A little bit about what went into influencing the story.
- This one was another weird one for me. I mean, if ever I had been informed say five years ago that I might be an author one day, there’s a chance I would have believed you. However, if you’d said an author, who would write a first person narrated tail from the perspective of a 16 year girl then I would have thought you were nuts. The good Lord does work in mysterious ways. This is my fourth book that I have taken the perspective from the feminine side of the story and I have to say that along with the other three books (A Warrior’s Return, Agent with a History, The Proverbial War) that I think this is one of my best stories. I don’t know why that is, but as my wife put it, ‘it’s just such a good story’ and I agree with her and hopefully so do you.
- This book had some really hard moments to write. I really struggled about what to do in order to convey across the rape scene. It’s not my objective to be overtly explicit in my books when it comes to sex, but the situation faced in this story demanded otherwise. To many times I believe in Christian fiction when such real life situations are encountered the objective seems to be to take a bunch of white wash paint and cover up what really happened and fast forward to the aftermath of what happens the next day and then shove it under the carpet from there on. Is that really beneficial to anyone? I don’t think so. In all my writing I seek to define reality in both the flaws of my characters as well the environments that they interact in and sometimes to do that it requires a little extra explanation to do so and I think in the end it is better, because then you the reader have a better understanding and connection with the elements of the story and how they might relate to your own life in some way, at least that is my goal. I’m sorry if I offended anyone, but I write what I feel God leads me to write and my goal as an author is to never deviate away from that path whether it tramples on social acceptableness protocols or not.
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