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

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.

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

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

No life is messier than one in ministry

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.