Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago with a young girl, daughter of Finnish immigr
As a child, while my friends collected marbles, I collected words.
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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.