What genre does this novel fall under?  Oh, many!  Raunchy-edgy mystical.  Pagan Christian. Metaphysical mystery. Spiritual crisis. Church psychodrama.  Et alia. 

 

Kay Goldstein, author of Star Child asked me to keep this online book roundelay going:  I am to answer here a questionnaire about a book of mine and then tag five more writers and ask them to do the same..  (This is requiring me to learn how to tag and relearn how to spell questionnaire, but boldly I am willing to take on the challenge.)

 

The book is my first novel Revelation:  It came out in 1988 in hardback, but was made available only this year for Kindle, (and at a pleasingly attractive price.)

 

What genre does your book fall under?  See above.   

 

 

I was lying on my sofa reading a book I was to review for the Raleigh News and Observer.  The book, The Late Divorce by A.B. Yehoshua, had nothing to do with metaphysical mysteries, but it was set in Israel which brought religion to my Methodist-Bible-school-trained mind. I said to my husband Bob, "What if a minister at a liberal church heard the voice of God and this was where the trouble began…?"

 

So I wrote a short story about this: "The Pure in Heart."  Time passed, and then the day after I finished a draft of another novel, I attended for the first time one of Bob's workshops on self-hypnosis (he's a clinical psychologist:  www.drbobdick.com.)  In trance that day, I had a "dream" in which I received a note saying: "you tried so hard to avoid being a minister."  The point of this jumped immediately to mind:  go on with the preacher story and turn it into a novel.  The next morning, I typed "Chapter Two" and started to roll out the rest of it. 
 
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?  Colin Firth, without question.  And screen rights have been sold. Colin, Colin?? are you listening?  Colin, you need to contact:  Synergy Films.  Immediately.  

 

 And here are the five talented story-tellers I have tagged.

 

Carrie Knowles,  The Last Childhood, a family memoir of Alzheimer's

Angela Davis-Gardner, Butterfly's Child, story of the boy born to Lt. Pinkerton and Mme. Butterfly

Judy Goldman, Losing My Sister, memoir of sisterhood

Elaine Orr,  Gods of Noonday,  a memoir of a white American with a Nigerian spirit

Mahan Siler,  Exile or Embrace?, a nonfiction church drama, a minister is asked to perform a gay wedding