I've always loved to write. In grade school I wrote stories and sold them to my dad for a quarter. In High School--1969-70--I won first place in the State of Florida for the VFW's annual essay contest  titled "The Dangers of Communism to Our American Way of Life". But it wasn't until I turned fifty that I began to seriously study and hone my craft as a novelist. Two months after I turned 69, my WWII historical Christian fiction novel, "Miracle Across the Sound", which tells the story of how the Danes saved virtually all of thier Jewish countrymen whie under German occupation in 1943, was published by Little Loni Publishers in thieir new Messianic Imprint, Betrothed.    In the llate spring or early summer of this year--2022--Contenidng  For the Faith, a non-fiction compilation of ten of my articles which can be found at vineyardjc.com will also be published.