Mirage by L.T. Ryan and Brian Shea is Book 13 in A Rachel Hatch Novel Series.  Rachel Hatch goes by "Hatch. Just Hatch." Former military, she's worked private security, and she's seen and faced all kinds of danger having the vicious scars on her left arm as a constant reminder. No longer officially working in…

  My all-time favorite Elton John song. Loved this one and still do.    Father, only you know hearts and only you can mend them. Only you can save. Only You. In the Name of Jesus, Amen. 

Honor them. They gave it all.  Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.  John 15:13 (NIV) 

  . . . As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"      "Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.      "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,"…

I recently read a one-star review where an apparent grammar-aficionado one-star reviewer declared he or she would never read another one of a particular author's books because that author used so many incomplete sentences – apparently leaving the reader unable to follow/identify whatever was happening in the story. I think my jaw actually dropped.  I…

(Posted on September 15, 2011) Finding . . . The Opposite of Art  One thing is for sure when you read an Athol Dickson novel: you won't be reading anything "ordinary". The Opposite of Art by Athol Dickson published by Howard Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, is no exception. A master at the…

Blaze by Dustin Stevens is Book 7 in the HAM Action Thrillers Series. If you've never met "Ham," she's a killer, literally. Post-military career, her home-base is in the Mexican desert, but her heart-home is with Glenda, her sister and niece, and the rest of the girls at the secluded mountain home where Glenda –…

  The Zombies with one of their hits featured on their 1968 album. They had some good ones.    Father, may each one you've gifted know the source of their gift(s). In the Name of Jesus, Amen. 

When you start out pursuing a career in novel writing, are your dreams big, huge, mammoth? Or paltry, defeated, and miserable? Do you think all that you've studied will allow you to compose the words and stories to send readers into making rave reviews or cause them to toss the book unfinished into a pile…

       I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were…