Barney is out! Bones is coming!
At last Pope Barnabas is for sale!
Barney is written as a mainstream dramatic novel (think "Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West), but embedded in it is an examination of what good pastoral care should look like, and what the Church should look like if it is to deliver it.
I started writing this in 2015, found an agent to push it in 2017, the agent suffered family trauma and had to drop it, and eventually I had to Indie publish.
It was like being 9 months pregnant for four years!
But it's out now, and I can start thinking about pushing the next one out the door. This is titled "Bones", and is set around an archaeological discovery that MIGHT be Jesus' skeleton. But the evidence is ambiguous. The book is not about the discovery itself, but about how people will interpret whatever evidence their might be so as to reinforce what they already believe. 'Confirmation Bias'. It invites the reader to be more self-critical of his/her own dogma, and be the better for it.
Barney is written as a mainstream dramatic novel (think "Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West), but embedded in it is an examination of what good pastoral care should look like, and what the Church should look like if it is to deliver it.
I started writing this in 2015, found an agent to push it in 2017, the agent suffered family trauma and had to drop it, and eventually I had to Indie publish.
It was like being 9 months pregnant for four years!
But it's out now, and I can start thinking about pushing the next one out the door. This is titled "Bones", and is set around an archaeological discovery that MIGHT be Jesus' skeleton. But the evidence is ambiguous. The book is not about the discovery itself, but about how people will interpret whatever evidence their might be so as to reinforce what they already believe. 'Confirmation Bias'. It invites the reader to be more self-critical of his/her own dogma, and be the better for it.
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