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You could win this riveting novel about a forensic artist, written by a forensic artist! Carrie Stuart Park’s books are amazingly suspenseful, funny, and Christian.
It’s easy to enter my giveaways and your chance of winning one is higher than most other contests. See the end of this post to find the winner from my last Book Blast and the easy way to enter this time to be in to win Carrie’s book, Relative Silence. I’d love to hear from you.
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I was nearly ready to launch my book I Scream one night, when I was sitting in prayer meeting in our church in Montana, trying to focus on our pastor’s words. Three words popped into my head and stole my focus. “I Scream Social.” Suddenly, I knew I had the perfect way to celebrate my book launch. This would give local readers a way to get a taste of my new book, in both senses of the word.
As I delved deeper into contemporary art, I found out how classic abstract art influenced contemporary artists today. I gained new appreciation for “The Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch. I found some interesting work by Paul Klee, but I have to admit, I still don’t get anything out of Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings.
I couldn’t stop with merely learning more about contemporary art, however. I had to produce five-year-old Destiny’s fictional art. Paintings good enough to compete with adults and win prizes. These three paintings made Destiny a shooting star in the art world.
“Feline Guardians” was a stock photo.
“Feline Guardians” by Destiny Champion
To make “Beyond Childhood” I resorted to cutting out another silhouette and pasting it over a stock photo.
“Beyond Childhood” by Destiny Champion
For “I Scream,” however, I started with a blank canvas and a few tubes of acrylic paint.
“I Scream” by Destiny Champion
To make this picture, I felt only slightly intimidated creating art that was supposedly produced by a very skillful six-year-old. I spent hours ogling Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” blending colors, and trying to figure out how much of what I was doing would be able to be produced by such a young artist. (Thankfully, this painting only made it onto the back cover of the book and my Pinterest page. The cover photo for the book, a stock photo altered by a designer, was not intended to reproduce Destiny’s image.)
How can you define real art?
Recently, I’ve begun to think about how digital images blur the line between fact and fiction. Today art can be created and displayed without a canvas and paint, paper and ink, or any physical thing you can touch, feel, or smell. In the same way, I am witness to the fact that some fictional art is real, whether it exists only in the mind or is made of paper or canvas that is created by a real person for fictional purposes. So now I not only write fiction. I paint it as well. And I’m not even an artist!
A writer’s journey gives the author a much deeper experience in the world of her book than the reader will ever get. A writer sometimes sees, touches, smells, hears, and tastes a world before it ever gets passed on to the reader. Some of that book world is real and some is imagined, but creating a fictional world is one of the joys of writing.
See more about the art mentioned in I Scream on this Pinterest board.
You’ll also find great art humor and articles about two real life child prodigies.
Q: Since contemporary art is edgy art that challenges traditional boundaries and isn’t easy to define, who do you think should be qualified to judge it? How can we know if it is bogus or real? Or does it matter?
Q: What kind of art do you like most? Do you find it hard to appreciate art you don’t understand?
Don’t forget to answer a question or comment on anything in this Book Blast so you can go into the draw for my giveaway!
Book Giveaway from my last Book Blast: I gave away the entire Kindle Box Set for my Art Spotlight series to a random reader who commented on that BB. And the winner is . . . Eric P.
Today’s Book Blast giveaway will go to a person chosen at random from all those who answer one of these questions or comment on this post.
Carrie Stuart Parks is a forensic artist who teaches courses and writes books on the subject. She also writes amazingly funny and suspenseful fiction about forensic artists who help solve crimes. This book is one of them.
My review:
Sandpiper Boone’s past has left her fragile and claustrophobic. Her wealthy family owns most of the island where she lives. When she witnesses a murder of a close friend, she feels the need to get involved so the murder won’t be swept under the carpet. The past of Tucker Landry, a forensic artist, has left him fragile and afraid of boats and bodies of water. Piper and Tucker come together to solve the murder and find the secrets behind Piper’s “perfect family.”
I gave this book 5 stars for suspense. Though this book doesn’t have as much of a Christian feel as some of Carrie’s other books, she does bring God into the equation to a degree.
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I’ve been intrigued by the painting American Gothic by Grant Wood since 1963 when Country Corn Flakes used a couple of American Gothic lookalikes in this commercial. Since then the painting of the farmer with his pitchfork and stern daughter has become one of the most parodied paintings in the world. There’s something magic about this painting, partly because it has become such an American icon.
