The first Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight of 2013 features Jack Hempfling, author of “Before You Go: Forty Days of Preparation for a Short Missions Trip: A Daily Devotional”. Pastor Jack is a lifelong cross cultural missionary who was on his way to help Hurricane Sandy victims in New Jersey when we started communicating for this interview. Pastor Jack is a man with a heart for missions, from his beginning in 1985 when he and his wife were called to the mission field of Denver, Colorado to learn from the leader of “Youth With A Mission”, Peter Warren. He and…
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Our Christmas Edition of the Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight celebrates the inspiring story of Joe Bradford, affectionately called “Papa Joe”, whose book “A Walk Of Love” was the basis for the movie “Unconditional” which has been in wide release this past autumn in theaters across America. My wife and I went to see the movie, and we found it inspirational and heartfelt. After interviewing Papa Joe, I could see why the movie had such a following. He, like his movie, was a force to be reckoned with, through his testimony, his life and his words, all soft spoken and…
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One year ago, before I became a full-time staff editor at Xulon Press, I received a call from someone on the Xulon acquisitions team asking if I would be interested in taking on a freelance project. The project, he explained, would be some combination of ghostwriting, line editing, manuscript development and material compilation. In the Land of the Editor, this basically meant that he had no earthly clue what this author actually needed. Enter Larry Fridley. Born July 26, 1924, in Hazel Green, West Virginia, he was a former sailor in the United States Navy, and one of the most…
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Today’s Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight showcases one of the most interesting and certainly oldest authors that I have had the distinct pleasure to interview, Bruce Bullock. At 85, Bruce is the oldest and probably busiest author we have interviewed, and his latest book, “Language in the Bible: In Search of Accuracy”, explores the history of languages used in biblical times to document the stories of the Bible. Bruce states in his book that it is meant as “an overview of the relationship that language has had with scripture and the relationship that scripture has had upon language.” This is…