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September 8, 2011
Angel: Release Date Set
My novel, Angel, has been given a release date of September 27. I am told there will be some sites for advance orders soon. I am hoping to figure out how to get it into the Goodreads database too. Here is the description:
Since the loss of his lively, charming wife to cancer six years ago, minister Paul Tobit has been operating on autopilot, performing his religious duties by rote. Everything changes the day he enters the church lobby and encounters a radiant, luminous being lit from behind, breathtakingly beautiful and glowing with life. An angel. For a moment Paul is so moved by his vision that he is tempted to fall on his knees and pray.
Even after he regains his focus and realizes he simply met a flesh-and-blood young man, Paul cannot shake his sense of awe and wonder. He feels an instant and overwhelming attraction for the young man, which puzzles him even as it fills his thoughts and fires his feelings. Paul has no doubt that God has spoken to him through this vision, and Paul must determine what God is calling him to do.
Thus begins a journey that will inspire Paul’s ministry but put him at odds with his church as he is forced to examine his deeply held beliefs and assumptions about himself, his community, and the nature of love.
Since the loss of his lively, charming wife to cancer six years ago, minister Paul Tobit has been operating on autopilot, performing his religious duties by rote. Everything changes the day he enters the church lobby and encounters a radiant, luminous being lit from behind, breathtakingly beautiful and glowing with life. An angel. For a moment Paul is so moved by his vision that he is tempted to fall on his knees and pray.
Even after he regains his focus and realizes he simply met a flesh-and-blood young man, Paul cannot shake his sense of awe and wonder. He feels an instant and overwhelming attraction for the young man, which puzzles him even as it fills his thoughts and fires his feelings. Paul has no doubt that God has spoken to him through this vision, and Paul must determine what God is calling him to do.
Thus begins a journey that will inspire Paul’s ministry but put him at odds with his church as he is forced to examine his deeply held beliefs and assumptions about himself, his community, and the nature of love.
July 28, 2011
Angel: Coming Sooner
Just received the galley proofs on Angel. So it is one step closer to being a real book. I hope to have more information to share in the near future.
In the meantime, I just wanted to point out that I did not write "Rhinestone Wheels and Trailer Poles (Sexy Tales from Colorado Women Collection)"
It is another Laura Lee, maybe the same one who wrote the books on coping with the loss of your pet (which result in my sometimes getting e-mails from strangers about dead dogs.)
In the meantime, I just wanted to point out that I did not write "Rhinestone Wheels and Trailer Poles (Sexy Tales from Colorado Women Collection)"
It is another Laura Lee, maybe the same one who wrote the books on coping with the loss of your pet (which result in my sometimes getting e-mails from strangers about dead dogs.)
July 25, 2011
Angel: Coming Soon
My new novel is slated to be released in September by a new publishing imprint called Itineris. I will keep you updated as the official release date is revealed. The back cover copy has been finalized. Here it is:
Since the loss of his lively, charming wife to cancer six years ago, minister Paul Tobit has been operating on autopilot, performing his religious duties by rote. Everything changes the day he enters the church lobby and encounters a radiant, luminous being lit from behind, breathtakingly beautiful and glowing with life. An angel. For a moment Paul is so moved by his vision that he is tempted to fall on his knees and pray.
Even after he regains his focus and realizes he simply met a flesh-and-blood young man, Paul cannot shake his sense of awe and wonder. He feels an instant and overwhelming attraction for the young man, which puzzles him even as it fills his thoughts and fires his feelings. Paul has no doubt that God has spoken to him through this vision, and Paul must determine what God is calling him to do.
Thus begins a journey that will inspire Paul’s ministry but put him at odds with his church as he is forced to examine his deeply held beliefs and assumptions about himself, his community, and the nature of love.
