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October 28, 2012
In His Stead and HeartsApart.org
October 24, 2012
In His Stead eBook Now Available
Bloggers praise In His Stead (http://IronWordPress.com)
Itasca Books (http://www.itascabooks.com has the paperback available right now.
October 23, 2012
I’m Moving…
With the launch of my new novel, “In His Stead (A Father’s War)”, I’m moving my posts and activity to a new website, IronWordPress.com
Join me there,
Cheers,
Judith
October 9, 2012
In His Stead Featured on CMashlovestoread.com
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Scenes From Our Soldiers
The attached scenes came through an email with a request that readers “DO NOT FORGET” our soldiers who are serving and those who have fallen in Afghanistan. The pictures speak for themselves (the captions are mine) BUT let’s be sure to add our voices to speak for those soldiers.
Sleep When You Can
Rest When You Must
Stay out of the Dust
July 27, 2012
In His Stead (A Father’s War) Due out in November
Judith Sanders announced today that IronWord Press, LLC will publish her latest novel, In His Stead (A Father’s War), in November. Three years in the making, 
In His Stead is
A Tale of Redemption and the Power of a Father’s Love
The cause of war may have changed since America’s conception.
But the loss of a child remains unbearable.
Retired Army Ranger Thomas Lane once burned for the taste of gunpowder and the thrill of the battle. But as he struggles to cope with his own PTSD and the death of his eldest son, killed by an IED in Afghanistan, Lane learns that the price of war is far too dear.
Now the National Guard is calling on Lane’s youngest son to serve. Consumed with sorrow, Lane knows he will do anything to save his child—even if it means going in his place, a pursuit unheard of since the Civil War when slaves were sent to war in place of their masters, and one still drenched in derision.
In His Stead, the second novel by acclaimed author Judith Sanders, follows the tumultuous battle of Thomas Lane as he fights the United States Army, its JAG corps, a vengeful officer, the very son he is desperate to save, and his own wife, who has the Solomon like choice of losing either a husband or a son.
Capturing the essence of family life in wartime—the good, the bad, and the hopeful—In His Stead explores what it means to be a father and a man.
March 15, 2012
Presenting a writing seminar at Oyster Bay Beach Resort in St. Maarten
Judith responding to a question about her writing.
December 22, 2011
"One Bird-flu Over the Coockoo's Nest"
On 21 December 2011 the world became a more dangerous place.
My co-author, Dr. Frank Malinoski has this to say: On that date we learned that a science article was to be censored (see NYTimes article here). Historic and unprecedented, yes. And Tony Fauci, head of the US NIH is quoted as saying that some would ask why the research, to create a form of Bird Flu that would be highly contagious, was done in the first place. Now THAT should have been the headline and THAT is why we are in more danger today.
We could debate the ethics of censorship and the well intentioned efforts of the NIH staff who funded the research and the scientific prowess of the investigators in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin but the bottom line is this: As a result of this work the US is now in possession of the means to make a biological weapon more deadly than nature itself has done thusfar. I'm not saying that somewhere in the bowels of government there is a secret organization that wants such weapons, but remember it was not long ago that Vice President Dick Cheney convinced the government to hang on to its stocks of smallpox virus "just in case" we needed to study smallpox again (even though it's been absent from the general population for 40 years). To me, the only thing that distinguishes this work from the illegal biological weapons activity of the former Soviet Union (and many other clandestine programs around the world by the way) is the "openness" of the disclosure, at least until the work was censored….
And the real question for scientists and their conscience is why there is a need to do this type of research? It is not sufficient to say "because we can". It is not sufficient to say "because nature may do it some time in the future and we need to know what nature will do." There are so many other important and deadly diseases causing harm NOW. What we need are solutions to treatment and prevention of those diseases, not "improvements" in any bug's ability to cause disease.
And I'm afraid these scientists will now be faced with reflecting on what Einstein said a few months before his death as he contemplated his contributions to the construction of the atomic bomb, "Perhaps I can be forgiven".
“One Bird-flu Over the Coockoo’s Nest”
On 21 December 2011 the world became a more dangerous place.
My co-author, Dr. Frank Malinoski has this to say: On that date we learned that a science article was to be censored (see NYTimes article here). Historic and unprecedented, yes. And Tony Fauci, head of the US NIH is quoted as saying that some would ask why the research, to create a form of Bird Flu that would be highly contagious, was done in the first place. Now THAT should have been the headline and THAT is why we are in more danger today.
We could debate the ethics of censorship and the well intentioned efforts of the NIH staff who funded the research and the scientific prowess of the investigators in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin but the bottom line is this: As a result of this work the US is now in possession of the means to make a biological weapon more deadly than nature itself has done thusfar. I’m not saying that somewhere in the bowels of government there is a secret organization that wants such weapons, but remember it was not long ago that Vice President Dick Cheney convinced the government to hang on to its stocks of smallpox virus “just in case” we needed to study smallpox again (even though it’s been absent from the general population for 40 years). To me, the only thing that distinguishes this work from the illegal biological weapons activity of the former Soviet Union (and many other clandestine programs around the world by the way) is the “openness” of the disclosure, at least until the work was censored….
And the real question for scientists and their conscience is why there is a need to do this type of research? It is not sufficient to say “because we can”. It is not sufficient to say “because nature may do it some time in the future and we need to know what nature will do.” There are so many other important and deadly diseases causing harm NOW. What we need are solutions to treatment and prevention of those diseases, not “improvements” in any bug’s ability to cause disease.
And I’m afraid these scientists will now be faced with reflecting on what Einstein said a few months before his death as he contemplated his contributions to the construction of the atomic bomb, “Perhaps I can be forgiven”.
November 24, 2011
Ebony Book Club Event
Judith and her Crescent Veil co-author Dr. Frank Malinoski spent a wonderful evening recently with the members of Wilmington's Ebony Book Club. 
What wonderful and insightful discussions around Crescent Veil, my motivation for writing, and the history of biological weapons. The fellowship, friendship, and dinner were awesome. I can't wait to share the sequel with this great group of readers and thinkers.
