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| Bruce Hennigan |
We may often struggle with wanting to be in charge of
our writing careers. Yet, God tells us to not worry—he’s still in
control. Author Bruce
Hennigan knows this firsthand. Enjoy as he shares how God surprised
him with an answer to prayer. ~ Dawn
God
Is Writing His Story!
On dark, rainy weekend afternoons, I often find myself
writing about demons and angels. My character, Jonathan Steel is facing another
demon from the Council of Darkness and, once again, lives are at stake and evil
will soon prevail.
But, on this particular weekend afternoon I found myself in
Orlando, Florida with my good friend and co-author, Mark Sutton. Our main focus
was on our 2001 non-fiction book on depression. For years we had begged B&H
Publishing to update our book but they had shown no interest. Now, our agent
suggested we develop an entirely new book and find a new publisher. What made
our current book work was the format, a 30 day plan and the LifeFilters. Rather
than develop a new approach, we updated to 60% new content and kept the same
format realizing a new publisher wouldn’t touch it!
The next day I attended the 2012 International Christian Retail
Show to appear at the Charisma booth and promote my second book in the Jonathan
Steel Chronicles. As I made my way down the exhibit hallway I noticed a huge
sign outside a meeting room for B&H Publishing. I stopped. Yes, I was going
to walk into that room and tell them we were looking at new publisher! That
would show them! No! I started to walk on and turned around. I should give them
a piece of my mind! Why wouldn’t they want to update our book? No, Bruce, just
walk away.
Rarely in my life, God speaks to me through the Holy Spirit
and He told me to simply walk into the room. I was soon speaking to a young man
in a nice suit asking for a bottle of water when his face paled, his eyes
widened and he stared at my name tag.
“Oh, my gosh, you’re Bruce Hennigan!” He exclaimed.
I was shocked and looked at my own nametag as if to make
sure I really was Bruce Hennigan. “Excuse me?” I mumbled.
“You’re Bruce Hennigan. Co-author of Conquering Depression.”
He continued. “We’ve been looking for you and Mark Sutton for three months!”
My knees were getting weak. “You’re looking for me?”
“Yes. We want you to write an update to your book. And, a
book series.”
I managed to collapse in the chair. “Can we sit down?”
The man introduced himself as the head of sales for B&H
and told a story that was too good to be true. B&H had a new editorial team
and their first day on the job they decided to get us to update our book.
“You won’t believe this, but Mark Sutton lives here in
Orlando and just yesterday, we worked for 8 hours developing a new updated
version of our book.”
The man blinked. “You’re kidding! Same 30-day format? Same
LifeFilter concept?”
“Yes.” I said hoarsely. I was weeping. “This is a God thing,
isn’t it?”
He smiled. “You bet you.”
A stunned Mark Sutton and I met the next day with the new
editor and by the end of that thirty minute meeting, we had a new book on the
docket with B&H.
Fiction or non-fiction, to see God take a book and work in
such a shocking manner serves to remind me that He is still in charge and He is
working around us, inviting us to be part of His Story; His grand design. Our
book, “Hope Again: A 30 Day Plan for Conquering Depression” comes out on
September 15th. Just when I was about to give up, God steps in and reminded me
to never surrender, never give up. Which reminds me. I need to get back to my
fourth book in the Jonathan Steel Chronicles, “The 10th Demon: Children of the
Bloodstone” if I’m going to have it ready by the end of the year! Now, if it
would just start raining . . .
Tweetables:
Author Bruce
Hennigan walked into a room and received an answer to prayer. Click to tweet.
God is still in
charge and He is working around us, inviting us to be part of His Story; His
grand design. Click to tweet.
Just when author
Bruce Hennigan was about to give up, God stepped in and reminded him to never
surrender, never give up. Click to tweet.
Third Book in the
Chronicles of Jonathan Steel
JONATHAN STEEL, A DEMON
HUNTER BY TRADE, MUST ONCE AGAIN FACE A SUPERNATURAL FOE AS A NEW, EVIL CULT
RISES FROM THE DARKNESS AND THREATENS TO ENGULF THE WORLD IN CHAOS.
Jonathan
Steel is a demon hunter by trade, taking out demons with revenge as his
motivator. The demons have taken away people he has loved, including the one
woman who could have revealed his past to him. He has already defeated two
demons, but he knows there are eleven more out there. If he does not go after
them, they will come for him.
Meanwhile,
Vivian Darbonne, Steel’s bitter enemy, embarks on a desperate search for a
mysterious artifact called the Ark of Chaos— just as a new evil cult rises from
the darkness and threatens to engulf the world in chaos. As seats of power are
covertly altered within the government, Steel knows that in order to defeat the
cult, he must first find an ancient chest that holds the secret to defeating
the eleventh demon and, most importantly, power over the Council of Darkness.
Bruce
Hennigan grew up in Northwest Louisiana and became a physician
practicing in the field of radiology. He was a church drama director for 15
years and wrote over 150 plays. He is a certified apologist, or one who defends
the truthfulness of the Christian faith and speaks on this topic on a regular
basis. With Mark Sutton he co-authored “Hope Again: A 30 Day Plan for
Conquering Depression” from B&H Publishing. He is also the author of the
supernatural thriller novels in the “Chronicles of Jonathan Steel”: “The 13th
Demon: Altar of the Spiral Eye”, “The 12th Demon: Mark of the Wolf Dragon”, and
“The 11th Demon: The Ark of Chaos”. He has two grown children and lives in
Shreveport with his wife, Sherry.
To connect with Bruce and learn more, please visit:
Bruce’s Blog: brucehennigan.com
For Jonathan Steel Chronicles: 11thdemon.com
