Janet Sketchley's Blog: Tenacity, page 107
October 21, 2013
Review: Messages, by John Michael Hileman
Messages, by John Michael Hileman (Amlin Publishing, 2011)
David Chance is a journalism intern with the news team for a Boston television station. He’s an ordinary guy, married with two kids. One day he starts noticing random words and stringing them into messages. Messages that tell the future or that tell him what to do next.
Who’s sending them? David’s dead brother-in-law? God? Or David’s own mind?
All he knows is, the messages are true. And they’ve thrust him into a terrorist bomb plot.
Why h...
October 18, 2013
Heaven’s Prey: the villain
Understand one thing. If this were real, I wouldn’t be talking to you. Period. Some tabloid journalist came once, and I was bored enough to see him. Wanted the inside scoop on what I’d done, what it felt like … [Harry's lip curls] Your nice little Christian blogger here wouldn’t dare print the language I used to tell him off.
[He scans th...
October 16, 2013
God and Time Management
My times are in your hands;
deliver me from the hands of my enemies,
from those who pursue me.
Psalm 31:15, NIV*
The most important thing I learned in university had nothing to do with my field of study. I learned, through experience, that when the deadlines loomed and there was more to do than time to do it, I could ask God to help.
Our God is outside of time. He made time. We live in it, and He gives us enough to do what He has for us to do. I remember one specific time in university, praying...
October 14, 2013
Review: How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny
How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books, 2013)
Author Louise Penny has woven a masterpiece of characters, plot and evocative description in her latest mystery. How the Light Gets In traces the investigation of an elderly woman’s murder while at the same time continuing a plot thread that’s been building from the series beginning.
You could jump into the series here and understand this book, but you’d miss so much of the larger story that’s been building around Inspector Gamache a...
October 11, 2013
Heaven’s Prey: the frantic husband
Tony Warner is married to Ruth from Heaven’s Prey. I don’t have a picture of him to share, but he’s average height, a bit on the cuddly side weight-wise, with sandy hair and beard, and he wears glasses.
Tony quirks an eyebrow, shrugs at you and starts talking:
“Cuddly side”? I suppose that beats “chunky.” Hey, is it my fault my wife’s an amazing cook? Not that she did a lot of it after we lost Susan, our niece. We lived on takeout for months.
I thought I was going to lose Ruth, too. She was drow...
Introducing Tony Warner from Heaven’s Prey
Tony Warner is married to Ruth from Heaven’s Prey. I don’t have a picture of him to share, but he’s average height, a bit on the cuddly side weight-wise, with sandy hair and beard, and he wears glasses.
Tony quirks an eyebrow, shrugs at you and starts talking:
“Cuddly side”? I suppose that beats “chunky.” Hey, is it my fault my wife’s an amazing cook? Not that she did a lot of it after we lost Susan, our niece. We lived on takeout for months.
I thought I was going to lose Ruth, too. She was drow...
October 9, 2013
Glory, Not Shame
Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign Lord: I am bringing you back, but not because you deserve it. I am doing it to protect my holy name, on which you brought shame while you were scattered among the nations.
Ezekiel 36:22, NLT*
Israel’s ungodly behaviour caused the Babylonian exile in the first place. Set apart to be a holy people, living in fellowship with God as a light to the people around them, they copied their neighbours instead. They abandoned the Living...
October 7, 2013
Review: The Church Builder, by A. L. Shields
The Church Builder, by A. L. Shields (Zondervan, 2013)
One day, Bethany Barclay’s biggest worry is keeping her small-town law practice afloat. The next, there’s a dead body in her home and she’s on the run from the FBI. Who framed her, and why? Is it connected to the recent hit and run death of her best friend, Annabelle?
Following clues, barely keeping ahead of the FBI, Bethany realizes that somebody wants her to finish what Annabelle started. But what is that? And for whom?
Bethany is a pawn i...
October 4, 2013
Heaven’s Prey: the woman in peril
Today I welcome a very special guest to my blog. Ruth Warner has lived in my head for almost 20 years now, and I’m excited to introduce her to the world.
Ruth is the heroine in my novel, Heaven’s Prey—that’s her picture on the cover. She and her husband, Tony, are in their mid-forties. We’re chatting with Ruth today just before the novel begins, because (whispering so she won’t hear) she’s about to be abducted by an escaped convict.
Ruth (rolling eyes): How many times have you rewritten or edit...
Interview: Ruth Warner from Heaven’s Prey
Today I welcome a very special guest to my blog. Ruth Warner has lived in my head for almost 20 years now, and I’m excited to introduce her to the world.
Ruth is the heroine in my novel, Heaven’s Prey—that’s her picture on the cover. She and her husband, Tony, are in their mid-forties. We’re chatting with Ruth today just before the novel begins, because (whispering so she won’t hear) she’s about to be abducted by an escaped convict.
Ruth (rolling eyes): How many times have you rewritten or edit...
