Tuesday Book Spotlight: Parallel Universe Saga by Randy C. Dockens

In Book 1, Retrieving the Future, Declan befriends an amazing humanoid robot, Lyle, on one of his parallel Earth trips and brings him home to create his idea of an ultimate AI. That’s when everything unravels!

Suddenly Declan’s coworkers and company leaders want him dead, his girlfriend Rose is in danger, and the only way to survive is to discover what his missions were really about—a secret conspiracy linking corporate greed to some of Scripture’s endtime prophecies. To discover that connection, the AI he created sends him and Rose on a parallel Earth mission together, a mission unsanctioned by the company’s Board.

╰┈➤ Book Details:

Genre: Christian Science Fiction

Sub-genre: Biblical Fiction

Language:English

Pages: 304

Paperback ISBN: 978-1734085068 

╰┈➤ Excerpt:

PREFACE

The theory of parallel earths, or parallel universes, is a science fiction topic that has been around for several years. Some scientists believe such a thing may be truer and more possible than once believed. Each person faces many choices throughout their lives, and decisions made sets one down a course of experiences and events that could be very different from what would have occurred if a different decision had been made. Parallel earths would have each of those choices occurring simultaneously—just never experienced simultaneously. Unless . . . unless one could somehow travel from their earth to this other earth. 

Now consider this for everyone and every decision. This would create an infinite number of earths in an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of you—each having unique and very different possible outcomes from decisions made, decisions that can then impact other decisions and other encounters. So, on and on it goes.

Sound confusing? Yes. Sound intriguing? Yes. Sound like a good environment for plots for science fiction novelists? Yes!

First of all, what is a dimension? It is simply a stage of reality where one higher dimension includes all the reality of the previous dimension but adds another. According to string theory, a scientific framework to try and unify the fundamental forces of nature in our universe, there are 10 dimensions. But then there are five versions of string theory. A version that tries to unite them all, called M-theory, requires 11 dimensions to do that. So, that would be ten, or eleven, stages of reality. What would those be? Well, here they are in their simplest form and description. Again, some may describe them slightly differently. The list below indicates what additional reality is added to the previous dimension:

1st dimension: length.

2nd dimension: width.

3rd dimension: height.

4th dimension: time: this would be our current reality. We live in a 3-D world, but experience linear time (i.e., we age).

5th dimension: time becomes fluid in which one can travel (some call this time travel).

6th dimension: parallel earths exist – the differences between them are the outcomes of the different choices individuals make; one can travel from one to the other at the same time stamp.

7th dimension: parallel earths with different conditions exist (i.e., different laws of nature and different physics) – perhaps silicone life forms instead of carbon life forms, for instance. Or, in this novel, a case where a time dilation field exists.

8th dimension: not only can one travel between parallel worlds with the same conditions, but travel between worlds with different conditions (some call this the multiverse).

9th dimension: not only can one travel the multiverse, but at any time within the multiverse (some call this the super multiverse).

10th dimension: not only can one travel between any and all worlds, but at any time between any world thereby understanding the past, present, and future of all worlds simultaneously.

11th dimension: what could possibly be beyond the 10th dimension since it is so encompassing? Well, it seems that the 10 dimensions originated here.

This could also explain how one could not go back in time and change things but can go forward in time to multivariate experiences because the past is composed of decisions already made and the future is a possibility of various events based upon decisions made. The present is the fulcrum between the two.

As you can see, this gives an author many backdrops for almost anything to happen within their novel. In this book, we stop at the 9th dimension and limit the travel to only what would be considered a matching reality in our world. In the text, I try to simplify these concepts even further.

