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

No life is messier than one in ministry

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.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.