Since the loss of his lively, charming wife to cancer six years ago, minister Paul Tobit has been operating on autopilot, performing his religious duties by rote. Everything changes the day he enters the church lobby and encounters a radiant, luminous being lit from behind, breathtakingly beautiful and glowing with life. An angel. For a moment Paul is so moved by his vision that he is tempted to fall on his knees and pray.
Even after he regains his focus and realizes he simply met a flesh-and-blood young man, Paul cannot shake his sense of awe and wonder. He feels an instant and overwhelming attraction for the young man, which puzzles him even as it fills his thoughts and fires his feelings. Paul has no doubt that God has spoken to him through this vision, and Paul must determine what God is calling him to do.
Thus begins a journey that will inspire Paul’s ministry but put him at odds with his church as he is forced to examine his deeply held beliefs and assumptions about himself, his community, and the nature of love.
May 24, 2011
Broke is Beautiful Interview
I will be on Blog Talk Radio May 25 at 5:30 PM eastern.
The streaming interview will run about 40 minutes.
On my Broke is Beautiful blog, in honor of this interview, I am offering a free copy of Bad Predictions with an order of Broke is Beautiful. See the entry on the blog for details.
The streaming interview will run about 40 minutes.
On my Broke is Beautiful blog, in honor of this interview, I am offering a free copy of Bad Predictions with an order of Broke is Beautiful. See the entry on the blog for details.
May 3, 2011
The Crazily Ecclectic Collection of Books I Picked Up at my Church Rummage Sale
It may take me a while to read them:
At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh by Kathleen Powers Erickson
Red-Tails in Love by Marie Winn
Emerson's Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Step Off The Sidewalk: Sermons by Carolyn Owen-Towle
The Ancient Roots of Christianity by Rainbow Eagle
The Tao of Jesus by John Beverly Butcher
Patricarchy as a Conceptual Trap by Elizabeth Dodson Gray
The Sunflower- Simon Wiesenthal
The Psychiatric Study of Jesus by Albert Schweitzer
Haiku in English by Harold G. Henderson
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The Phone Book by Ammon Shea
The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur
Hideous Absinthe by Jad Adams and
Bosie by Douglas Mrray
At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh by Kathleen Powers Erickson
Red-Tails in Love by Marie Winn
Emerson's Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Step Off The Sidewalk: Sermons by Carolyn Owen-Towle
The Ancient Roots of Christianity by Rainbow Eagle
The Tao of Jesus by John Beverly Butcher
Patricarchy as a Conceptual Trap by Elizabeth Dodson Gray
The Sunflower- Simon Wiesenthal
The Psychiatric Study of Jesus by Albert Schweitzer
Haiku in English by Harold G. Henderson
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The Phone Book by Ammon Shea
The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur
Hideous Absinthe by Jad Adams and
Bosie by Douglas Mrray
March 13, 2011
A Four Star Ranting
Goodreads has become my obsessive hobby of late. I find myself going back in my mind trying to remember the books I have read at various times in my life, the books I would recommend, the books people might think I would like, which I did not. (I'm talking to you Jack Kerouac!)
Ever since I was in junior high school, sitting in the library to avoid the socially fraught landscape of the awkward years, I have kept a journal and responded to the books I read. Books have been a constant as I moved from state to state, job to job.
I remember almost none of the books I consumed voraciously in my junior high years. I remember loving Judy Blume and Lois Duncan.
I remember the books I was assigned in high school-- more than most because I was in the advanced English class and a special reader's group. For the most part I disliked the books I was assigned in school on principle. I hated to be told what to do, but To Kill a Mockingbird escaped my scorn. I thought the antique prose of Shakespeare was some sort of cruel test until I went to the University and took Dr. Bruce Mann's Shakespeare course. Hamlet is now my favorite work in the English language. I watch every production I can see. (Even that self-consciously hip and youthful Ethan Hawke version with all the bard's humor edited out in favor of soulful pouting.)
I fell in love with Douglas Adams and then Milan Kundera and Anais Nin. There were authors with whom I had a passing infatuation, and some who were more enduring loves.
