We’ve Got ‘Em–100,000 Comments!

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We have a winner of our once-in-a-lifetime 100,000-comment contest!

As the suspense mounted, “Re-Farmer,” in western Canada, posted No. 99,999–a very sweet number, don’t you think? And just two minutes later, Ina came in, from Scotland, with 100,000. I am elated. So much so, that I’ve decided to give prizes to both.

Winners, you have your choice: an autographed copy of my latest Bell Mountain book, Behold!, or a cool red T-shirt with the motto by yours truly, “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost.” All you have to do is provide me with your current mailing address. You can do that here; I’ll delete it after I copy it on paper.

And tomorrow we’ll launch our annual Christmas Carol Contest. I’ll post the rules tomorrow–we already have the first two entries.

May the Lord bring us all safe, happy, and healthy to Christmas 2023!

Readers Wanted!

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Has anyone read this yet, besides me? (Of course I read my own books! How else am I going to remember things from book to book?) And I have zero customer reviews on amazon.com.

Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out two dozen Tarzan novels, in addition to his numerous other works. Like, how many times could Tarzan discover a lost city? Africa was crawling with ’em! Readers kept reading them, even after Burroughs himself got tired of writing them.

Granted, our marketing isn’t much (you’re looking at a big piece of it just now), and the release of a new Bell Mountain book doesn’t exactly produce a ripple in the news. I did feel I ought to mention it here. But I am not a publicist.

Behold ‘Behold!’ Is Here!

I got my box of author’s copies yesterday, so I guess it’s official–Bell Mountain No. 14, Behold!, is now on sale.

Can our heroes use an ancient weapon to defend themselves, or will it wipe them out along with the enemy? Is there power left over from that vanished world?

Behold! is on sale at the Chalcedon Store (www.chalcedon.edu) and will soon be on sale at amazon.com and elsewhere. A paper shortage held up publication somewhat, but now it’s in print… and the rest is up to you, the readers.

I hope you’ll read this and let me know what you think of it. Let’s switch the lights on in the stadium, shall we?

Coming Soon: ‘Behold!’

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Oh! Just in time for Christmas! Behold!–Book No. 14 in my Bell Mountain series.

I should have a contest. Can you identify the little old lady on the cover? If you’re a real Bell Mountain fan, with strong intuitions, you just might be able to do it. Identify the lady and win a pack of plastic army men. (You can’t win the book because they haven’t printed it yet. But that shouldn’t take too long.)

That leaves No. 15, The Ocean of Time, for next Christmas. And meanwhile I’m working hard on Ozias, Prince in Peril… which will break from the story line and carry us back 2,000 years to King Ozias’ time. I pray we’ll all be still here to enjoy it.

Well, the sun is out this morning, so I should be out, too, scrawling away–25 chapters written so far. Will I finish before cold weather shuts me down?

Not entirely up to me, is it?