I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.