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Don’t Forget the New Year’s Comment Contest!

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thethroneYes, you could win an autographed copy of this gorgeous book, when it’s published next month. Isn’t that cover just the berries?

All you’ve gotta do is post the last comment of 2016 on this blog. Everyone is eligible, even if you’ve already won a comment contest earlier.

What is not eligible, of course, is any comment that is abusive, blasphemous, profane, a commercial message, or just too asinine for words. Other than that, anything goes.

And don’t forget–I’m on Eastern Standard Time, so if you live in a different time zone, take that into account.

New Year’s Contest: Win ‘The Throne’

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I’m trying to go out with a bang, and my new Bell Mountain book, The Throne, will be coming out sometime very soon–so what do you say to another comment contest?

Whosoever posts the final comment on this blog for 2016, and it doesn’t matter what you comment on, will win an autographed copy of The Throne.

For this contest it doesn’t matter if you’ve won before. Anyone can enter, and any comment is eligible… with the following exceptions. Comments that are abusive to me or to another reader; comments featuring profanity (I don’t care if scientists say dropping the f-bomb proves you’re smart; scientists say a lot of things); commercial pitches un-cleverly disguised as comments; blasphemy; and comments that are simply too inane to bother with–other than any of those, anything goes.

Now, I don’t know and you don’t know when that last comment of 2016 will be posted. I’d rather everybody didn’t wait until 11:59:59 p.m. tomorrow night–but hey, it’s up to you.

Happy New Year, folks!

P.S.–Please remember I’m on Eastern Standard Time; so if you’re in another time zone, take that into account. If you’re in California and it’s 9:01 p.m., I’ll be already one minute into 2017.

‘The Throne’ is Coming!

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Why is this iguana so happy and excited? Because he’s just been told that The Throne will be published right after New Year’s!

Re-unite with all the characters from the first eight Bell Mountain books–except, of course, the ones I’ve killed off. Can King Ryons make it back home to Lintum Forest, and will he still have a kingdom when he gets there? And what’s all this about the Thunder King winding up in Obann City?

I am told readers will be able, very soon, to pre-order this book through The Chalcedon Foundation Store (http://www.chalcedon.edu/store). No provision has been made for iguanas, cats, or dogs.

Blog Milestone–and New Comment Contest

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Less than 200 comments to go for No. 10,000. Hey, that’s a major milestone! Who ever thought this blog would last that long?

Whoever posts Comment No. 10,000 will win an autographed copy of one of my books. If you really want Bell Mountain No. 9, The Throne, as your prize, you can reserve it, it’ll be published soon.

The contest rules are simple. Anything goes, except the following: comments abusive to me or to another reader; anything smacking of blasphemy; comments featuring the f-bomb or other profanity; commercials thinly disguised as comments; or remarks simply too inane to bother with.

Come on, now, folks–this’ll be for 10,000 comments, we really ought to whoop it up.

Coming Soon: ‘The Throne’

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We’re now doing the final edit for The Throne–the text that will actually appear in print. It’s Book No. 9 in the Bell Mountain series, and I hope the gorgeous cover by Kirk DouPonce makes you want to read it.

I had hopes of getting this book in print in time for Christmas, but I’m sorry to say it doesn’t look like that can be done. Oh, well. It’ll make a nice post-Christmas gift.

Meanwhile, it looks like one more chapter, just one, will do it for Book No. 10, The Silver Trumpet. And then I’ll feel like I’ve raised a child and sent him out to seek his fortune in the world: sort of an empty-nest feeling. But the good news is that the story demands another book after this one. When you’re writing history, even the history of an imaginary world, that has a tendency to happen–because history just never stops.

As long as the Lord keeps giving me these stories, I’ll keep writing them.

Comment Contest: Win the Country of Your Choice

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There are fewer than 100 comments to go, for there to be a winner of this current comment contest. Whoever posts Comment No. 9,000 will win–

the country of your choice, for you to be absolute ruler of!

If it turns out that I can’t swing that, well, then, whoever posts No. 9,000 will win an autographed copy of one of my books. If you want Bell Mountain No. 9, The Throne, I’ll send you a copy as soon as it becomes available–hopefully, in time for Christmas.

Anyone can enter, post as many comments as you like, and No. 9,000 wins. All comments are eligible except for the following:

Any comments abusive to me or to another reader, any that employ the f-bomb or other profanity, blasphemy, commercials thinly disguised as comments–really, you’ll never get away with that–or comments simply too inane to bother with. Other than these restrictions, anything goes.

Hey, I don’t know where everybody is this month: but if you’ve always wanted to be dictator or empress or grand panjandrum of whatever country on the globe, here’s your chance.

Sneak Preview: ‘The Throne’

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Okay, I have permission; so here’s the cover blurb for The Throne, Book No. 9 of my Bell Mountain series. Most of the editing is finished, we’re waiting for the cover art by Kirk DouPonce, and I hope we can get it published in time for Christmas. But first, the blurb:

The Thunder King has been destroyed–or has he actually reappeared in Obann’s greatest city, to claim it as his prey?

In city and in forest, the boy king’s loyal servants struggle to preserve his throne. But it will be a long journey home for King Ryons and his army, while ambitious and unfaithful men scheme to take away his kingdom.

Nothing in the city of Obann is what it seems to be. Evil masquerades as good, while good must hide behind a semblance of evil. The king’s chief spy poses as the usurper’s trusted adviser–but will he be able to find the help he needs to mount a successful resistance?

For God has chosen Ryons to be king, and Ryons’ people must find friends in unexpected places.

Join the heroes of Bell Mountain as they fight for Ryons’ kingdom!

So there you have it, and I hope it makes you want to read the book when it comes out. And if you’re interested, but haven’t read any of these books yet, start with No. 1, Bell Mountain.

 

My Cover Blurb for ‘The Throne’

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You don’t want to read any more about politics today, do you? ‘Cause I sure don’t feel like writing about it. Blowing my stack first thing in the morning kind of wears me out.

But I came back from the nursing home (no change, everything with Aunt Joan is as it has been for quite some time) and decided I’d better tackle writing a cover blurb for The Throne–Book No. 9 of the Bell Mountain series–so it can be published in time for Christmas. And as I was writing it, the Lord told me what I needed to know to continue writing The Silver Trumpet. He knew I needed help today.

As much as I would like to post the blurb here as a sneak preview, I think I ought first to get it approved by Susan, my editor, and by the publishers, The Chalcedon Foundation dba Storehouse Press. So, if they say it’s good, and they accept it, and I get their permission to do so, I’ll let you all see it as soon as I can.

Progress on My New Book

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I’ve been kind of knocking myself out this week, working on The Silver Trumpet (No. 10 in the Bell Mountain series). I didn’t really mean to, but that’s what happens when I get on a roll.

Because I rely on God to give me the story He wants me to tell, I must grope my way forward and see what He’ll reveal to me each day. And so the story’s taking shape, but as yet I have no idea how or where it will end. I used to plan out my books from start to finish, every detail thought out in advance. But this way it’s more exciting.

Meanwhile, Book No. 9, The Throne, is still waiting for its cover art. I hope it’ll be published in time for Christmas.

P.S.–We ought to see a winner in the Comment Contest sometime in the next day or two. If you’ve never posted a comment here before, please jump right in! Whoever posts Comment No. 8,000 will win an autographed copy of one of my books.