I completed my "firstfruits" manuscript unto YahVeh in early 2003. My writing was rather poor back then, but I have begun to put it up on my website so any might read it for free. I don't think I should try to sell that manuscript. It is entitled "The Heart of A King" and is a historically accurate fiction book of the rise and fall of King Solomon. You can find the link near the bottom of www.TorahandSpirit.com and only the Epilogue and the 1st chapter have been posted; please be patient as we bring the rest of the manuscript on line for your reading enjoyment.
The manuscript is rather poor quality writing as I was a much more immature writer in early 2003 than in late 2005. But it is my firstfruits offering and I have been convicted by the Ruach to stop trying to sell it to publishers. So there it is; free for anyone to read.
The manuscript I am attempting to sell now, my 3rd book since summer of 2004, is entitled "Doorways" and is a modern day science-fiction thriller in the vein of Dean Koontz. I am still awaiting a response from 3 literary agencies on the status of the manuscript.
My 4th book, "Secrets" which I am working on now, is at almost 25,000 words and probably will run to 70,000 or 80,000 words. It is a modern day psychological thriller in the vein of John Grisham or Dean Koontz.
Fueled on by my debate with that apostate miller, I hope and pray that my above two manuscripts will sell in sufficient numbers to enable me to write another historical fiction rather than resorting to the modern day thrillers that one must write in order to become rich and attain a place on the NYC bestseller list.
I hope to, Yah willing, write my 5th book entitled "Standing in Sardis" which will be a historically accurate-fiction-based account of the Protestant reformers.
The premise?
Employing a unique literary device, I plan to parallel several time periods from the 15th century, over arching them and creating a tesselation of story lines to show how each of the reformers adversely affected the other and brought to a crash the very work the Ruach was striving to perform.
The main characters?
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Servetus
Yochanan Ben David
Erasmus
The first parallle time period will be Martin Luther and Erasmas. The story line will show how brilliant and awesome Luther first began, but how his exile drove him into lust, as he lived out the adage "if I cannot get it from the wife, I will get it from the barmaid". It will eventually chart the end of his life as he advocated the murder of Jews and he died a drunkard, filled with anti-semitism and a poor wretch, a sinner who will burn in the Lake of Fire forever.
The second parellel time period will deal with Calvin and Servetus. We will see sins Luther comitited that helped to establish the sins Calvin would commit later in the same century. We will see Calvin beginning as the austeer, genteel, innocent young man who wishes to see reform, but who becomes power-hungry in Geneva, bitter in exile, and then a mad man upon his recall as he murders person after person, beginning the blood bath of what is known as the Protestant Inquisition.
Both parallel time periods -- the Luther one which is set at the beginning of the 1500's and the Calvin one which is set toward middle of the 1500's, will be connected by a fictional man named Yohcanan Ben David, a man who continues to keep the Torah through the power of the Holy Spirit, a man who is secretly hiding in the mountains where the Waldesian Christians have been hiding for centuries. Yochanan will confront both Luther and Calvin and herein the theme will be most fully brought to the fore: that a rejection of moral light ultimately brings darkness upon the hardiest of souls, no matter how good the intentions might be of that soul.
Standing in Sardis will ultimately capture the heart of the message to the congreation at Sardis in the book of Revelation -- having a reputation for being alive but, when it comes down to it, being dead.
I hope to have that 5th manuscript ready for publication late next year.
I implore you for your prayers.