Christian Fiction?

 Why are my books labeled 'Christian Fiction'? It's very simple. When I write I don't dictate what is happening so much as my subconscious just lets things fall out of it onto the page. Apparently, my characters have a basic belief in a Christian God and pray. It just happens as I write and I don't edit those bits out.  

I know this is highly offensive and radical in this day and age but I'm the author and if you don't like it, don't read my books. These books are not preachy but they abide by Christian principles and so they get that label. Being Christian is not a main theme - that generally tends to be family relationships. 

I have a lot of fun when I write and I like to indulge my sense of humor. Books that make me laugh are my favorite. I hope you enjoy them too. 

Still Here

Nope, I haven't died yet. I know you were all wondering. It's like this; my father died several years ago and he was my biggest writing cheerleader. It's been hard to write anything since then. Everything stalled out, books, blog, you name it. But I've moved my books over from Smashwords to Draft2Digital so that's step one. 

I'm posting here so that's step two. 

Next, I will finish my third book, The Book Between Us. It's been nearly finished for a very long time. I just haven't had the heart to finish it and publish it. It's a light-hearted tongue in cheek book and feeling sad every time I write hasn't been the correct mood to polish this particular book off. 

But time passes, wounds heal and sunshine comes back to my soul. 

Book Trama

 It seems like I haven't posted a hypocritical book rant lately. Since I had surgery and I can't do much yet and I'm bored out of my mind I think it's about time I did.

Know what I'm sick of? Traumatizing books. Seriously. Don't you think there's enough trauma in life already? Why do we have to read about it too? There are ways of having conflict and meaning in a book without requiring the reader to have therapy for the next ten years. 

I read a lovely book the other day and read the reviews for it. So many people complaining about how it wasn't detailed enough with the tragic factors in it. Really? Is this what we've come to? 

What's so wrong about reading something that actually makes us feel good when we're done? Why are positive feelings considered 'trite' and negative feelings considered 'real'? 

Why do people feel the need to justify the fact that they liked something uplifting, constructive and good?

We've got a weird kind of prejudice in this world where optimistic things are, at best, dealt with in a patronizing tone and at worst vilified as unreal and damaging. 

This kind of idea has crept into the way we deal with others too. What happened to giving others the benefit of the doubt? What happened to assuming others are not being deliberately malicious? What happened to extending grace to the imperfections of others and forgiving that lack of perfection? 

Maybe it's time to take a step back and evaluate our own
lives, our own behavior our own humanity and make some changes that we actually have some control over - ourselves.