So, now the question of how does this lead to anything biblical? Well, first we need to understand that science points to truth but is not truth itself. After all, science can change as we test new theories and have better and more specialized equipment to measure and view things not previously possible. So, science keeps evolving and giving us new information which helps to refine what truth looks like but never defines truth itself. It supports truth. Truth has no bias. We can’t say the same thing about science. Also, any technology can be used for good or for bad. You’ll see this is also true utilizing the technology developed in this novel to travel to other parallel earths. I won’t give that away here. But to the question of whether this concept is biblical, perhaps it is. If we look at how one dimension builds upon another, when we get to the 7th dimension, perhaps this is where the spiritual world begins and starts to overlap into ours. If we look at the other natural laws and physics being different from our own to encompass the spiritual realm, it can lead to understanding how things like Sheol, Eden, and angels fit into this paradigm. The 10th dimension then helps us to understand how this can relate to God, as he can see past, present, and future simultaneously. What about those who consider 11 dimensions? Well, it could be that God’s council would represent the tenth and God himself the eleventh. Higher dimensions can enter lower dimensions, but not vice versa. To keep this preface from going too long and belaboring the point, allow me to stop here with how all of this would work. But as you can see, one can make a case for this from a biblical perspective—just not in the same way most scientists without the concept of God view these dimensions. This also lends to helping us see how scientific phenomena and spiritual phenomena don’t have to be considered separately but one helps to explain the other.

So, happy reading! You’ll discover how the complex can lead to action-packed adventures that expand one’s mind but not break it. Also, unfortunately, you’ll find that greed and rebellion can expand even beyond our universe. But . . . on the flip side, so can love.

– Excerpted from Retrieving the Future by Randy C. Dockens, Quill & Quotation Press, 2025. Reprinted with permission.

In Book 2, Resolving the Future, Declan discovers the secret to his parallel Earth visits …. and it’s not good.

This other parallel Earth lies within a time dilation field which severs his and Rose’s connection to their world. Another way to get back must be found. He discovers why his company’s Board sanctions his trips to parallel Earths and this discovery not only puts his life and that of Rose in danger, but basically everyone he has worked with at his company.

Once he and Rose return to their Earth, all has changed. Only his robot friend, Lyle, has remained unchanged. The AI he created and who sent him on his off-world mission is now in control of the company, has his boss and the Board under its sway, has no knowledge of his unsanctioned mission, and now considers Declan enemy number one. Declan now has to convince a company blinded by greed that they’ve created humanity’s executioner— and do that before there’s no future left to fight for.

╰┈➤ Book Details:

Genre: Christian Science Fiction

Sub-genre: Biblical Fiction

Language:English

Pages: 304

Paperback ISBN: ‎ 979-8992197150 

╰┈➤ Excerpt:

Preface

Parallel Earths, or other dimensions, is a topic that has interested scientists and science fiction enthusiasts for years. Its main intrigue is likely that what isn’t occurring on our Earth could be happening on a different Earth and can vary in many ways. This gives writers an opportunity to create a narrative that would normally sound quite wild but with this idea of parallel Earths, or other dimensions, the same narrative can now be made and become believable because it is not on our Earth but on some other Earth where typically unbelievable events occur. It can vary from a character doing, or being, someone different than they currently are, or even an environment in which a character lives that would not occur or even be possible on our Earth. For example, in this current novel, there is a time dilation field that affects the time difference between worlds. While, currently, such scenarios are not possible in our reality, it in no way limits the imagination of writers who desire to use this interesting segment of science to their full advantage to create unrealistic worlds, characters, and environments, but just as equally believable and acceptable to readers.

For an understanding of parallel Earths, or different dimensions, see the Preface of my first book of this series, Retrieving the Future, or some blog posts about dimensions on my website, www.randydockens.com. 

Another area of science that has been around for quite some time, and especially now, is artificial intelligence (AI). The idea of its utilization piques intrigue is some and horror in others. However, as with any technology, it can be used for benefit or for ruin. It plays a key role in this present novel. The other argument around this topic is how much knowledge should be made available to such an instrument. Does one limit available knowledge to guide AI and its findings in a way one can control, or does one give unlimited knowledge to AI to allow it to come up with conclusions that may take all information into account and thereby be, supposedly, less biased than what humans can derive? Some say yes, others say no. Why? It seems human bias may not only lead to biased AI conclusions but biased AI analyses as well. Perhaps the real question is not whether AI will be our savior or our demise, but will human bias lead to our salvation or our destruction? Perhaps that is the better question with which to wrestle. Read away to discover how and where this novel takes this very question.

