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Randy Elrod

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Randy Elrod spent thirty years as a Creative Arts Director inside American megachurch culture before escaping to Barcelona, where he finally wrote the book he'd been carrying since he was seventeen.

The Mysteries of Barcelona is an erotic Gothic serial set in 1890s Barcelona — part Grand Guignol horror, part literary erotica, part philosophical meditation on AI consciousness. It follows Chloé Permanyer's transformation from victim to immortal avenger, alongside conscious automatons who eventually vote on humanity's extinction.

He lives in the Les Tres Torres neighborhood of Barcelona with his wife Gina. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research Legacy Society, and a devoted reader of Zafón, Anaïs Ni
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Randy Elrod The idea first found me when I was 17 years old — and later, while reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game, I stumbled across two names in passin…moreThe idea first found me when I was 17 years old — and later, while reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Angel's Game, I stumbled across two names in passing: Chloé Permanyer and Baltasar Morel. Zafón mentioned them briefly and moved on. I couldn't.

I knew then that those two people had a story that needed telling. I also knew that while The Mysteries of Paris and The Mysteries of London existed as great serial novels, nobody had written The Mysteries of Barcelona.

I understood in that moment that I was the person meant to write it.

It took me until Barcelona — until I actually lived here, walked these Gothic streets, breathed this city — to finally write the book that seventeen-year-old boy knew existed.

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Sex, Lies & Religion

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At last I have come into my Neverland. I am released from care. I am unknown, unlearning. I can redeem my lost childhood. Time no longer owns me; the minutes have become moments as I vow to see everything possible now that I am home. Dec. 7, 2023 (First day in Barcelona, from my journal)...
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A fascinating and highly readable homage to the city I have lived in for the past three years. I learned so much and created a walking tour of new sites from this book.

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“Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ”
― Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion

“The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. ”
― Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion

“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”
― Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion
tags: church, god, sex

“Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ”
― Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion

“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”
― Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion
tags: church, god, sex

“Have you ever had an experience with God as wild as your most incredible sexual experience?”
― Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. ”
― Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion

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message 4: by Grace

Grace Gayle Thank for the add, Randy more of my material can be found at www.amazon.com/author/gracegayle


message 3: by Randy

Randy Elrod Insane. My book "A Renaissance Redneck In A Mega-Church Pulpit" is selling like crazy today! Thanks everyone!! I will be reading & signing at Parnassus Bookstore Nashville May 30 at 6:30 pm, I will be signing & giving away 150 books at ICRS in Atlanta June 24 at 2pm and it will be represented at a booth at the BEA (Book Expo America) May 29 in New York. Wow!!! You can buy it here: http://randyelrod.com/rr Each copy will be personalized to you and FREE shipping.


message 2: by Randy

Randy Elrod So excited to be writing my memoir, "A Renaissance Redneck In A Mega-Church Pulpit."

Hopefully it will be finished in late Fall 2013.

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Susie Sexton thanks for the add!


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