I came to Christ in my early 20s.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.