Why "with Warmth & Whimsy"?

What does a guy like me plan to do with a blog he’s named after his authorial tagline—Writing Christian fiction with warmth & whimsy? What is his purpose? What does he hope to accomplish? Is he jumping on the blog bandwagon just to prove he can, or is there more to it than that?

Let’s start with the blog title. Unless I’ve been deluding myself for the past sixty-three years, warmth and whimsy are two exceedingly important facets of my personality. While some people might think those two qualities are mutually exclusive, I see them as the two sides of the unique coin God created me to be.

That’s why I've chosen that tagline for my writing. I cannot write novels about subjects I’m not serious about. Or ones that I don’t feel good about. I must care about my lead characters and their problems, no matter how mixed up or offbeat, and I must inspire my readers to love and care about them, too.

But I also have a sense of humor. A strange one at times, I admit. But it’s just as much a part of my writing voice as of my personality. No matter how serious a situation is, something to smile at is seldom far away. I find that to be true in real life as well.

Some of my books are more amusing than others, and—honestly—some are probably too offbeat to ever be published. But I had fun writing them, I've learned a great deal from writing them, and I pray I’ve honored God in writing them.

So warmth & whimsy represents the serious and the frivalous. The sad and the happy. The despair and the hope. Because my life is based on my relationship with God through faith in his son, Jesus Christ, perhaps a more complete tagline would be with warmth, whimsy, & light.

I live in God’s light, and I want others to see and live in His light, too.

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