Archive for February, 2008
I Believe in Love
I’ve spent the bulk of this month blogging about love. Interracial romantic love, for the most part. Hence the picture here.But this month, I’ve been challenged to see real love. You know, the unconditional type. And I’ve been challenged to love differently. Especially my three little boys. Boys that will one day cozy up to [...]
Cowboy in Love
A Christian fiction book series that is near to my heart is Sigmund Brouwer’s Samuel Keaton Ghost Rider collection. It’s a four-book series following our cowboy hero, Samuel, through the trials and tribulations of finding love in the old West.
Okay. Sounds pretty tame. But it was Brouwer’s series and his treatment of both romantic love [...]
What About The Children?
Recently, I stumbled upon this old article by Enuma Okoro, a black Christian woman in a serious relationship with a white Christian man. The piece was posted back in 2006 (but it could have been 1956). Here’s how she starts it.
“You two would have beautiful children!”
“What did his parents say?”
“Do you guys think [...]
Interview with Author Carole McDonnell: Part 2
How did you approach the issue of race in the book? Do you think presenting race is easier in the fantasy/spec fiction genre?
CM: In the book, the three races live in harmony. There is no political correctness so they can stereotype each other and say snide things about each other. It’s part of the human [...]
Interview with Author Carole McDonnell: Part 1
And now for the last author interview of the month. Carole McDonnell is an author and poet. Over the next two days we will explore her novel, Wind Follower.
Tell me about Wind Follower. What’s it about. And why in the world did you write it?
CM: I have always believed that there is a certain tao [...]
My Brown-eyed Country Boy
With eyes like sweet caramel and a thick head of blond hair curling playfully to the side, just one look from that broad-shouldered boy would send me places I knew a young black woman in the Blacklands of North Carolina shouldn’t go. He wasn’t the first white boy that I’d turned a furtively affectionate eye [...]
Much More Than a Civil Union
This love story was emailed to me from Jennifer Hudson Taylor of F.A.I.T.H blog.
The main interracial love story in my family that sticks out in my mind is a historical one. My great great grandfather defied everyone in his family and social protocol to marry my great great grandmother from the Cherokee at a time [...]
Interview with Claudia Mair Burney: Part 2
Do you feel your audience will receive the book well?
It won’t be out until April. Advanced readers seem to enjoy it, and it got a great Publishers Weekly review. It’s not a book that won’t challenge Christians however, and you know, some of us don’t want to make things harder on ourselves than they already are. [...]
Interview with Author Claudia Mair Burney (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a two-part interview with Claudia Mair Burney.
Tell me about Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White. What’s it about. And why in the world did you write it?
Zora and Nicky is a love story that goes beyond your standard boy meets girl fare. Certainly it’s a classic romance [...]
Love Came Knocking
This story was emailed to me not to long ago. I think you’ll enjoy it. It has been edited, but only slightly.
Thanks, L.D., for sharing.
“My cousin, Toni, was married once before to a white man who beat her. Several times she had to call the police for help. The last time, the officer who came was a warm, wonderful black man who took the [...]
Interview with Michelle Stimpson (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of a two-part series with Michelle Stimpson, author of Boaz Brown.
Do you feel your audience received the book well? Explain.
I do think that my audience has received the book well. Boaz Brown causes people to have conversations that they might not otherwise be able to have. The whole idea of having separate selves (“black” selves, “Christian” selves, “corporate” selves) is an issue that I think [...]
Interview with Author Michelle Stimpson
This is Part 1 of a two-part interview with Michelle Stimpson, author of Boaz Brown.
So, Michelle, tell me about your book Boaz Brown. What’s it about? And why in the world did you write it?
Boaz Brown is the story of a successful African-American Christian woman (LaShondra Smith) who wants a Boaz, like the book of Ruth in the Bible. But when God sends the “right” man, he’s the “wrong” color. So [...]
Love, By The Numbers
Yes, I like words but I really like numbers. You could say I love numbers. I even have my favorite mathmatical equation. Bernoulli equation for incompressible fluids. It just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
Sometimes I get lost in looking at statistics and trends. Like this morning when I was supposed to be writing this post but instead I got lost [...]
Old School Love
Back in the day, they knew how to sing about love. Oh yeah. Love, old school style. If you’ve spent anytime around the Oldies, you know some of the titles. And I’ll bet you know the words too.
Stop! in the Name of Love. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg. I Heard it Through the Grapevine. Someday We’ll be Together
and my personal favorite … I Wish it Would Rain.
So this month, in celebration of romantic love and black history month, I’ll be exploring
interracial romantic love in Christian fiction. I’ll be interviewing a few Christian authors about their novels that try to [...]
