“I’ve never won anything!” You know you’ve said it yourself. So have I. But yesterday I won something. My newly-published novella, His Sign: The Wait Is Over, won an award from Radiqx Press’s Reality Calling: Christian Fiction. Peter Younghusband and David Bergsland both read and review Christian fiction, especially in the Speculative genre, for redemptive qualities. I am honored and humbled to have received this award.
Here is an excerpt from Peter’s review:
Here is the full review on Peter’s blog:
He has many great reviews. If you are looking for God-honoring fiction please become a follower. Considering his long reading list, you can appreciate how blessed I feel to have been chosen for a read and review.
Here’s a video about the writing process, with a snippet:
Here is an excerpt:
“Yep. Sure enough, God had something different in mind,” Jonas said. He kept his eyes on the road but his grip tightened on the wheel. “I feel like now I went the wrong way, becoming a minister ahead of schedule, and tried to drag Anna with me, though. I feel like I failed, and I’m afraid … I’m afraid to fail again.
“When you all showed up at the church, ready to move, I knew I was supposed to go with you, but now … farm work – it’s so comfortable, so easy, compared to all the work of trying to build that church. And I got my Anna back. I feel like maybe this is what I am supposed to do, and I should just stay here, start a little gathering for worship. We could set up that refuge or storage or whatever you need, Drew, you and Hass and her people, but … I still don’t know the next step. Maybe there isn’t any next step, for me, except to be here, to make this place into your refuge – a refuge for anybody who wants to come home to Christ.”
“How do you think I feel?” Drew said. “I was a successful guy, doing work I loved, and doing good, besides. You know, saving the world, or at least little bits of it. A success, in every imaginable sense of the word. Now I’m a bankrupt, paranoid, homeless guy with a death sentence from lots more people than Nomie Harker. And I owe for repairs to an apartment that spirit-world monsters blew apart.”
If you would like to read the book for yourself, here it is on Amazon:
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Going to download this book. Love your books! Wondering though…one of the reviews says the book ends with a cliff hanger. This book doesn’t say that it is book 1. And I don’t see another book named 2. Have book one and two been combined? Or was the reviewer wrong?
Oh, thank you! Apologies for the confusion. It is the first in a series. I updated the description but Amazon hasn’t updated it yet. Book one now has the first chapter from book 2 included, but I’m still working on book 2 now.
Congratulations, Mary!! Is this the book you spoke of writing after a break from writing?
Yes, Onisha. Thanks!