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"Spero is an imaginative fantasy that subtly instructs, entertains, and intellectually provokes the reader. It is fascinating reading. I'm definitely hooked on this series." Jean Heimann at Catholic Fire.
"...intelligent as well as inspiring..." Terry Barga at whattodoabout.com.
The first book in the Birth Pangs series, Fidelis, is Latin for faithfulness. The second book, Spero, is Latin for hope. Spero is an exploration, in fiction, of what hope is and why we need it. It is an exploration of what things are good to put our hope in and what things aren't. In the America of the future portrayed in the Birth Pangs series, all of the things that people have traditionally put their hope in have been brought low. There are no government agencies, no schools, and not even churches. In the face of daily perils, people have to figure out how where they are going to place their hope in dealing with them. In the end, there is one daily peril that surpasses them all: death. Spero is about people- even good people- putting their hope in lesser means to tackle lesser problems and being confronted with the consequences. Spero is a 'discussion' about our chief problems and what solutions, if any, are available to resolve them.
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Four months later than I had intended, but there it is. Now it is time for editing and all that jazz. You can look for Book 2 to be released around Christmas of 2008. As for the title… it will be released in due time, but if you have a guess, and are the first one to get it right, you’ll get a free copy of the paper back. Although as of this writing, some are hot on the trail.
The book came in at about 154,000 words.
I posted a section for the posting of errata and we certainly could have posted quite a bit. However, in anticipation of the re-release of book one in hard cover, I had the text scoured by yet another individual. There may be some flaws that remain here and there, but hopefully these won’t be weird spell check errors or odd grammar formulations. I kept away from any kind of revision that seriously might affect the version itself. Not only have I set the text for the hard cover, but I have arranged for the soft cover to have the new text, as well. I don’t mean the illustrations and other nice features of the hard cover, just the text itself. So, all future copies of the soft cover are cleaned up. There was one very glaring error that was a bit embarrassing indeed, and I’m glad it is now eradicated.
There is quite of stuff going on right now in the world of A.R. Horvath. To begin with, we recently had a baby girl. That’s great, but she’s got Spina Bifida. So, it has been a drain on time and resources traveling to hospitals and what not. Along with that, we’ve been turning our 1 bedroom house into a 4 bedroom house. (We have four kids) Only in the last week have I got back into the house and only yesterday did I get the new office online. I still have a great many projects around the house before I can settle in to start up book 2. (Birth Pangs will be 7 books total, if you didn’t know).
That all said, much of book 2 is done- inside my head. That’s the way it went down with book 1 as well. It went through my brain for weeks and weeks and then I finally got the opportunity to sit down and write and it all just spills out. This is in fact why I do have the first 20 pages or so of book 2 already done. It was in my head and driving me NUTS so I had to sit down and write it. It’s killing me not to write the rest but I simply must get these projects done.
I do have a big Birth Pangs related event coming up. I will be at Cornerstone Music festival (here: http://cornerstonefestival.com/ ) promoting my book as well as some of the Christian ministry activities that I am involved in. It’s not the sort of thing that someone just ‘happens’ to be in town for, so despite the fact that there will be close to 40,000 folks running around, it’s not the kind of thing that a myspacer is likely to wander into. That said, if you ARE a c-stoner, feel free to look me up among the hundreds of booths!
C-stone will be from June 25th to July 1st ish. It is in July that I plan on sitting down to write book 2 and hope to be done by November… if I succeed, be looking for a Spring release! Kudos to anyone that can guess the name of book 2… you should be able to figure it out from hints and details in the book.
Anyone that has already read book 1 is welcome to read the first pages of book 2. Just let me know- authorATbirthpangs.com.