John3:16 Blog Hop

Visit my blog and leave a comment between 7 and 14 May to have a chance of winning a signed copy of book 1 of my trilogy, 'Leviathan with a Fish-hook'.

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God's extraordinary timing

The writer's life can be one of unremitting discouragement at times. As a newish British writer of Christian fiction it can feel like swimming against the tide in a sea of liquid cement. But then sometimes God reminds me how he works very differently from us. A friend of mine has been much on my mind lately. She's been going through a particularly stressful time and I've been concerned, but didn't want to bombard her with e mails. As I went to vacuum the dirt and dog-hairs from my car this afternoon I was thinking about her - and at that point she phoned (we live in different countries.) We exchanged news, of course, but what she rang to tell me was how my latest book, ('The Land of Nimrod'), a copy of which I gave her some months ago in the hope that she would review it, had spoken to her condition and given her support and insight when she had a great need. Like, I imagine, many others I tend to dream in terms of big numbers, great sales, a growing base of readers; but perhaps I am being gently told that what matters is meaningful connection with one reader at a time.

Isaiah 55 v.8,9 

Interview on Word Salt 13 March 2012

Hop over to www.wordsalt.wordpress.com if you have a few minutes and see the interview of me and my books by Lynn Dove on her great blog. Thanks, Lynn! And thanks to the good folk who left a comment.

My first post!

Hello,
I heard today that I'd become a member of the John3:16 network. Brilliant! I hope to meet a lot more members as time goes on and I figure out how to make the most of this blog, not to mention taking a look at other people's. My last book 'The Land of Nimrod' came out in October, completing the Leviathan trilogy. If you care to, you can find out more about it on my website www.slrussell.co.uk. Like most authors I'm always keen to hear feedback from readers. I can learn even from those who hate my work (may they be few!)
Now I'm mulling over what might become my next book, but I think it'll be a while yet just gestating.
I just finished reading a quite extraordinary book called 'Baby, baby' by Mari Howard. It deals boldly and sensitively with some complex issues, but it's also a great page-turning read with sympathetic characters.