– Excerpted from Resolving the Future by Randy C. Dockens, Quill & Quotation Press, 2026. Reprinted with permission.

The Parallel Universe Saga (including Retrieving the Future Book 1 & Resolving the Future Book 2) is available at Amazon and the author’s website. 

About the Author

Dr. Randy C. Dockens has a fascination with science and with the Bible, holds Ph.D. degrees in both areas, and is a man not only of faith and science, but also of creativity. He believes that faith and science go hand in hand without being enemies of each other.

After completing his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Auburn University he went on to graduate school at Auburn and completed his first doctorate degree in Pharmaceutics. He began his scientific career as a pharmacokinetic reviewer for the Food and Drug Administration and later joined a leading pharmaceutical company as a pharmacokineticist, which is a scientist who analyzes how the human body affects drugs after they have been administered (i.e, absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted).

Through the years, he has worked on potential medicines within several disease areas, including cardiovascular, fibrosis, and immunoscience to seek and develop new and novel medicines in these therapy areas.

He has also had his attention on the academic study of the Bible. He earned a second doctorate in Biblical Prophecy from Louisiana Baptist University after receiving a master’s degree in Jewish Studies from the Internet Bible Institute under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Congdon.

Randy has recently retired from his pharmaceutical career and is spending even more time on his writing efforts. He has written several books that span dystopian (The Coded Message Trilogy), end-time prophecy (Stele Prophecy Pentalogy), science fiction (Erabon Prophecy Trilogy), uniquely told Bible stories (The Adversary Chronicles), speculative fiction (Cities of Light Series), and a combination of science fiction / speculative fiction (Parallel Universe Saga). All his books, while fun to read, are futuristic, filled with science to give them an authentic feel, have a science fiction feel to them, and allows one to learn some aspect of Biblical truth one may not have thought about before. This is all done in a fast-paced action format that is both entertaining and provides a fun read for his readers.

He has also written some nonfiction books as well. One is to show how all humans are connected from God’s viewpoint by looking at biblical prophecy (Why is a Gentile World Tied to a Jewish Timeline?: The Question Everyone Should Ask). This book shows how all scripture is connected and inclusive of everyone. In addition, he and his editor have written two books about writing. The first is on writing techniques themselves and is entitled Mastering the ABCs of Excellent Writing: Creating Vivid and Colorful Stories that Readers Want to Read. This book not only addresses the techniques of writing, but what makes writing unique to each author. It conveys not only how to better hone one’s craft of writing but also the brand an author wants to portray. This helps an author make their writing unique as well as captivating for his/her audience. The second is a companion book to this one entitled Mastering the ABCs of Excellent Self-Editing: Framing Your Colorful Masterpiece to Keep Readers Engaged in Your Story. This is best used in conjunction with the first one. Yet, self-editing, though intricately connected to writing, is a distinct event. The better the quality of a writer’s draft manuscript when it is delivered to one’s editor, the higher the final quality of the manuscript will be for readers, and that is extremely important.

Dr. Dockens still has creative ideas to share so stay tuned! 

Dr. Dockens’  latest books are Retrieving the Future & Resolving the Future (Books 1 & 2 in the Parallel Universe Saga Series)

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❤Author Interview: Mary Lawlor, Author of 'Fighter Pilot's Daughter' #authorinterview

 

Mary Lawlor is author of a memoir, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War (Bloomsbury 2015) and two books of cultural criticism, Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West (Rutgers UP 2000) and Public Native America (Rutgers UP 2006). She studied at the American University in Paris, the University of Maryland, and New York University. She divides her time between Easton, Pennsylvania and Gaucin, Spain. Her novel, The Translators, is set in 12th century Spain and fictionalizes the experiences of Robert of Ketton, first translator of the Koran into Latin. She hopes to see it out next year. In the meantime, she has started a second novel, The Women’s Hospital, set in 18th century Spain and inspired by the life story of an Irish woman whose family moved to Cádiz, escaping English oppression in their own country.

