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C.M. Powers

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Born

in Tulsa, The United States

Website

http://authorcmpowers.substack.com

Genre

Christian, Suspense, Thriller

Influences

Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker, Ray Bradbury

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I can’t do an author bio written in the third person. It’s weird. My name is Chris Powers, but I’m writing under my initials (CM) because, much to my surprise, there are many people in the world who go by the name Chris Powers. I’m talking about doctors and lawyers and such. We don’t want people to think they wrote these books, right?

So, here’s the deal. I wrote over 30 books spread across multiple genres, but I never quite felt right about the stories I was telling. They took me to some dark places and had me dipping my toes into too many worldly sandboxes.

Conviction from the Holy Spirit is real, man. God said, “Enough is enough,” and pulled the plug on my old writing. I felt it. I knew it was time to let it all go, so I unpublished all my ...more

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Scatter the Dark: A Christian Supernatural Thriller Novel

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The Unfallen: A Christian Supernatural Thriller of Redemption and Spiritual Warfare (The Unfallen Series (Landon Walker Thrillers) Book 1)

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