A princess and a dragon

When I told my friend Pierre I was going to write books when I retired, he told me that every good story needs a princess and a dragon. And it does. The princess and the dragon represent good and evil, protagonist and antagonist, a good guy and a bad guy.

The dragons in my books are not people. They are things. In the historical books, slavery and disease are the predominant dragons.

In the modern books, the dragons are loneliness, fear, addiction, hunger, homelessness. Terrifying dragons, all of them.

There are occasional human villains in my stories, but they are always tangential characters, and I give them no depth. Some of my characters make terrible mistakes and do terrible things, but I hope that the readers understand the desperation of those bad choices.

The books reflect the Christian theology that I was raised with, that redemption is available for all of us. Purchased for us by our Savior, Jesus Christ.

I hope that the message of hope and salvation comes through the stories of ordinary people living their ordinary lives always looking for God to guide their words and actions.