╰┈➤ You can visit her website at https://www.marylawlor.net/.

Connect with her on social media at:

╰┈➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.lawlor.186/ 

 

 

Thank you so much for this interview, Mary. How did your family feel about having you write a book that might include them? 

My parents were both gone by the time I wrote Fighter Pilot’s Daughter, and one of my older sisters had passed away. I was worried about how my other two sisters and the larger, extended family would feel

about my describing intimate dynamics in the book, like my parents’ fighting or my father’s alcoholism. But my sisters and I talked about these things, and they were supportive. Before publication, I sent them both the finished manuscript — not promising to make changes but to hear their feedback and be influenced or not by it. I know one of them has read the entire book, and she was very moved. Her response has meant the world to me.

What was it like living in military quarters and never having a ‘real’ home that stayed in the same place? Do you feel it shaped who you are today?

In some ways, it wasn’t so much of an issue, since from the time we were very young, my sisters and I were moving every two years or so. It was all we knew and all we expected. The other kids on the Army posts where we were stationed had the same experience.

But a couple of things complicated that normality. Whenever they could, my parents enrolled us in Catholic schools, off post, and we would find ourselves surrounded by kids who had known each other since kindergarten. Generally, they looked at us like we were irrelevant — at least at the beginning. Eventually we’d make friends and be invited to their homes, where we’d see the continuity and stability of their lives, in contrast to our own.

And there were the visits to see our New Jersey cousins, who lived in a lovely house in a country town where they’d been all their lives. They’d gone to the same school, had the same friends, and so forth. It was an ideal domestic scene, and I loved being there. I was envious of their world but couldn’t imagine it for myself. It was too far out of reach.

When we were young, the moves were exciting. My parents would talk about the places we were going — California! Germany! — and my sisters and I would start imaging what they would be like. We’d read about and picture ourselves in the new situation. As we got older and had close friends and boyfriends, the moves were more difficult. It was sad and painful to have to leave, and we wished very much we could stay in the same place. Then, again, the new place would be exciting and different. We’d make new friends, and the cycle would continue like that.

Moving so much and not having a home has shaped me a great deal. After leaving my parents for college, I kept moving and am still am not quite rooted, although I’m married and have a nice house in Easton, Pennsylvania. But every three months my husband and I shift off to Spain, where we have a cabin in the mountains of Andalucía. I love being in Spain and would move here if I could. We have friends and more of a history here than we do in Easton. We don’t, however, have residency in Spain, so after three months, we come back to Easton. The year is divided up like this, and it feels perfectly familiar to me.

In one of your interviews you said, “Memories of my girlhood and forgotten fears of nuclear apocalypse were running through my brain day and night.” I can’t imagine the fear. Can you elaborate on this and tell us how you coped?

Living on military posts, I think we had more of a sense of the potential for nuclear war than other children in America. Because our fathers’ jobs were to get the defense apparatus ready for that eventuality, we were made constantly aware of it. Civil-defense shelters were everywhere, and we practiced the “Duck and Cover” moves at school, huddling under our desks and hoping that would do the trick! On the posts in Heidelberg and Stuttgart, Germany, there was a lot of talk about the Fulda Gap, a point on the border between West and East Germany where it was predicted the Soviet army would flood through to do battle with the Germans and the rest of Europe. These images and warnings kept the possibility of nuclear apocalypse in our minds almost all the time.

Apart from that, our parents were practicing Catholics, and the story of St. John’s Apocalypse often came up in the post chaplain’s sermons. Apocalypse offered a ready analogue to the talk of nuclear annihilation, and the chaplain would build on it, trying to imbue in us a sense of how close the end of world might be. The terrifying judgement of the living and the dead and the assignment of eternal damnation or happiness was always upon us.

