When Christians are urged to "walk in the footsteps" of the faith of Abraham, they emulate his wife Sarah, who quite literally followed behind him in the life of a nomad of faith. What their story shows -- and what Christians must know-- is that faith is not a shapeless stream, but rather comes in three phases: Promise, Contradiction, and Resolution. Learning how to navigate through those three phases brings peace and the knowledge that Sarah gained: that God becomes a Rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him through those phases.
What do I write? Well, depends on what day it is.
I'm my literary agent's quandry, because I write in just about every genre there is -- book length fiction and nonfiction, children's books, magazine articles, poetry, blogs, radio plays, song lyrics, a dissertation, you name it. And I've published in all those genres!
My first book, The Mormon Mirage, has stayed in print almost continuously for over 30 years. I have over a dozen other published books.
My kids say I'm not funny, but I hold up the check I won for a national humor writing contest. Somebody thinks I'm funny. At least in print.
Except for a book I'm working on right now (about the discovery of the ancient Biblical city of Sodom), I'm concentrating mostly on fiction.
Here are some of my recent projects:
A novel about the woman who wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews in the Bible.
A modern version of Hamlet -- in an Amish village.
A Civil War historical series about religious pacifists.
I blog at Latayne.com and with the super-talented ladies at NovelMatters.com.
