• News
  • Book award
  • Audiobook version of The Persistent Road is live
    
  • National Religious Broadcasters Convention
    
  • Win a $500 gift card and a block of books
• Valentine's Day podcast
• Issues of the Heart: Grief
  
• Meditation Moment
• Upcoming Events

Happy Valentine's Day! Give your honey a little extra love today. And then make every day Valentine's Day.

Book Award

Judges in the Southern Christian Writers Conference Notable Book Awards contest have selected The Persistent Road as the winner in its self-published fiction category! You can view the announcement here.

The Persistent Road audiobook

The Persistent Road audiobook is now available for sale! Special thanks to narrator Kim Rasmussen for his outstanding performance. Here's a sample. Once on that page, click on the sample icon located in the bottom right corner of the book cover.

You can purchase the audiobook on your favorite listening platform, including Spotify, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Amazon among others.

Currently, the best price without a subscription appears to be Google.

The National Religious Broadcasters Convention

I've been busy prepping for the NRB convention at Gaylord Opryland in Nashville next week (February 21-23, 2024).

If you live nearby and plan to attend, please stop and say hi at booth 709, where I've joined forces with the Christian Independent Publishers Association and the Christian Authors Network.

I'm participating in two promotions in February.

Enter to win!

The first is a contest promoted through Celebrate Lit and centered around Valentine's Day. Its purpose is to grow my newsletter list. You can discover new authors and enter the contest for a chance to win a block of books and a $500 Amazon gift card.

Here's the contest sign-up page: 

👉 https://promosimple.com/ps/28c...

The second promotion will introduce you to authors of Christian suspense. And yes, my novel contains both love and suspense though not in the conventional sense of each genre. During the promotion, I'm offering the paperback version of The Persistent Road at a 20% discount when purchased directly from the publisher, Open Road Press.

Check out the books here: 👉 https://books.bookfunnel.com/g...

If you're single or know someone who is, you'll relate to my latest Wisdom from the Heart podcast, entitled "Redeeming Time." Based on how God brought Debbie and me together after decades without a spouse, it considers what may be going on behind the scenes when prayers seem to go unanswered.

The shock of grief was here again: another Christmastime with a higher frequency of deaths. Sometimes, they hit in sets.

In transitioning from 2023 to 2024, I lost three men who touched my life in different ways.

It began just before Thanksgiving... Read more>>

NOTE: If you also subscribe to my blog, please forgive the automated notice you'll receive tomorrow. I don't often share my blog posts in this newsletter, but I felt this topic warranted it.

For more, see the aforementioned blog post.

“And he said: “Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD.” In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.”

-Job 1:21-22 NKJV

Prayer for the grief-stricken

Lord, Thank you for the lives of _______, _______, and _______. What would my life be like now if I had never met them? Help me to use the feelings of loss inside to motivate me to touch the lives of other people, to multiply the legacy of these loved ones - and to create one of my own - so that Your name may be glorified here on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

Order Your Copy Today!

If you've not yet picked up your copy of The Persistent Road, you can do so at a variety of online booksellers.

You can purchase the audiobook there too.