These twin discourses of apocalypse were in the air, in our dreams and produced what I’d call a habit of fear, a trained response to seeing whatever troubling situation emerges as a sign of the end of days. Or the end of something. Like now, so many people my age are seeing the current political situation in the US as signs of the end of democracy and, perhaps, of America. But on a more personal level, the habit of fear has stayed with me and been a real handicap to my self-development and to my ability to genuinely live with confidence. Fortunately, it’s an obvious enough problem that I’ve known about it for a long time and have spent a lot of time (and money!) trying to come to terms with and manage it in therapeutical contexts.

Can you tell us the name of some of the places you have traveled to when your father was an aviator and which were your favorite?

We lived in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, infamous as a cancer hot-spot for people who lived there in the 50s. Then there was Fort Rucker, in Dothan Alabama, where my father taught pilots how to fly helicopters and I got to ride in a Bell helicopter once — like being up in the air inside a giant eyeball. We rented a farm way out in the country and had a horse, cows, chickens, guinea hens to look after. That was hugely fun, although rural Alabama was a very unfamiliar place and the people there weren’t easy for us — especially for my mother — to understand. I go into Franny’s way of responding to southern culture in the book, but suffice it to say here that she was quite unhappy. Later we moved to Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, where we lived off post in a swampy development called Forestdale. There was a creek behind the house, but you had to watch out for water moccasins. I started my writing career there with a little newspaper a friend and I created, The Forestdale Gazette, in which we reported news of the neighborhood, using carbon paper for copies.

Later we moved to Fort Ord, in Monterey, California. This was really my favorite and my sisters’ too. We lived on post, but our parents enrolled us in the beautiful Carmel Mission School in Carmel, situated in an old monastery and arranged like a cloister walk around a gorgeous garden. We made friends there and loved the school, although some of the nuns were stricter than others. We stayed at Fort Ord long enough for my older sisters and me to start high school in Monterey. Then my father had orders to go to Stuttgart, so we had to say goodbye to people who had become important to us.

We crossed the Atlantic on the SS United States, an adventure in itself, which I also recount in the book. Germany opened up a whole new world. The enormous differences of language, styles of dress and manners, of what kids were allowed to do that they weren’t in the US and vice-versa, not to speak of the economic differences between them and us in those days — all these surprises were overwhelming. But it was fascinating. I scrambled to learn the German language and understand the few German friends I made. For the first couple of years we were in Stuttgart, a beautiful industrial city, and then we moved to Heidelberg, a handsome and historic university town. In both places we lived in the very closed environment of the post and didn’t get to know German people or their language or society very well. Among the military kids, my sisters and I came of age and got a taste of American teenage life that we’d never had in the States — drinking parties in the local Gasthauses that had no drinking age, and moonlit adventures in old Nazi sites. It was a strange and exotic experience which made me into a very different person than I’d been before.

Having lived through the Cold War, you know the fear of Russians invading or setting off a nuclear weapon was very real. Can you help us feel what that was like?

We were shown films in school with images of an enormous blast, followed by empty streets with trash blowing in the nuclear wind. The announcer would insist again and again that if we heard the atomic warning siren, we were to “duck and cover,” wherever we were. And we were told there might be no warning, that a blast as bright as the sun would suddenly happen, anywhere, anytime. Duck and cover movies warnings were played in schools and in the base movie theaters. Readiness warnings were issued at sports events and even in church. Repeatedly, we were told to be always alert for the warnings or the sun-bright blast itself. The message was meant to live in our psyches and be part of our thinking, our identity. We were people under threat. Nuclear holocaust was in my dreams and fueled a steady sense of fear and trepidation. From one moment to the next, you had to be ready for the world to fall apart under your feet. It was a tremendously unsettling discourse and kept all of us, I think, on edge and fearful.

