Into the Fire
Passionate thoughts about the world of writing and the Power of God
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Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen's novels provided the impetus for the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles. Angie Harmon of Law and Order fame and Sasha Alexander formerly in NCIS play the Boston Police Detective Jane Rizzoli and the Medical Examiner Maura Isles respectively. Ms. Gerritsen also writes an occasional post for Gina Holmes' award winning website…
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In horse racing we have a term for when a horse gets the best of a rider and "runs off". Usually this happens in the morning during the hours of training. For various reasons a horse decides to test, ignore, or disregard his exercise rider or jockey and takes off at a dead run…
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For the CFBA Tour: Lieutenant Commander 'Gunner' McCormick is assigned as an intelligence officer to Carrier Strike Force 10, being deployed to the Yellow Sea at the invitation of South Korea for joint exercises with the US Navy. During his pre-deployment briefing, he discovers a TOP-SECRET MEMO revealing rumors that the North Koreans…
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Personally knowing the author of the novel you're reading can change things. That is if you're not a close friend of theirs. You can't help but wonder just how much of them is in the characters with whom you're spending a lot of time. Is that how they think about that subject or is…
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Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king's successor do than what has already been done? I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness. The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in…
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In less than a month, America will pause to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. For most, it is a solemn reflection of the fellow Americans we lost and the heroes who helped us persevere through the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history. Yet the organizers behind the proposed Islamic mosque at Ground…
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Out of the all the novels you can buy today—just today—what makes yours important? What will separate yours from the sea of selections and make it a choice for anyone to buy when it becomes available? Are there trustworthy answers to these questions plaguing novelists today? “Important” is a scary word for evaluating…
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Soft. Sultry. Melancholy. A haze of cigarette smoke. Slinky black dresses with slits up the leg, long sleeves, and low backs. Stiletto heels. Pinstripe suits. Low lights. The massage of a trumpet’s notes. Piano keys that dance under gliding fingers with a dark face turned down toward those black and whites or upward with…
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Melancholy: (n.) 1.Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom 2.Pensive reflection or meditation 3.archaic a.Black bile, one of the four humors of ancient or medieval physiology b.An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger believed to arise from the bile We probably could’ve done without the archaic definition, but it…
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Yes. And no. Of course as Christians we accept that God’s timing is perfect. It’s just as humans we seem to be in constant conflict with His appropriated and specific “time for everything” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Let’s talk about book releases. One of the better novels of 2011 published by Bethany House and released…
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