My publisher gave me the exciting news that my first novel, Fatal Illusions, will soon be available as an audiobook. Unfortunately, I don’t have any idea of when it will be available, but be sure to watch my Facebook author page for updates. I’ll be sure to post news about the audiobook’s release. Yes, it will be available at Audible.com.
I saw this article this morning, and my eyes widened. If you read The Tenth Plague, my second thriller, you are familiar with my fictional parallel Bible that combines the Bible and the Koran (by the way, Koran is Webster’s first preference for the word). Wow. Somebody just published a book just like that called The Qur’an with References to the Bible. According to the Religion News Service, “The new translation shows more than 3,000 parallels between the two religious texts in a split-page format. The top of each page is the English translation of the Quran, and the bottom shows the analogous biblical verses, from the New Revised Standard Version — which account for 40 percent of the book.” Wow! That’s exactly what I had in mind, and in my novel it was a controversial project, to be sure. Some would see such a project as seeking to create legitimacy for the…