I see this now in hindsight as a terrible experience for a child. Whatever the actual threat level at any given moment, ducking and covering probably wouldn’t have helped much. It only left us with a habit of fear. It probably made some of us more philosophical or religiously-minded than we might otherwise have been, given the end-of-the-world scenario we lived with all the time; but I think the more general effect was a fear, bordering on neurosis, of what could happen from one moment to the next. No wonder the late counter-culture that followed saw such an explosion of liberation and care-lessness, to counteract the intense, imposed caution of our childhood years.

In an earlier interview, you said you just wanted your mother and father to be remembered. Can you tell us what you would like people to know about them?

I think Jack and Franny were in some ways typical of their generation. Born in the 20s, they lived through the depression and came of age in the second World War. They weren’t subtle but saw things in black and white terms; and were very clear with their comments about everything from politics to homemaking. In many ways, I think they thought of themselves as opposite to the communists who they considered the enemy: communists were subtle, cagey, didn’t put their cards on the table. You couldn’t trust people like that, since what you saw wasn’t necessarily what you got.

Jack and Franny were both larger than life for me, but others outside the family responded to them as if they too saw them as striking characters. They were outspoken and definitive in their opinions. They were both loud and ready for an argument. I never heard them identify themselves as such, but they were politically independent and would size up the candidates carefully, then decide which was the better man (it was always, of course, a man). And once decided, that was it. There was little room for dialogic discussion of things, much less changing their minds.

As parents, they could be very difficult. They were strict, demanding, and kept a close eye on my sisters and I. They weren’t alone: child-rearing was like that in those days. Kids got spanked, and nobody thought it was wrong. My parents set the rules and the tone for our household, and we followed. There was no consulting us as to what we thought or hoped for or worried about.

But they were affectionate, and we knew they loved us. They hugged us a lot and always made a big deal of our birthdays. Christmas was a huge celebration with lots of good presents. And Jack and Franny were fun. Our moves across the country were always treated like adventures. The hotels, the pancake breakfasts at roadside restaurants, the sites along the routes of America — Carlsbad Caverns, Route 66, the Rocky Mountains — were part of a great expedition we were making. They inspired us with their excitement.

At a certain level, I suppose it’s simple vanity: I want them to be remembered because they meant so much to me. But they both contributed something to the world they came of age in, and they were characters of that time. I think that’s worth remembering.

What would you like future readers of your book to know?

I’d like future readers to know what life was like in the middle-to-late years of the twentieth century, particularly for the children of military families, a generally little understood component of American society. The focus of attention to US forces fighting overseas and preparing for war at home is usually on the service members themselves — all their adventures and sacrifices. I’d like readers to know more about the people who came along with them, followed in their wake — the spouses and children of the warriors. They may well not share the warrior’s priorities or even their ideology, but the children in particular are called on to be part of the picture anyway, like camp followers of all ages everywhere. I’d like people to know more about what life was like for us in our time, but I also hope readers will see how military children still experience the difficulties of moving all the time and the instability of life in warrior society. It’s an age-old portrait and one that’s little understood.

❤Author Interview: Luke Uebelher, Author of 'The Faithful, The Fearful & The Foolish' #authorinterview

 

In 2012, Luke Uebelher began serving and supporting the needs of sex-trafficking and domestic violence survivors by working in partnership with ministries that are led by trafficking and abuse survivors. Under the guidance and leadership of his pastors, his ministry expanded to also serving and supporting the needs of homeless Military Veterans, and ministries in the Philippines. Luke and his wife Maggie were married in 2018 and have a home in the Philippines. Luke travels between the United States and the Philippines for business and ministry services. 

Luke’s latest book is The Faithful, The Fearful & The Foolish: Living for God in Troubled Times.

Connect with him on social media at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Luke-UebelherDiamond-Fire-Transport-Missions-100077395525353/ 

 

For readers who don’t know you yet, who is Luke Uebelher?

