CHRIST
IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter…
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Black Opal Books has a
sharing group for its authors. Since BOB will publish my novel VETS in 6 to 8 months, I’m in the group.
BOB has up to now published only romance novels, but they are expanding into
other genres, hence authors like me [or I, according to which sounds better to
you.] Many of the most active contributors and tweeters in the group write
paranormal romances.
I am acquainted with some
romance writers, including Merline Lovelace --her real name, but one a romance
writer should choose if it were not her real name. [She was a colonel in the
Air Force before retiring to write romance.] I don’t, however, read romance novels
because I don’t need to; I live a romantic life.
Twitter doesn’t understand
that, though, and since I “follow” the other authors in the BOB group, Twitter
is constantly suggesting non-BOB paranormal romance authors, and romance
writers in general, for me to follow.
“Following” sounds a bit
too much like stalking, although young people use “stalking” as any attempt to
gather information about someone, such as I’m “stalking” Thomas Jefferson if I
Google Monticello.
In many ways, it makes
sense for Twitter to suggest that I follow paranormal romance writers, but not
for the reasons Twitter assumes. I am a Christian, a follower of Jesus, a
communer with God, a mystic experiencer, absorbed in the Holy Spirit, a child
of the world for which God provides and continues to create, a follower of one
who has risen from the dead but is still among us in Spirit. That is surely a
paranormal romance.
So I guess the first
writers of paranormal romances were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In
“following” them I am “stalking” Jesus. I’m sure he’s cool with it.
John
Robert McFarland
The
“place of winter” mentioned in the title line is Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula, where people are Yoopers, a word in the new Merriam-Webster
dictionary, and life is defined by winter even in the summer! [This phrase is
explained in the post for March 20, 2014.]
You
don’t have to bookmark or favorite the CIW URL to return here. Just Google
Christ In Winter and it will show up at the top of the page.
I
have also started an author blog, about writing, in preparation for the
publication, by Black Opal Books, of my novel, VETS, in late 2014 or early 2015. http://johnrobertmcfarland-author.blogspot.com/
I
tweet as yooper1721.
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