Whether it’s fact or fiction, nothing makes a story more appealing to me than the characters. I like to know how other people see the world. How other people see them. What motivates them. What they expect from life, and how they react to its joys and disappointments. Even such…

Jackie Albonetti and Desiree Kessler won ebook copies of The Seven-Day Resurrection in the contest completed on January 3. Patricia Hoffert won a paperback copy of the book. There's still time to pre-order your own copy in advance before the book goes live on January 18. Just CLICK HERE. Thanks to all…

Today marks your last chance to enter the AuthorsXP Book Giveaway and win a copy of The Seven-Day Resurrection. The novel goes on sale January 18. Here’s what some reviewers have already said about it: “With a combination of faith and grace, The Seven-Day Resurrection by Chevron Ross elevates Christian…

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Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s…

What would you do if you woke up one morning and found that your dead mother had come back to life? Len Holder, an insurance adjuster, faces that dilemma in The Seven-Day Resurrection, the new Chevron Ross novel. Within moments, Len discovers that Mom isn’t a ghost. That he’s not…

Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 is bound to think of the hapless Winston Smith while reading Adam Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Orwell, of course, wrote his fantasy in reaction to the rise of Communist Russia. Johnson’s tale is also fiction, but it’s based on what we know about the…

This is my latest installment about books that are the pride of my collection. I occasionally read them again for the pleasure of savoring first-rate writing. When Walter M. Miller, Jr. wrote A Canticle for Leibowitz in 1959, his novel straddled a borderline between science fiction and stark probability. The…

Louise Erdrich follows her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Night Watchman, with another perspective on Native American culture and its ties to the spirit world. Tookie, a bookstore clerk with a prison record, finds herself haunted by Flora, a customer who mysteriously died while reading a book about a nineteenth century…

Being an independent publisher can be very discouraging. You spend months or years writing a book, only to have readers ignore it to death. I made a great many mistakes marketing my first novel.  I was so focused on the content that I didn’t realize how hard it is to…