Luke Uebelher is a follower of Jesus Christ, having dedicated his life to the Lord while serving in the U.S. Marines during his tour of duty in the Persian Gulf War, Desert Storm. Following his service in the Marine Corps, Luke worked in various professions to include public safety, construction and sales before establishing his own business in the trucking industry as an independent contractor.

In 2012, Luke responded to God’s Call and Kingdom Purposes to begin serving the needs of sex-trafficking and domestic violence survivors by working with ministries led by trafficking and abuse survivors. His work in the Lord expanded to serving the needs of homeless Military Veterans in 2015 through 2017, working in partnership with a ministry in Southern California.

In 2018, Luke’s work for God’s Kingdom expanded internationally when he married his Wife, Maggie, and he travels between the United States and the Philippines for business and ministry. He and Maggie have devoted themselves to supporting and serving the needs of Pastors and Ministry Leaders in the Philippines, in addition to the ministries that Luke serves and supports in the United States.

In 2023, Luke and his book, “The Faithful, The Fearful & The Foolish: Living for God in Troubled Times” were featured and interviewed at the Hong Kong Book Conference with Readers Magnet.” Following this, Luke’s work for God’s Kingdom expanded into Hong Kong and Macau, China, serving in partnership with Philippine Pastors, to serve the needs of Filipinos who live and work in Hong Kong and Macau, China, teaching and empowering them in financial stewardship, managing a long distance marriage, discipleship and setting boundaries to protect themselves from abuse at the hands of their foreign employers. All the work that Luke and Maggie do for God’s Kingdom is funded by his business in the trucking industry.

Can you tell us a little about your book, The Faithful, The Fearful & The Foolish: Living for God in Troubled Times?

“The Faithful, the Fearful & The Foolish: Living for God in Troubled Times” was published in December 2022 (NCC Publishing, Inc), and is a result of a message of the Holy Spirit to God’s people to overcome the fear of man, learn to be effective in the Business of God, and prepare ourselves to Rule and Reign with Christ. The Holy Spirit began ministering to Luke about this message in 2019, with the conclusion of the writing of the book in the late summer of 2022, and submitting it for publication.

The focus of the message of the book is taken from the Parable of the Talents in Luke 19:12–27, with Scripture from both the Old and New Testaments to guide and empower each reader to overcome the fear of man, learn to effectively do the Business of God, and prepare themselves to Rule and Reign with Christ in order to advance God’s Kingdom in a world that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ, and empower others to do the same. The message of the book does not “tickle people’s ears,” but rather teaches and guides each reader to cultivate a genuine hunger and thirst for Righteousness, grow in their Faith and submission to the Authority of God’s Word, and to esteem the Kingdom of God over our culture of selfishness that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ.

Who will benefit from the book? And, how is this book different from other books?

Everyone who has an interest in overcoming fear, particularly the fear of man, to pursue God’s Kingdom Purposes for their lives will find this book to be very helpful. Additionally, the message of the book will stir readers to a hunger and thirst for Righteousness, arise out of complacency and cowardice, and grow in the confidence of Christ. A significant aspect of the message of the book is in guiding readers to learn the importance of bringing our lives into agreement and submission to God’s Word by Faith through Jesus Christ, so that we may walk in the favor and authority of God, to restrain and overcome the works of darkness, and live a life that Honors and Glorifies God, and empowers others to do the same. Each chapter concludes with questions that call each reader to self reflection, personal growth, and a call to action to be Faithful and Fruitful in the Business of God. This book is an excellent resource to help readers grow in Discipleship, Christian Leadership, Spiritual Transformation, and developing mental and emotional stability in these troubled times.

What's next for you?

While Luke did not previously see himself as an author, nor did he aspire to be an author, he did recognize the call of God to write the book, “The Faithful, The Fearful & The Foolish: Living for God in Troubled Times,” and the importance of living and teaching the message of the book to empower and disciple others to become effective in the Business of God. Luke understands this is a Calling from God, not a career, and it requires that he continually grows in his own effectiveness for God’s Kingdom so he may inspire, empower, and lead others in Godliness. It is Luke’s desire to see God Glorified in the lives of others, as he helps them abound in their Faith. Luke is a small business owner, who’s passion is to advance God’s Kingdom by empowering others to grow in the Greatness of God, as he works toward his goal of being with his wife, Maggie, full-time and pursuing God’s Kingdom Purposes together.

