Into the Fire

Passionate thoughts about the world of writing and the Power of God

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  •                                           Five things I need from novel types: Thrillers: I need a great hero/heroine and a story that keeps you nearly breathless with the rapid pace of treacherous circumstances requiring every skill the hero has…

  •                       From my next novel . . . in a love song.  From Chapter 1       “Refills, please.” He kept his voice level in spite of the noise, not wanting to appear as shouting his instructions. She hadn’t seen him until then, and the…

  •                              Beauty in every season under heaven.    God, you didn't have to leave us anything beautiful after the Fall of Man, but you made and left it in every season for us. Thank you for leaving us evidence of your priceless…

  •     Mylon and his band Broken Heart made some great Christian music. Mylon had been through the world and done it all before Jesus rescued him. Afterward he gave up music for a period of time until a pastor told him he needed to use his gift for the Lord.    Thank you for…

  •                             Hard Vengeance, Book 9 in the Jon Reznick Thriller Series, by J. B. Turner starts with a phone call by a distraught father and continues on to the island of Mallorca/Majorca, Spain.  Jon receives the news from Assistant Director of the…

  •   If the righteous receive their due on earth,    how much more the ungodly and the sinner!   Proverbs 11:31 (NIV)

  •                           Okay, it's not a given that authors can be anti-social. In fact, some are marvelously out-going and really socially inclined. Some authors are inherently good marketers – a gift that many of us do not possess or do not exercise. It's certainly…

  •             There's a message in every novel. It might not be intentional. It might be misunderstood. It might be simplistic, might be complex. Might be hard to determine, might be obvious to all.  The eternal conflict is always Good vs. Evil. You see it in real life. You see it…

  •                           Three "dead" people come to life in The Last Insurgent (Book 2 in the Michael Wolfe Saga) by J. C. Fields. Two of them are good. One of them is not.  Michael Wolfe, former Marine Sniper, and his former-Mossad wife Nadia Picard…

  •   So appropriate. Love this one by Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart. Love it.    Thank you, God. Thank you for it all. Desperate for you. Always. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.