While my husband and I lived in New Zealand, we found this parody of the painting at the top the gondola ride that climbs Bob’s Peak in Queenstown. Not painted but formed entirely from a wide selection of Jelly Belly jelly beans.
In one form or another, American Gothic has been copied a bazillion times. We chose to make that a bazillion and one. When we moved to Iowa for retirement, we found ourselves living about an hour and a half from the real house Grant Wood duplicated in American Gothic. Last year, we just had to drive to Eldon, Iowa to see it. We borrowed costumes from the nearby gift store and planted our feet in front of the simple white house with the fancy Gothic window. This is our best imitation of the painting.
Fun, fun, fun! I even bought a coffee mug with a copy of the famous painting on it. Plus, a copy of the painting which now hangs on the wall beside our family version of it.
My real journey into my fictional art world
Déjà Who?, the second book in my Art Spotlight Series, is all about real vs. fake art. Forgeries and illusions form the art backbone of the plot. I needed a real image in my head so I could paint word pictures of them in the mind of my reader. You can find digital images of these paintings on this Pinterest board.
My Pins include:
Real paintings mentioned in the book
Art humor related to the book
Optical illusions and Lego reproductions of famous art mentioned in the book
But notIn the Garden by Helen M. Brady. (Since it is entirely fictional, I am not a great artist, and there is no way I could reproduce the painting, I leave the reader to imagine it.)
As a twenty-first century author, my first glimpses, usually my only glimpses of this art in the book, I found online. My foray through the art world and forgery, the art issue of this book, stretched my knowledge and fascinated me. I realized that sometimes it is a very thin line that separates fact from fiction and real from fake.
Fakes, Fiction, Forgery
To paint American Gothic, Grant Wood used this now-famous house to tell a story of Midwestern resilience and enduring values. The house was real. So was the resilience he saw during the depression. But the farmer and his daughter in the painting were not farmers, but models who met for the first time 12 years after the painting was finished. I like to think of the painting as a work of fiction that is true to life during the depression.
As I wrote my Art Spotlight Mysteries, I wanted to enter the world of my fictional characters. Know things they knew. Feel some of what they felt. Writing Déjà Who? took me into the fascinating world of forgery. Some experts believe that perhaps 20% of paintings in major museums may not be fully authentic or correctly attributed. An art lover will find that disturbing. Personally, I find it reassuring to know that, due to many technical details of the production of the piece, American Gothic’s authenticity has never been seriously questioned.
But let’s say you go to the Art Institute of Chicago and see the real American Gothic. You study the painting and search for meaning to it. Because it’s so famous, you feel honored just to stand before it. But what if you found out that the painting on the museum’s wall was actually a forgery? Would you feel cheated?
Absolutely!
Why?
Because when you or I go to a major art museum, we want to see the real deal. The original. Painted by Grant Wood before he was famous. You can buy prints of it in many places. But the genuine American Gothic, is one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century and a copy can’t take the place of that!
So, while prints can be nice, originals far outshine them. All the parodies and prints are just a reflection of the worth of the original. Even though I’ve studied a copy of the painting many times, I still want to travel to Chicago one day and see the real one!
I wanna be real!
Many people resent those who watch them too closely, but as I see it, with all of the spiritual advantages God has given me, my life should be worth watching. Thankfully, I don’t think most people expect Christians to be perfect, but they do expect us to have integrity. They expect us to be real. So this is what I’ve learned to pray.
Lord, help me to grow more and more like you. When I fall, and I will, inspire me to own my sin, change my ways, and become a genuine imitator of you.
Q: Have you ever noticed anyone imitating you? How does that make you feel?
Q: Who has been a role model for you sometime in your life? In what way would you like to be like that person?
Don’t forget the giveaway! I will give the entire Kindle Art Spotlight Box Set to a person chosen at random from all those who answer one of these questions or comment on this post. It’s so easy to go into the draw and your chances of winning are much higher than most giveaways!
