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Sample Writing

Click here for sample devotional pieces, like those I wrote for the teen devotional, Unlocked.

Click here to see one of the first poems I ever wrote.

You can also find several gospel tracts by clicking here.

Click here to read my most recent blog posts.

Click here to read some of my previous magazine articles.

Current Book Project:

I am now writing a children’s book series about life in an African village (that is, when I am not delivering mail—my day job.) Books 1, 2 and 3 are finished, with book 4 in the planning stage.

These books are geared for 8–12-year-olds. They are chapter books, 10 chapters long, and about 6000 words each. (Could also be a novella, with three parts, or four, with a total of 18,000 to 24,000 words. Recently entered in a contest as a novella of 15,700 words, when I thought I was finished. It was a semi-finalist! Now I am adding a part four.)

I am looking into illustration options since the topics are so unique to African village life they scream “Picture me!” (In the U.S. we do not see children gathering toothbrush branches, crafting calabash bowls, carving dugout canoes, harvesting palm nuts or making charcoal.)

This current book series working title is: Children of the African Bush. It contains fictional stories about Abu and Fanta, a brother and sister, living in a remote village (no running water or electricity.) Although written as fiction, the activities and adventures all come from real life and real people in remote villages where I lived with my family over the course of our missionary experience of almost three decades in West Africa.

Click here to read about Part One/Book One, “The Black Snake.”

Click here to read reviews from my Advance Reading Team.

Click here if you would like to join this reading team when book four is finished.