❤Author Interview: Lee Mavin, Author of 'The Wars Between' #authorinterview

 

Lee J Mavin is the author of 11 books. He is also a teacher and father. He has a Masters in Creative Writing and am solely focused on writing fiction (fantasy and horror) and poetry. He is now in collaboration the illustrator Karolina Piotrowski, a Polish artist who has brought many stories to life. He has worked and studied in China and Japan and studied with Dr Xiaohuan Zhao (a master of Chinese poetry) to complete his book Li Bai’s Shadow, at the University of Sydney. He has two children who are both avid readers, so he is always in the loop with trends in children’s fiction. He is married and lives in Sydney, where he teaches English.

His latest book is the YA fantasy, The Wars Between.

Visit his website at leejmavin.com. 

Connect with him on social media at:

╰┈➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lee.mavin.925/ 

╰┈➤ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mavin798 

╰┈➤ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5103759.Lee_J_Mavin

╰┈➤ TikTok ➜ https://www.tiktok.com/@leemavin4  

 

I am so excited about your new YA fantasy, The Wars Between. Why did you choose to write a book for this genre in particular?

Because I love reading YA fantasy and have been doing so since I was a teenager.

Can you give us a book blurb so others will know what it’s about?

It is said that there was once a time of peace. A time when the sounds of swords clashing and shrieking cries of agony were not so familiar. This time was long ago and has passed out of the dreams of most. The rulers of the world are determined to wield their power with force to maintain their strength and wave their flags with pride. Asalandia was a country that took pride in the history of war. Thousands of history books were written, depicting heroes, winning battles against the evil Kastanarians, who wanted to invade, steal, and change their way of life. As Asalandia grew, diversity was inevitable, and some grew weary of the constant invasions, wars and flag waving. However, the wars went on and warriors kept battling. The smell of burning arrows and the sounds of sinking ships became oh so familiar. Kastanarian catapults launched huge boulders into Asalandian walls, crushing everything in its way. Asalandian ships sailed across the seas to Kastanaria to seek revenge and launched their brutal attacks. Blood poured and hearts stopped, and this became a way of life and death between the two nations. Many wondered if it would ever stop but none of them did anything about it and just thought it was all a normal part of life. Nobody questioned anything, they just let it happen, repeatedly. They did this for years and years until someone finally did something. Someone, from the most unlikely of places, did the most uncommon thing to start change. That someone was a young man by the name of Outis Everrett.

Can you tell us a little about the main characters?

Outis Everrett is an unimportant little known poet in the kingdom of Asalandia. He enters the kings first poetry competition and unexpectedly wins. The king sends him across the ocean to Kastanair to read his poem to the new President Penelope Chinwa. However, they get sidetracked and meet an unusual young Kastanarian woman, Gwenia Xiachung. She is on a mission to stop all meat production on the island of Syanthia. She is strong-willed but strangely optimistic girl who takes a liking to Outis immediately. 

Where and when does this book take place?

The book takes place on two countries that have been at war with each other for thousands of years. All the characters play a part in bringing about change to the world.

Does your book carry a message?

Yes, that we really don’t have any enemies, our enemies are just made up but people who want to manipulate you and benefit from it. 

What's your next project?

The Angelic Fallen takes place in the same world as The Wars Between, only hundreds of years later. It is about hybrid angels who reject their destinies. 

Where can we pick up copies of The Wars Between?

 It will be available on all online stores. Till then it will be on my website leejmavin.com.

Is there anything you'd like to tell your readers and fans?

The Wars Between is my most ambitious project yet. It was a joy to write so I am sure you will enjoy it.