This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Derailed
Worthy Publishing (October 8, 2013)
by
Dave and Neta Jackson
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
As a husband/wife writing team, we are enthusiastic about books, kids,
walking with God, gospel music, and each other! Together we are the
authors or coauthors of over 120 books. (You can see our Publication
Record by clicking HERE.) In addition to writing several books about
Christian community, we have been privileged to coauthor numerous books
with expert resource people on a variety of topics from racial
reconciliation to medical ethics to ministry to kids in gangs.
But over the years the we have especially enjoyed writing for children
and young people! This includes our award-winning TRAILBLAZER series,
historical fiction about great Christian heroes and heroines for young
people ages 8-12, and the four-volume HERO TALES: A Family Treasury of
True Stories from the Lives of Great Christians, and the companion book,
Heroes in Black History.
Somewhere along the way, our own children grew up! Son Julian is
Director of Experience Design for the Alder Planetarium in Chicago where
he “provides the experience of exploring space” for visitors. He has
two sons, Liam Isaac and Elijah David. Daughter Rachel graduated from
Eastern Mennonite University and after working in the field of
rape-crisis prevention went on to earn a Masters Degree in counseling
from the University of Illinois. She is now a counselor at “Uni High
School” in Champaign, Illinois. She is the loving mother of Havah Noelle
(our first grandchild!) and Noah Zion, our youngest grandchild. The
Jackson family also includes a Cambodian foster daughter, Samen Sang,
who has four children.
We live in Evanston, Illinois, where for twenty-seven years we were part
of Reba Place Church, a Christian church community. We are now members
of a multi-racial congregation in the Chicago area.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Forced to give up his hard-earned retirement, Harry Bentley goes back to
work as a detective. Receiving a bizarre undercover assignment that
sends him across the country by train. Things suddenly go awry when it
appears one of his new neighbors may be part of a smuggling ring and
suspicion rises about his own son’s involvement in a major drug cartel.
The second in the Windy City Neighbors series, Derailed is a
contemporary, and often humorous, tale in an urban setting, featuring
ordinary people wrestling with the spiritual and practical issues of
real life. Intersecting with Grounded (book one), the Jacksons employ
their innovative storytelling technique of “parallel novels.” Though
each book follows its own drama and story arc, the characters’ lives
become intertwined and affect one another. Derailed transports you to
Beecham Street—a typical, isolated American neighborhood . . . until
hope moves in.
If you would like to read the first chapter of
Derailed, go
HERE.
