| Special Blog Tour Offer To celebrate the release of The Bishop, we are offering a prize drawing for those who participate in the blog tour! To be entered in the drawing, you need to post an original review of the book and post a button for the Facebook Party on your blog.
The winner will be drawn at random and notified in early August. The Details
• Reply by June 27, 2010
• Post your review between August 1st and 7th, 2010
• Post a button for The Bishop Facebook Party on your blog (Button will be provided). WARNING: This book contains violence and graphic descriptions of disturbing crime scenes. It takes the reader inside the minds of psychopathic killers. |
 The Prize
A storage tote containing:
**Autographed copies of all four books in the Bowers Files series—
The Pawn, The Rook, The Knight, and The Bishop
**Three bags of gourmet coffee: Ethiopian, Costa Rican, and Indonesian
**Two mugs
**A wooden chess set |
 A Word from the Author
“Why I Write about Evil”
In my books I want people to look honestly at what our world is like, both the good and the evil. The evil in my books is not senseless; people’s lives are treated as precious and I want my readers to hurt when an innocent life is taken. The only way to do that is to let them see it on the page and then reflect on its meaning.
I think that an effective way of dissuading someone from doing something is to make them see it as deeply disturbing. And the only way to make people disturbed by evil is to show it to them as what it really is.
I believe that including graphic material within the broader context of a redemptive story, just as the Bible does, is appropriate when trying to reveal the truth about human nature and our relationship with the Divine. For the record, when I write my novels I strive to:
- uphold the dignity and worth of human life,
- as much as possible avoid showing violence on the page (most of it occurs off the page, in the mind of the reader),
- show that ultimately, hope does not come from inside ourselves, but from God,
- honestly portray the universality of evil,
- celebrate life, love, imagination, beauty, and family,
- validate the purpose and meaning of life within the context of the broader scope of God's story, and
- tell the truth about the world--exposing the grief and horror as well as championing the hope and joy.
I believe that the Bible includes graphic material to show how far we as a race can fall, and how far God came to rescue us from ourselves. That's what I hope to do in my novels as well.
To read the entire article from Steven James on this topic, visit his blog. |
