Dear Chevron Ross followers: I want to give you an update on the suicide website that inspired my new novel, The Samaritan's Patient. The website is still live, but adverse publicity has forced its creators to change their domain. They have also made it harder to create an account. But the…

For Henry Smith, the young protagonist of Gary D. Schmidt’s novel, trouble is synonymous with pain. Pain comes from the loss of a loved one, from a desire for revenge, and from the realization that there is more to Henry’s trouble than meets the eye. Henry is an adolescent schoolboy…

Today it’s my privilege to feature Edwina Kiernan, a fellow member of Brave Authors, a Facebook collaboration of Christian fiction novels. Edwina is the Christian author of seven novels, four of which are award-winning. An enthusiast of classic novels and history, Edwina combines her faith, imagination and research in hope-infused…

The Samaritan's Patient will go live on Amazon on January 25. It's the story of a teenage girl caught up in a website of disaster. This novel might never have been written had I not seen a PBS interview with two New York Times writers, Megan Twohey and Gabriel Dance, on…

January 2024 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Contemporary Romance: The Love Penalty by Carolyn Miller -- With her fondness for tattoos and spider jewelry Sylvie Miles is used to being pre-judged and misunderstood. She has friends and connections…

What if you were your own worst enemy? Kristen Seeley explores the darkness of mental illness through her character Beverly Bonnefinche, whose childhood experiences with rejection and ridicule have turned her into a bitter and reclusive adult. Beverly works in a bookstore—rather, she reads all day, annoyed when she has…

Never in my daily Bible readings have I considered taking it apart and putting it back together. In Eric Robinson’s second book about hidden meanings in Scripture, he gently dissects the Bible to show that there is far more on each page than meets the eye. Over Our Heads is…

December 2023 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Contemporary Romance: Bidding on a Second Chance by Emily Conrad -- His bid for a second chance this Christmas might lead to her most disastrous fall yet. Police officer Graham Lockhart’s…

People baffled by America’s health care system have every reason to be. As Ricardo Nuila demonstrates in his eye-opening narrative, the system has so many built-in problems that it is its own worst enemy. American health care has degenerated into a business whose primary purpose is not to treat the…

I had a hard time digesting this book. Granted that it is an expertly written and unflinching look at foster parenting, The Risk of Us is difficult to get into at first. Written from the unnamed foster mother’s stream-of-consciousness viewpoint, it is rife with gutter language that does nothing to…