Real or fake? Jordan must decide so he can defend his integrity in a confusing world of art. This box set contains the entire series of the Art Spotlight Mysteries. Book 1 – Broken Windows: Running away to Boise makes sense until a shadow from the past commits weird crimes to destroy Jordan’s credibility in the art community. Book 2 – Déjà Who?: Jordan never dreamed an innocent promise could cost him his career, but new accusations pull him into the past forcing him to ask, “Who am I?” all over again. Book 3 – I Scream: A child’s simple painting enters the world of contemporary art, challenging Jordan to re-examine his principles and to market art he can’t understand.
Today, all my subscribers can get a free book by me. Plus, posting a comment to this Book Blast will enter you into my giveaway of the book A Fool and His Monet by Sandra Orchard. See details at the end of this Book Blast.
Q: Have you ever had vandals spray graffiti on your property? How did it make you feel? Probably annoyed that you had to paint over it. Perhaps ticked off that some vandal had the audacity to damage your property.
But imagine that you are an artist, looking for recognition in the art world. You enter your best work in a prestigious art contest. And you lose the award you crave. To an anonymous “artist.” For nothing more than graffiti!
In Broken Windows, the first book in my Art Spotlight series, graffiti becomes personal to Jordan.
Zaxx, a Banksy copycat in Denver, paints graffiti that gets entered in a legitimate art contest. If it’s not bad enough that Zaxx damages someone else’s property, that piece of “art” snatches a trophy from Jordan. When Jordan is falsely accused of a crime, he moves from the area, but the graffiti guy seems to follow him, creating new havoc in Boise. Adding insult to injury, many people find Zaxx’s spray painting endearing. Zaxx becomes a hero who steals attention from legitimate artists who work hard to perfect their craft.
I’m not an artist, but I could feel Jordan’s pain at the unfairness Zaxx inflicted on him in Broken Windows. I think artists and authors must share a similar creative process as they breathe life into a fictional world. Both learn to love the world they create, but ache when the real world doesn’t appreciate their work. Still, creating a fiction world and sharing it with others drives them to continue their craft in a way a non-storyteller can seldom understand.
Today, I’m going to give you a glimpse into the world of an author who lives her fiction before she writes it. On the outside I’m a mild mannered recently-retired missionary, but I have a secret alter-ego who designs art, concocts recipes, and creates worlds that only exist in fiction. My “Art Spotlight Mysteries” took me into parts of the art world that I had never explored before. For the first time, I felt the sting of injustice that a true artist feels when art shows an evil side.
Early in the plotting process for Broken Windows, I chose graffiti as the predominant art form. I figured graffiti would be the ultimate insult to any serious artist. For inspiration, I studied the work of Banksy, the foremost graffiti artist on the planet. Then I designed a character named Zaxx, a Banksy copycat, to make Jordan’s life miserable.
Now, even though I gravitate easily to crafts, I’m definitely not an artist. Still, I needed to come up with fictional art to go with my fictional character. I needed very specific graffiti to fit the plot of Broken Windows. Not content to just to describe the images, I wanted to include real images in my book for the reader to see. Starting with silhouettes I downloaded from the internet, I doctored some images and crafted others, cutting them out of red and black paper. The result was six graffiti images which you can view in the book. Though my images are real, the prizes for them are fictional. I used my real images to become a copycat artist telling the story of a fictional copycat. J
You can see all the graffiti images on my Pinterest Board. (The image of the girl with the heart shaped balloon is by Banksy. The other graffiti images are mine.) Plus, a great Michelangelo cartoon, and some real Boise art mentioned in Broken Windows.
Not all of the art in the book is fictional, however. As I sat at my desk in New Zealand, I took a desk chair journey to Boise, Idaho to search for art Jordan would love. It didn’t take me long to find gorgeous sculptures of children by Ann LaRose. I contacted the artist and received her permission to include her pictures of them in my book. After the book was complete (but before an extensive revision), I returned to the States for a furlough. In 2011, I actually saw the real statue with my own eyes. I borrowed a broom from a nearby Subway, brushed the leaves from “Keepsies,” and snapped photo after photo of it.
My research had turned into writing and, in the end, actual on-site experience. It’s sort of a backwards way to experience art, but it makes writing possible from a distant location. Recently, I re-read Broken Windows and was repeatedly surprised by things my reader-self had forgotten that my writer-self had written.
