Preachers have always been on a crusade to rid the world of sin. But if writers lose sin, what else is there to write about?

THEY ARE ADMONISHING ME everywhere I go.

I hear them in Church on Sunday morning.

Their voices echo in tent revivals on Saturday nights, where we find out hell is hotter than an East Texas August and certainly can’t be wiped away with a funeral home fan.

They blast their venom on radio late at night.

They’re against us.

They’re ganging up on us.

They’re out to get us.

Some are fundamentalist.

Some are mainstream.

Some are in Bible churches by the side of the road.

It doesn’t matter.

Writers beware!

Preachers don’t like us.

They all have the same message.

They all have the same motives.

And we are targets in their verbal crosshairs.

If you’re a writer, if you’re a novelist, if you’re a screenwriter preachers are trying to shut you down.

Burn your books.

Shred your manuscripts.

Exorcise your imagination.

Why?

Preachers are against sin.

Preachers want to stomp out sin.

Preachers want to rid the world of sin.

But if writers lose sin, what else is there to write about?

After all, the Bible is full of it.

David had an affair with his general’s wife.

David had the general killed.

Good plot.

Good story.

Novelists have worked it to death.

Paul is a murderer.

He is a villain’s kind of villain.

He’s feared.

He’s a dangerous man.

He has blood on his hands, and it is Christian blood.

But, on the road to Damascus, out in the middle of nowhere, he is knocked to the ground by a vision of light that shines down around him.

And suddenly he’s a changed man, fighting to save the ones he once condemned to death.

Good plot.

Good story.

Novelists have worked it to death.

What’s a good mystery without a little sin?

You will find sin aplenty in Eulogy in Black and White. Find my mystery about the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles HERE on Amazon.