by Greg Jarrard | Sep 30, 2022 | Backstory
Thanks to incredible help from an old friend, Frank Frederick, whose “basso profondo” James Earl Jones-sounding voice, The Invitation to the Shining City is now available as a 9.5-hour audio book. It’s taken several months, some edits and revisions,...
by Greg Jarrard | Jun 14, 2021 | Backstory
In our generation, it was President Ronald Reagan who asked Americans to dream of a “Shining City on a Hill.” His ideal place harked back to visions of grandeur in a speech that Puritan leader John Winthrop first delivered on the ship, the Arbella, one of a dozen on...
by Greg Jarrard | Jun 14, 2021 | Backstory
Looking back at the beginning of the book I have written, I am not sure when President Calvin Coolidge makes an entrance, but his intrusion into the story now seems providential. I suppose I did pick the year 1925 out of a hat–it seemed like a good period for a...
by CobaltGraphics | Jun 10, 2021 | Backstory
One of the advantages of writing a fantasy is that anything can happen. It does–more than once–in The Invitation. And since it is a Christian fantasy, bringing people back from the dead seemed entirely appropriate, even the right thing to do. You can read all about it...
by CobaltGraphics | Jun 10, 2021 | Backstory
In 1996, I had the opportunity to be part of a three-man team sponsored by the International Republican Institute to travel to Rostov, Russia, a port city on the Sea of Azov, a part of the Black Sea, to teach democratic campaign workers how we conduct political...
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