Q: Have you ever lost an honor or a prize because of an unfair situation? How did you get past that unfair situation? I’d love to hear about it. Just leave a comment below to go into the draw for my free giveaway.
Enter the draw for a free giveaway of A Fool and His Monet by Sandra Orchard. All you have to do to enter is to leave a comment to any questions in this Book Blastin a comment box below.
Serena Jones has a passion for recovering lost and stolen art–one that’s surpassed only by her zeal to uncover the truth about the art thief who murdered her grandfather. She’s joined the FBI Art Crime Team with the secret hope that one of her cases will lead to his killer. Now, despite her mother’s pleas to do something safer–like get married–Serena’s learning how to go undercover to catch thieves and black-market traders.
Deb says:A Fool and His Monet was a fun read with realistic characters to care about and shake your head at. It was lightly Christian with very light romance. I love the titles in this series: 1. A Fool and His Monet 2. Another Day, Another Dali 3. Over Maya Dead Body
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As I write this Book Blast, my husband, Art, is in Liberia, West Africa, speaking to a group of 450 people from 48 African churches. This ministry is hugely different from the ministries we’ve had in Taiwan and New Zealand. For one thing, five of the times he spoke he had three interpreters, interpreting into the Bassa, Mano, Kpelle languages, one right after another. “With three interpreters,” Art says, “fifteen minutes of English can turn into a one-hour sermon!”
While he’s serving in Africa, I’m working on some author projects that I haven’t been able to do for the last five or so years. Since 2021:
I published my most recent book series, “New Beginnings”
Art and I brought our 47 years of full-time missionary service to a close
We passed our work on to a national pastor
We moved our “home” back to America
We found a new church home and began new ministries in it
I had to put many author tasks aside during these five years, but now, as an indie (independent) author, I know I have to work harder to find new readers for my books. While Art’s gone, I’m beginning to make plans to do that. Deb’s Book Blast is a major part of that plan. You’ll see some new changes in coming Book Blasts which, I hope, you will enjoy.
Along with working with Bible college students, in our home church and singing in our church choir, I’ve also become the librarian for our church library. It has needed a revamp for some time and our pastors have fully supported it moving forward. Part of that has been adding newer Christian books which will be helpful and enjoyable to our church people. What’s the top thing I look for in Christian fiction? Books that show Christian characters who are active in ministry, reaching out to help others around them. Finding Christian ministry as a main part of a fiction book plot can be challenging, but worth the effort.
Goodreads has been an important tool for me, making this task far easier. For many years I’ve kept a record of almost every Christian book I read on my Goodreads bookshelves, along with a star rating and a review that helps me know what I liked or didn’t like about the book. Now, years after I’ve read books, I can consult my reviews to know which books to recommend to others, include in our church library, and mention in my Book Blasts.
Here are some books, each the first in a series I’ve brought into our church library, plus one that I may bring in soon. Each of these fiction series show Christians in ministry reaching out to others with spiritual, and sometimes physical, needs. If you’re looking for a new book to read, you might start here. I’ve loved these and I hope you will too.
Cape Refuge by Terri Blackstock (Cape Refuge Series)
Now for the Giveaway!
Beneath a Southern Sky by Deborah Raney.
Warning! If you read the Amazon review of this book, it will spoil the most compelling parts of the plot! I don’t want to do that, so just let me say that this story begins in the Amazon jungle with tensions that are natural in that setting. Then the location moves to America and the plot twists in ways I never ever expected. The book challenges the reader to trust God, to seek his will, and follow his leading. I just finished reading this book for the second time and, though I knew the plot twist ahead of time, I still really enjoyed it. Such an intriguing situation with no easy answers, but I appreciate how the author resolved this. Though the content is entirely appropriate for a Christian marriage, there are some brief mentions of marital intimacy that make it most suitable for married adults.
To enter the giveaway for the free ebook, simply leave a comment below or send a comment to: DebBrammer@gmail.com. You can enter by sharing the name of one of these things:
A Christian book that inspired you to live for Christ
Your favorite subgenre of fiction (contemporary, historical, romance, mystery, suspense)
A book that includes Christian ministry as a major plot line
A book you’ve enjoyed reading recently
Thanks for taking the time to enter. I’ll announce the winner’s name in the next Book Blast.
Everyone gets a freebie today! Scroll down to get afree Thanksgiving short story that is sure to touch the heart.
