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    • The Father John Trilogy
      • Father John vs the Zombies
      • Bishop John vs the Antichrist
      • St. John vs Death
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    • The Lost Stories: A Series of Cosmic Adventures
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Before I go into what I think writers should be aware of before working with Creation House / Charisma Media, let me give you a bit of background. (You can skip to specific discussion of Charisma Media if you’re not interested in the background.) As a writer of a specialized […]

Writer Beware: Creation House / Charisma Media

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In twelve weeks, Kirsten and I will be married in an Orthodox church. Since many of our guests are either not Orthodox or not Christian, and we wanted them to have a sense of what’s happening in the wedding ceremony, we developed the description below. The text is based on […]

The Orthodox Wedding Ceremony

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The Lost Stories (Old Cover Art)

While working on the paperback version of The Lost Stories (the ebook was published last September), I decided that the cover wasn’t working. Although I liked it as cover art (and love the stunning Hubble telescope photo it uses as a background), I felt, now that I was taking another […]

The Lost Stories: 50% Off Coupon to Celebrate New Cover

“The Redeyes“—a story about killer robots, Jesus Christ, and a convict who holds the key to freedom for a group of survivors—is now available at MindFlights [link expired]. You’re free to go.” The voice belonged to Judge Oatley, the man who had sentenced me to life in prison. “Free to […]

The Redeyes (at MindFlights.com)

The expression “knowledge is power” isn’t confused in and of itself; I agree that knowledge can be powerful. The confusion arises because, in most instances, the speaker seems to think that’s the end of the story, as if the single-minded acquisition of knowledge or power is all that matters, as […]

Confused Expressions #14: Knowledge is Power

The Lost Stories: A Series of Cosmic Adventures is being serialized on Wattpad. The introduction from the book is up now; the plan is to post the first story this Friday (March 9) with new stories to follow every Friday after that (see schedule below). The Lost Stories are the adventures of James Kollins: […]

The Lost Stories: Serialized

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