Books

The challenge in writing about a story in which the reader already knows, or thinks they know , the characters, events and ultimate outcome, is how to make it fresh, inspiring and unexpected without compromising the themes and principles at the core of the story. How does the writer avoid popular perceptions, traditions and clichés to create a work in which the characters live, breathe, and interact with uncompromising realism on each page? Aspiring authors of Biblical and Historical Fiction could take a few pointers from author Tosca Lee who has successfully accomplished all this and more in her novel Havah: The Story of Eve. Havah, (the Hebrew name for Eve) finally gives the first woman her own voice and takes the reader through her amazing journey.

Same Kind of Different as Me tells the unlikely true story of the unlikeliest of friends, Denver Moore, Ron Hall and Hall’s faith-filled wife Deborah who, under God’s guidance, brought them together. Denver Moore had a rough life growing up dirt poor in rural Louisiana. He was a sharecropper who scraped out a meager existence not very different from those of his ancestors in the days of slavery. Ron Hall was a self-made millionaire who was more concerned with investing in art and wealth than in people until his wife Deborah convinced him that they had a calling from God to serve the poor. Prompted by Deborah’s faith and persistence Ron reluctantly reached out to Denver and what started out as volunteer work at a Fort Worth homeless shelter gradually developed into what would become an amazing life-changing friendship between the Halls and Denver Moore.

For the past twenty years Too Busy Not to Pray has stood as a classic on prayer, helping Christians all over the world slow down to draw near to God.