Then go into the draw to win these twofree ebooks! Edges of Truth: The Mary Weaver Story and I Survived! 5 Bible Characters Who Survived Disasters. The first book is a memoir that will inspire you and the second is the companion Bible story that goes with the memoir. With each Book Blast I usually give away a book written by a different author, but this time the books are by me, Deb Brammer. Scroll down for more details.
Have you ever gone through a difficult period of time when it seemed God was watching your life go by with his hands in his pockets? Maybe you did your best, only to experience failure, unfairness or unrelieved suffering. You prayed fervently but God didn’t seem to be listening.
It can be hard to trust God at times like these, but God does see and care for us, even when it doesn’t seem like it. Sometimes God is workingout his plan, but we can’t see any evidence of it yet.
Steve Brennecke can testify to this. When his friend from church, Mary Weaver, was charged with the murder of a baby she provided care for, Steve, a young lawyer, did his best to defend her. He knew Mary was innocent, but at the end of her second trial, the judge declared her guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole. How could God allow this sweet mother of two young children to receive such a sentence?
Steve worked with an appeal lawyer, Paul Rosenberg, to find enough evidence enough to warrant a new trial, but God seemed to be observing the process with his hands in his pockets. Steve’s best work had produced his worst nightmare. His failure had sentenced an innocent client to life in prison. God hadn’t prevented the unfair verdict. Steve had resigned himself to the reality that Mary would die of old age in prison.
Then one day, one ruling changed everything. Steve could finally see the fingerprints of God.
I was privileged to write this true story, Edges of Truth: The Mary Weaver Story, with the help of Mary and my friend, Steve Brennecke. With the help of my husband, Art, I also wrote a Bible study book, I Survived! 5 Bible Characters Who Survived Disasters, to go with Mary’s story. Mary, Steve and I launched both books on November 22, 2013. God blessed the book launch when Mary’s supporters filled our beautiful venue in Marshalltown, Iowa. Mary, Steve and I had the opportunity to each tell what amazing things God had done to bring Mary out of prison and then bring these books to print.
In 2013, when the books were launched, Art and I lived in New Zealand where Art pastored a mission church. Twelve years later, we live in Iowa, just a ten-minute drive from the prison in which Mary was incarcerated for two years. We now visit an inmate there that had also been incarcerated when Mary was there for two years. And currently I’m teaching a ladies’ Sunday School class using I Survived! Our home and church are no longer ten thousand miles away from the prison. Now all three are within a ten-minute drive of each other.
As I teach this class week by week, I remember Mary’s simple faith in God and the way he worked in her life. But as I look at the years from 2009-2013, I realize God was preparing me to write the Bible study before I even heard Mary’s story. Two years before I heard Mary’s story, I went through a very difficult time in my own life. That situation helped prepare me to write I Survived! in a way that would really help readers. God also brought a book to my attention that helped me in the writing process. On Being a Servant of God by Warren Wiersbe really helped me know how to respond to personal conflict in a way that honored God. As I wrote chapter 6 in the Bible study book, I could present a good picture of what forgiveness looks like. That helped some of the ladies in my class.
But God’s timing was perfect in other ways as well. As I taught the Bible studies, I realized how many events had to fall into place at just the right time to enable us to write Mary’s story and launch it. From 2011-2013 God worked things in our lives so I could come back to the USA twice, one time to interview Steve and Mary in person and the next time to launch the book. Steve also came to New Zealand twice, one time when I heard Mary’s story, and next time to bring a huge box of court transcripts with him on the plane.
Perfect timing doesn’t always look perfect going forward. Looking back, however, often shows how God is working all things according to his plan. I hope you can see the fingerprints of God in your own life today.
Now for the freebies.
Your free Thanksgiving story, Prison Blues: A Thanksgiving Challenge, is here.
Enter the giveaway for the free ebooks, Edges of Truth: The Mary Weaver StoryandI Survived! 5 Bible Characters Who Survived Disasters. To enter, simply leave a comment below telling what you are thankful for this Thanksgiving. You have a much higher chance of winning this drawing that most other drawings, so why not take a few moments to share your blessings?
Christmas is coming!
