Latter-day Cipher AND Mormon Mirage Giveaways
Easy way to get a free copy of my controversial novel about Mormonism: Go to Moody Fiction’s new blog, and make a comment. (You may need to refresh the page to make sure you’re commenting on my book.) They’re giving away ten copies tomorrow, Saturday, January 9. UPDATE: Zondervan is giving away 10 copies of The Mormon Mirage tomorrow too at the Moody Fiction blog! Go sign up!
Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol and Latter-day Cipher: The Masonic Connection
When I began writing Latter-day Cipher (Moody, 2009), one of the themes I wanted to explore was the uneasy relationship that Freemasonry would have with Mormonism in the mind of someone who was a faithful Mormon. Here’s an excerpt from Latter-day Cipher that illustrates that connection: This Masonic temple. . .was wedged up against the city’s mountain to the northeast. Its name was Ballut Abydos or something like that, he recalled. It was no accident that the parking lot was sheltered from view from the street. Being a Mason in Salt Lake City was a statement that even those who’d moved in from other places didn’t always want to make publicly. So you could drive behind this temple and park as securely as at any of the adult video stores that peppered...
Free Copies of The Mormon Mirage and Latter-day Cipher to Bloggers
Though the contest on this site to give away free books has closed, there are still ways for people to get free copies. For instance, visit www.TheChristianPulse.com on June 9, 2009 for a chance to win a free autographed copy of my book Latter-day Cipher. Check out The Great Escape Summer Reading Contest – 22 books, 22 reviews, 22 winners, weekdays during the month of June exclusively at www.TheChristianPulse.com. Here’s a link to a press release: The Great Escape Summer Reading Contest 2009 Press Release And for you bloggers — if you will read one of the books and participate in a blog tour on June 30, I’ll get you in touch with a publicist who will send you a free book right away. Happy...
Ah, Sweet Fame, You are so Fleeting!
What a terrific weekend this was for me! I awakened Saturday morning to the news that my new novel, Latter-day Cipher, had hit the 8,000 ranking on Amazon.com. Wow! For a Christian book from a new novelist, God really did a wonder. In addition, it was #15 on Amazon’s bestseller list of Christian mysteries. (Six of the top slots were The Shack paperback, The Shack ebook, The Shack audiobook, The Shack in Spanish and two other Shacks.) Well, Cipher has lost some of its lofty ratings but remains on the best seller list in its Amazon category. All praise and glory to God.
Review of Baptism for the Dead
Baptism for the Dead by Robert Irvine, Pocket Books, 1990 Reviewed by Orrin Judd www.brothersjudd.com Hard to Find, But Worth It I’ve long been of the opinion that the distinctive feature of the great hard-boiled private eye story is the hero’s vulnerability. He’s physically vulnerable because both the crooks and the cops distrust him. As a result of which, he frequently ends up being beaten and battered. He’s emotionally vulnerable because he’s alone and prey to falling in love with clients or other women he meets in the course of the case, or at least caring too much about the people whose lives he finds himself involved in. As a result of which, he frequently ends up heart broken. Such are the Quixote-like characteristics that have...
Review of Wives and Sisters
Wives and Sisters By Natalie Collins St. Martin’s Paperbacks (March 7, 2006) Review by Jana L. Perskie Allison Jensen, the principal character in “Wives And Sisters,” was raised in a Mormon household by parents who strictly adhered to the precepts of their religion, and to the practices of that extremely patriarchal and close-knit society. Allison, a child with a nimble, curious mind, learned by age six that there were many questions in life that should not be asked – because they would never be answered. When the Priesthood speaks on an issue, or more importantly when they do not speak, it is because there are some things congregants can never understand or be told. Members of the flock are expected to accept, without question, the word of...
