t write big twists, hard sci-fi, or elaborate magical systems. Good triumphing over evil is the most fun and most satisfying thing to write, I find.
8. Favorite scripture verse.
Wisdom 1:13: God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
I find this to be an incredibly reassuring verse, and a good reminder that we’re in a fallen world and that death is actually unnatural and is not a thing in itself, but a lack of life.
9. What Are you currently working on?
While I finish up the fourth and final Raven Mistcreek story, Hellgate, I am also working on a number of novelettes that I’m writing with my kids that will be somewhat episodic serials. Burnstarr is a space western, Dargan and the Knights of Eternity is a throwback to old sword and sorcery as well as cartoons like Thundarr the Barbarian and He-Man, Rex Danger is pulpy adventure, Rok Cousins is a bonkers concoction outlined by my boys so it’s pretty insane. There will be others, too. I also have a ninja story I’ve outlined and need to get out.
10. Name a favorite saint or Catholic or some other figure who inspires you in your life.
I’d have to go with Eiji Tsuburaya, co-creator of Godzilla and inventor of that kind of suit-mation. The things he invented or inspired are some of the coolest and most uplifting, edifying, fun things you’ll find in cinema.
11. Who is your favorite Living Writer?
JD Cowan. I’m pretty sure I’m his target demographic. We have a very similar outlook on what makes for cool story and characters. First book of his I read was Brutal Dreams and it was so bonkers and awesome I had to read more. Since then, he’s contributed short stories to anthologies that I’ve published like Mistcreek Tales and Rock and Roll Mercenaries, too. Big recommend for his work.
12. If you could have lunch with any deceased writer who would it be, what would you eat and what would you talk about?
It might be fun to talk theology with C.S. Lewis. I have no idea what we’d eat.
13. Name a favorite movie/tv show or music you find worth sharing with others.
If you want a good time you can grab pretty much any season of Super Sentai and have a blast. As for music, any album by Rhapsody that has Luca Turilli playing guitar will be a treat. Anything Turilli worked on, honestly, is worth a listen. Neo-classical power metal without being restrained by the arbitrary bounds of genre.
14. Can you see one of your books being made into a movie or tv series?
Not by any Western media studio in Current Year. Anime would be a better fit for what I write, anyway. Chalk or Gun Magus in particular would be a lot of fun to see adapted by a Japanese animation studio, and I’d trust they’d do a loyal adaptation.
15. Favorite Historical event.
Tough choice. Probably the First Crusade or the Siege of Malta being lifted. Maybe the Night Raid on Targoviste.
This interview was published on April 13 , 2026
The day these events took place
1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson‘s birth.
1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
1970 – At 10:08 PM EST an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed “Odyssey“) while en route to the Moon.
16. What else do you want people to know about anything.
I also run Mistcreek Publishing (Mistcreek Publishing) and can be found on Twitter: @nrlapoint.
Apart from my novels I’ve written a fair amount of short fiction, most recently having had a horror short published in Cirsova Magazine entitled “What’s He Building in There?”.
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