Books make a great gift for the readers in your life. I’ve posted links to buy all 12 of my books below and have even given you tips about the best places to purchase them. If you need a last-minute stocking stuffer, ebooks work great for that as well. All of my books are distinctively Christian and challenge the reader to live for Christ.
Whatever your plans are for Thanksgiving and Christmas, may the Lord open your eyes to his great love and many of the blessings he gives his children.
Deb
Books for Adults
(The New Beginnings Series and the Art Spotlight Mysteries are also very suitable for ages 15 and up.) My adult books are only available on Amazon. They are all available as paperbacks, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited.
Edges of Truth: The Mary Weaver Story: When a baby dies from head injuries, an innocent babysitter is accused and uncertainty forces experts to define the Edges of Truth.
Short Poppies: New Zealand sounds more like a tourist destination than a mission field, but when Levi is thrust into a short-term ministry there, things aren’t as easy as he expected.
Give It a Go Pastor Greg needs a new wife, but how can he begin to date when he lives in the goldfish bowl of a mission church, ten thousand miles away from his home in America?
Pop In for a Cuppa: At fifty-two, Jennifer has never felt called to missions, but dating veteran missionary Greg Fischer makes her rethink almost every area of her life.
Art Spotlight Series:
Broken Windows: Running away to Boise makes sense until a shadow from the past commits weird crimes to destroy Jordan’s credibility in the art community.
Déjà Who? : Jordan never dreamed an innocent promise could coast him his career, but new accusations pull him into the past, forcing him to ask, “Who am I?” all over again.
I Scream: A child’s simple painting enters the world of contemporary art, challenging Jordan to re-examine his principles and to market art he can’t understand.
JourneyForth Books for kids and teens
My JourneyForth books (BJU Press) books are available from BJU Press, Amazon, and Christian Book Distributors (CBD.) I don’t have price control over these books, but I can tell you where to get the best buys.
Tips on choosing a distributor to buy my JourneyForth books from:
Only JourneyForth (BJU Press) has the newest cover and illustrations for Peanut ButterFriends in a Chop Suey World as a paperbackand this is the most attractive version of the four versions they’ve printed. (Not that the old covers weren’t nice, but this one is especially nice.)
JourneyForth doesn’t sell the Kindle version of these four books, but Amazon and CBD does.
As I write this, CBD now is offering the lowest price ($5.59) on the Kindle version of these four books.
As I write this, CBD is also offering the paperback version of Two Sides to Everything for $5.19, saving 42%!
Buy kid/teens books directly from JourneyForth:
Peanut Butter Friends in a Chop Suey World(age 8-12) (paperback only): Amy finds herself in a whole new world when she moves to Taiwan with her missionary parents and brothers.
Two Sides to Everything (age 8-12): Going to New Zealand while his mom recovers from a serious accident, Josh experiences another side to all kinds of things he thought he understood.
Moose (teens): Cody finds that living with a miracle can take a lot of patience—especially when that miracle is a new, struggling Christian friend.
Careful Enough? (uses my pen name, Dillon Forbes, as author): Daniel spends his senior year moving to a Chinese city with his parents to help start a secret house church.
Two Sides to Everything (age 8-12): Going to New Zealand while his mom recovers from a serious accident, Josh experiences another side to all kinds of things he thought he understood.
Moose (teen): Cody finds that living with a miracle can take a lot of patience—especially when that miracle is a new, struggling Christian friend.
Careful Enough? (uses my pen name, Dillon Forbes, as author): Daniel spends his senior year moving to a Chinese city with his parents to help start a secret house church.
Buy kid/teens books from Christian Book Distributors (CBD):
Peanut Butter Friends in a Chop Suey World (age 8-12): Amy finds herself in a whole new world when she moves to Taiwan with her missionary parents and brothers. (Right now CBD seems to only be selling this book with the older cover.)
Two Sides to Everything (age 8-12): Going to New Zealand while his mom recovers from a serious accident, Josh experiences another side to all kinds of things he thought he understood.
Moose (teen): Cody finds that living with a miracle can take a lot of patience—especially when that miracle is a new, struggling Christian friend. (Right now CBD seems to only have the ebook for this one.)
Careful Enough? (uses my pen name, Dillon Forbes, as author name): Daniel spends his senior year moving to a Chinese city with his parents to help start a secret house church.
