My Life of Noah and Lord of the Garden short story compilations have been featured on bookhippo.uk!
Adam and Eve were put in the Garden of Eden not just to tend it, but to exercise God's authority over it. They were the first gardeners, and ate only vegetables (these vegetables were better than any meat we have today, I strongly suspect). Everything was better. But we aren't given many details; Adam was a gardener, but was he also a tree-hugger? It depends. The modern tree-hugger stereotype is of the environmental extremist who chains himself to trees and opposes clear-cutting; he or she might or might not smoke pot, have dreadlocks, and live off the land. The stereotype doesn't always hold true, of course. But what was Adam like? First of all, if we want to see what Adam was like, we don't have many details so we have to look at Jesus. Jesus exercised authority over the elements; Adam could too. Jesus multiplied food and walked on water; I suspect Adam could too. Jesus lived a sinless life, and Adam did too until. . . well, you know the story. But Jesus also cursed a fig tree and it withered. Not exactly tree-hugging behaviour. He also told Zaccheus to come down from the tree, paying no attention to the feelings of the tree itself. However, that was in a world tainted by sin. What were trees like in the Garden? I imagine animals talked because the snake did. What about trees? Were they like the Ents in Lord of the Rings, creaking and swaying as they walked? Did they have a special energy or aura, as the "new age" people claim and, incidentally, I was never able to see? We can only speculate. But trees were God's creation and Adam knew only love before the fall. Therefore, I say he hugged trees. Why not?
So, I've learned that paying for e-book promotions is a hit-and-miss endeavour--there may be exceptions of course, and there are some wonderful groups that get your book out without charging much, like Slashed Reads. I would do those again. I won't name the websites that failed in regards to paid promotions because I'd rather not focus on the negative. The bottom line is, you live and learn. Sometimes you lose money and get little or nothing in return, sometimes you get straight up ripped off in life. Other times you get a great deal. Most of the time you get what you pay for but you try to minimize the rip-off's and the losses while sill trying things and learning from your mistakes.
I've finally published the first volume in the Bible for Aliens series! This series is a humourous re-telling of some Bible stories in the order that they happened, beginning with the Garden of Eden. Here is the link on Amazon.ca: http://www.amazon.ca/Lord-Garden-Other-Stories-Aliens-ebook/dp/B00MMF0AHO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408402950&sr=8-1&keywords=Lord+of+the+Garden
If you don't already have Kindle, I think Amazon will automatically take you to this link, but just in case it doesn't, here is a link to downloading Kindle onto your PC: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311 If you buy it, please leave a Review and send me an e-mail ([email protected]) or post a comment on this website. So, I've been working on these Bible character stories and I've got quite a few, easily enough for a book. One title I've been considering for the compilation is The Bible for Aliens, because it kind of sounds cool and I like aliens; also, the Bible talks about "aliens" in the context of "foreigners." For example, Hebrews 11:13 says that the Old Testament faith heroes "admitted that they were aliens and strangers on the earth." My stories keep intact the story structure, characters, and message of the Bible while playing around with the setting and imagining minor details, bringing the stories into our culture. Anyway, I'm leaning towards publishing a series of stories on Amazon's KDP Select. Unfortunately, my teaching job affords me very little time for this sort of thing so I've kind of stalled a bit, but hopefully I'll get to it soon!
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AuthorAdrian Pelzer is a teacher and writer currently living in Vanderhoof, B.C., Canada with his wife Kristen and four children. Categories |