Author Interview

Meet Tosca Lee

Tosca Lee relentlessly pursues ephemeral ideas as a means of presenting eternal truths to others who find life and faith irresistibly fascinating. Her pursuit of answers has led her to produce two award-winning titles: Demon: A Memoir and Havah. Exploring the Bible is something Tosca Lee encourages her readers to do, and it is her hope that through her writing others will seek truth as well.

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Spine Chiller Thrillers

Look Mom, I’m in Jail

My wrist was cuffed to one end of the L-shaped bench. On the other end, the prisoner’s hands were free. The other prisoner, I should say. We were both behind bars. Behind glass, anyway, an aquarium-style glass tank in a holding area somewhere at O’Hare airport, where I’d been dragged out of the First Class line after assaulting a ticket agent.

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Genre Happenings

Hagerstown Book Signing

Authors work in obscurity, and to most of their readers remain invisible. Readers want to connect with their favorite authors. Authors want to connect with their readers. But at a time when bookstores are going out of business and the publishing world is scrambling to stay profitable, how do we connect to those who still value the printed page? It’s common knowledge that getting a bookstore to host a book signing is difficult if the...

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Multicultural Fiction

The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself

Richard Doster is the editor of byFaith magazine. He’s been published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is winner of the 2006 and 2008 Evangelical Press Association’s Award of Excellence, and was a Christy Award finalist for best first novel. His work concentrates on Southern fiction: exploring the history, religion, family relationships, sense of community and place, and social tensions that characterize his home region.

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Reviewers Corner

This month's featured reviewer:
Michelle Pendergrass

My childhood summers were spent riding my bike to the library waiting not-so-patiently for the next Sweet Valley High book. Not too many years passed before I was checking out the latest Stephen King novel. Jekyll and Hyde reading habits? Some things in life are not choices, but rather gifts, and God has blessed me with the dual-mindedness of being able to see the light and the dark.

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Devotional

New Eyes, New Heart

Driving through the vast expanse of New Mexico, all I saw were the endless stretches of brush and dryness. I was used to the lush greenness of grass and towering trees.

As we entered Ghost Ranch (where I was going to teach a fiction class), the adobe architecture did nothing to impress me. The buildings were low to the ground, squatting at the bottom of the rocky bluffs at their backs. Blah, without
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