Moonlighting Novelist

@jared-williams Okay, thank you! An email is on its way! 🙂

@k-a-grey

don’t worry about it! I can post my email. That’s fine!

jwilliams.logos@gmail.com

@jared-williams Well, honestly, I’m not really comfortable with sharing my email here.  Could you give me an address where I could email you? But then again, you might not be comfortable with that either….😅

Or maybe you would be okay with sharing the link, but making it so only people who are signed in can see it? If you’re not okay with that,…[Read more]

Thank you so much for commenting.

@k-a-grey

I can see where you are coming from with Harry Potter, and I have some good friends who feel the same way. Hold strong to those convictions!

I appreciate you being willing to beta read my novel! I know reading a novel is a big ask, so whatever you can get done would be greatly appreciated. I know some…[Read more]

@jared-williams Hello! Soo, I’m not much of a romance reader… or a fantasy reader for that matter (unless The Chronicles of Narnia and Nadine Brandes’ Fawkes count 😅).  Yes, I joined the group Romance Writers just so I could join the conversation (don’t hate on me please).  But anywaayyy…. I’ve been stalking  following this conversation bec…[Read more]

Oh, New Mexico is so beautiful! Are you setting it in the plains or mountains? Both are so gorgeous! That’s where we went on vacation last year.

You could try just Kate’s Journey, I personally find it slightly cliche when a romance title always includes love in the title, but that’s just me…lol…

Um, Loves Long Journey…or even thinking…[Read more]

@jared-williams

If I am understanding your question, yes I think so.

Okay, I’m glad to hear it (it seems pretty obvious to me that gods and demons etc.. are not things the bible is okay with us reading, but many Christians claim Sanderson’s Mistborn and Stormlight are fine, despite the fact that Mistborn is full of gods, and Stormlight literally…[Read more]

@noah-cochran

If I am understanding your question, yes I think so.

Thank you so much for going more in depth into your concepts and beliefs on the subject. It has cleared up some confusion on my part and some pre-conceived assumptions. And thank you so much for being so gracious with your response. You are correct that over the internet tone…[Read more]

@jared-williams

Before I give a brief reply, I’d like to say a couple things.

First, using the phrase ‘taking in magical content is a sin’ is such a broad phrase that it was not wise for me to say it. So my apologies.

Secondly, let me just say, Jared, that I have never seen this argument for why magic is okay before (it’s usually vernacular and…[Read more]

I apologize. That last part came across a lot more strongly than I intended.

I know you aren’t purposefully impugning my moral standing or anything of the sort and that you mean well.

Its just the way you word things…

I applaud you for your position and your conviction, and I do not want to take that away from you. Far from it. Hold…[Read more]

I understand your interpretation and position on the issue, but I disagree with the severity and application of your position. Nor do I believe it is a matter of sin but of conviction. Just as it would be wrong for a baptist to claim that dancing or playing cards is a sin for any Christian to do (David danced in the streets and it is used multiple…[Read more]

in fear of becoming like the pharisees, please consider my book for its main points and not its sub-sub-sub-sub-minor-sub-points.

I understand your point by that comment, but that is not an apt analogy in this context. Pharisees were concerned with following the letter of the law to gain power and glory in the eyes of men. I am concerned with what…[Read more]

the antagonist uses the curses.

the king uses the blessing.  The king is of a race that is practically immortal, they live so long. They are known as a wise and righteous race and were chosen long ago as defenders of the truth. As such, they were gifted the ability to use blessings.

Curses/blessings are a VERY SMALL part of the story…[Read more]

The antagonist.

so to summarize in simplistic fashion, curses derive their power from satan, while blessings derive their power from God…

Who uses the curses?

Who has the power to bless and how do they get it? (does God give that power to them? why?)

it’s not meant to be ambivalent or ambiguous, it’s just that they are not known to the protagonist and thus aren’t delved into. The lore is complicated and would take a long time to explain while at the same time would not have anything to do with the novel I wrote, so to summarize in simplistic fashion, curses derive their power from satan,…[Read more]

@jared-williams

and an intriguing way of separating it.

It is hard to make what I was saying clear in regard to the difference between fantasy and magic/supernatural. Perhaps this short guest blog post I wrote for Joelle (whom you know) will help make my beliefs clearer:…[Read more]

That is an interesting question and an intriguing way of separating it.

Okay. So, essence is more of an ability that the people of the world have. So in my mind it’s not treated like supernatural or magic. It’s far from witchery and it is not seen as breaking the of the rules of nature. However, it actually touches upon racism because each race…[Read more]

@jared-williams

That’s an interesting plot, Jared!

However, I do not read books with protagonist-related supernatural content (biblical reasons). Does your book contain supernatural/magical elements? (I do not consider fantasy abilities magic/supernatural unless they are called magic/supernatural or treated as such)