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Two new articles
It's been a busy couple of weeks. First, by popular demand, I've rolled out audio versions of some short stories. You can listen to them in the car or while exercising. They can be found at this link on my website. Second, some of my readers may not know, or may have...
Audio-short stories now available
Hello friends, It's been a while, hasn't it! You don't get much email from me. That's because I make it a policy not to become annoying with too frequent blog posts filling your inbox that you probably, if you are like me, must endure every day. I'm trying to be...
Calling all Catholics
Writing a modernized account of the biblical gospel comes with a new challenge I've never encountered in fiction writing. I continue to add material to my forthcoming book Blue Gospel, and I've recently added an account of the central figure's birth by a young girl...
PSA: Whitworth Writer’s Workshop
You may have heard that my Alma Mater, the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University, will come to an end this August. I and my fellow students cannot express our heartbreak at learning that forces within the conservative board and administration had decided to fire...
Book Cover Reveal
My latest novel is called BLUE GOSPEL. It could be available as early as this summer. But this week I got cover art finalized, so I am happy to show off the new book. BLUE GOSPEL is a 20th century update of the biblical gospel story from the perspective of the minor...
Upcoming book announcement – BLUE GOSPEL
Hello friends! My posts to this blog are so infrequent, you could be forgiven for forgetting that you signed up! But now is NOT the time to give up and unsubscribe. I am very excited to announce a book project that has been in the works for over a year. The idea for...
The Day Jesus Returned to Earth
On the day Jesus returned to earth, I was at my desk laboring to finish a novel that I hoped would get me hooked up with a new agent, who could help me find me a publisher, and jumpstart my writing career which was all but dead after the lackluster showing of my debut...
Dantelle in Spring, 2015
Dantelle in Spring, 2015 By Jeffrey Allen Mays Dantelle walks, almost hovers, beside a whitecapped river that chuckles and flashes in the morning light. She blesses the cantos of the doves and whippoorwills, the regular bursts of knocking from a distant woodpecker,...
The Parable of the Five Kinds of Soil
The Mystic spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “A Sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell upon soil depleted due to overharvesting, and the seed never germinated because it could get no nutrients. Some seed fell where the soil was sown with...
Departed mother
My mother passed away a week ago. I normally avoid the phrase 'passed away' because I don't see anything wrong with saying 'she died,' but I know that some people are more sensitive than I am. Since that morning last Monday, I have had many wonderful friends and...