I've read mountains of histories and books of odd facts and trivia. There was a time that I simply could not get enough of this kind of thing. Now I may have had enough of the odd facts type, but more fleshed out histories and social commentary fill my shelves.
There was my period of exploring Eastern thought when I was still young enough to believe that if I only read enough eventually I would be able to figure out the meaning of the universe. My working hypothesis now is that it has something to do with the creative urge, poetry and the muse; so I'm reading a lot on those subjects, but no longer expecting to ever reach any conclusions.
So I've read a lot of books.
It's remembering that is the challenge. Remembering, and the star rating system.
How do you rate a book on a scale of one to five? Do you strive for an objective measure of quality or something more subjective-- after all an author only writes half a book. The second half is brought by the reader.
How do you compare a book like The Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pyle with Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky? Do you, as I did, give Stephen Pile five stars because it is one of the best examples of this fun little genre-- entertaining anecdotes from the news and history. Or do you try to decide how it compares in the greater scheme of things to Mark Twain's best work and rate it accordingly?
When you gaze back to a book you read in college and you're now-- gulp-- unquestionably middle aged, do you try to remember how you felt about it then and rate it that way, or try to figure out how you might feel about it now? What kind of star rating do you put on The Baghavad Gita or The Bible?
Or perhaps I'm over thinking this application.
Ever since I was in junior high school, sitting in the library to avoid the socially fraught landscape of the awkward years, I have kept a journal and responded to the books I read. Books have been a constant as I moved from state to state, job to job.
I remember almost none of the books I consumed voraciously in my junior high years. I remember loving Judy Blume and Lois Duncan.
I remember the books I was assigned in high school-- more than most because I was in the advanced English class and a special reader's group. For the most part I disliked the books I was assigned in school on principle. I hated to be told what to do, but To Kill a Mockingbird escaped my scorn. I thought the antique prose of Shakespeare was some sort of cruel test until I went to the University and took Dr. Bruce Mann's Shakespeare course. Hamlet is now my favorite work in the English language. I watch every production I can see. (Even that self-consciously hip and youthful Ethan Hawke version with all the bard's humor edited out in favor of soulful pouting.)
I fell in love with Douglas Adams and then Milan Kundera and Anais Nin. There were authors with whom I had a passing infatuation, and some who were more enduring loves.
I've read mountains of histories and books of odd facts and trivia. There was a time that I simply could not get enough of this kind of thing. Now I may have had enough of the odd facts type, but more fleshed out histories and social commentary fill my shelves.
There was my period of exploring Eastern thought when I was still young enough to believe that if I only read enough eventually I would be able to figure out the meaning of the universe. My working hypothesis now is that it has something to do with the creative urge, poetry and the muse; so I'm reading a lot on those subjects, but no longer expecting to ever reach any conclusions.
So I've read a lot of books.
It's remembering that is the challenge. Remembering, and the star rating system.
How do you rate a book on a scale of one to five? Do you strive for an objective measure of quality or something more subjective-- after all an author only writes half a book. The second half is brought by the reader.
How do you compare a book like The Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pyle with Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky? Do you, as I did, give Stephen Pile five stars because it is one of the best examples of this fun little genre-- entertaining anecdotes from the news and history. Or do you try to decide how it compares in the greater scheme of things to Mark Twain's best work and rate it accordingly?
When you gaze back to a book you read in college and you're now-- gulp-- unquestionably middle aged, do you try to remember how you felt about it then and rate it that way, or try to figure out how you might feel about it now? What kind of star rating do you put on The Baghavad Gita or The Bible?
Or perhaps I'm over thinking this application.
March 7, 2011
Greetings
Thank you for looking at my author profile. I am new to using Goodreads as an author. I just wanted to use my first blog entry to note that I did not write any of the books which list "Laura Lee" as co-author. I hope to figure out how to correct that in the near future.
