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The 2nd Demon Officially Available
Links to ordering “The 2nd Demon: Tales of the Grimvox” in ebook and print format are listed below
Nook and Barnes&Noble Paperback
Enjoy!
The 2nd Demon is two weeks late but is here!
“The 2nd Demon: Tales of the Grimvox” is now available as an ebook on most platforms. It will be available for order as paperback after Friday, January 10, 2025.
I was hoping to get the book out before Christmas but Santa brought us a pre-Christmas gift, a six pack of flu!!!
Blurb: The second demon possesses Jeremiah Stone, the brother Jonathan Steel never knew he had. Jeremiah has kidnapped Steel and is using the Grimvox, an arcane repository of demonic history to sift Steel’s memories. Searching for a specific memory, Jeremiah and Steel relive their past lives and the legacy of their father, the Captain. With the help of Father Caskey, Josh searches for his adopted father. Steel must escape his brother and the connection with the Grimvox before he loses his mind. And, his life!
I must admit I just checked over the final galley proof and read the last chapter. I’m still trying to see through my tears! I hope you enjoy this book. It is the culmination of many previous books and the coming together of a lot of loose ends. It definitely sets the stage for the last book in the series. Have a Happy New Year!
Intentional Christmas
Acts 4:25 – 28 says: You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:
“‘Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
26
The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord
and against his anointed one.’
27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. 28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
I often wonder why the massacre of all baby boys under the age of two in Bethehem was not mentioned in historical accounts. If such an event were to occur today, it would be on all the podcasts and news feeds within hours of the event. Frankly, the people of that time feared King Herod so much they cowered under his ruthless rule and never challenged his deeds. There is a record of a revolt against Herod around the time of Jesus’ birth in which hundreds, and possible thousands of Jewish populace were crucified and the crosses lined the road to Jerusalem. THAT was recorded in history.
But the death of maybe a dozen children in a small obscure village was not significant in the vast ocean of Herod’s foul deeds.
It is hard to accept that all of these events were allowed by God to accomplish His greater purpose. Let’s face it, the worst deed in the history of mankind, that is the death of God in man form on the cross, led to the greatest deed in the history of mankind, the empty tomb and death conquered.
As we consider the Christmas story, which is far more than a fable, let us pause and reflect on the cost of the Prince of Peace’s journey into our midst. After all Jesus was a baby born to die. But death would soon perish beneath the power of the Resurrection. And this is Good News indeed in a world heavily burdened by fear and chaos. He came to bring us good tidings of great joy.
May you find peace and joy this season as the year comes to a close.
And, I was hoping I would have my book available before Christmas. Here is the cover for the ebook.
I am waiting for the final version of the print cover and then I can release the book. I am excited about this next to the last chapter in the Chronicles of Jonathan Steel.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
“The 2nd Demon: Tales of the Grimvox”
I received an email recently asking if “The 4th Demon” was the last book in “The Chronicles of Jonathan Steel”. It is NOT. The fact is, 2024 has not been a friendly year for my writing. Back in January, 2024 we went to Walt Disney World for the International Art Festival at EPCOT. The week were gone proved to be another “snowmageddon” in our deep south location here in northwest Louisiana. The temperature plummeted to 9 degrees that Tuesday night.
Three years before, a similar event took place and we had a pipe freeze in the attic above our garage. The ensuing flood took out the garage ceiling. We were at the house when it happened and found it promptly. Now, digging through frozen clay, ice, and snow to find the water turnoff valve was a chore but we managed. I had a cut off valve put in the attic to cut off water to that pipe which supplied only one faucet outside.
Well on that night in January, the cut off valve froze! Wednesday about 6 PM I checked out doorbell camera from our room in Disney World to see if we had lost power. Plenty of power but I saw water running across our front porch into the yard! A friend up the street was kind enough to check and we were able to let him into the house. The pipe had burst AGAIN and had taken out the ceiling over my study! Lots of computer equipment and memorabilia, etc. were taken out by the flood. Our entire first floor was flooded.
Read the rest of this entry2nd Annual Wholesome Book Fair
Looking for a good book? Want something “wholesome” and inspirational? This coming weekend you can find dozens of well written, inspiring books by local authors at the Wholesome Book Fair.
Saturday, October 26th from 11 AM – 2 PM at Barksdale Baptist Church the Louisiana Chapter of the American Christian Fiction Writers will hold is second annual Wholesome Book Fair. Barksdale Baptist Church at 1714 Jimmie Davis Hwy, Bossier City, LA 71112.
I will be out of town, unfortunately. However, I have donated thirty canvas bags you can load up with the books you buy. And in each bag will be a special coupon to download the ebook version of the first three books of “The Chronicles of Jonathan Steel”. For FREE! Now, only thirty copies will be available so show up early and grab a bag!
For those of you who cannot make the Wholesome Book Fair, Volume 1 of the “The Chonicles of Jonathan Steel” is now available from all major digital book stores. Check out my author page at Amazon!
Come out and support you local Christian authors. Meet and talk with these awesome friends of mine. Learn more about how you can become a published author!
After the Flood
In October, 2023 a tragedy occurred that sent ripples through our local medical community. I won’t go into details just yet. It was devastating to learn we had lost one of our own. In July, 2023 I retired to part time practice status. However, in the aftermath of this tragedy I was asked to step back into an almost full time position for the first half of 2024 in order to make up for the loss of one of my colleagues. For the last six months of 2023 I had been working diligently to write at least four books a year and to jump head on into promotion for our Hope Again Books. Now, that timeline was thwarted. Yes, I used that word. It’s a good word.
Then, on January 17, 2024 I was in Walt Disney World with Sherry and our daughter, Casey for the International Art Festival. Back in Shreveport, Louisiana we had a rare deep freeze come through the night before. At about 7 PM eastern time I checked our doorbell camera at the house just to see if our electricity had gone out. Power was fine. But water was running AWAY from my front door into the front yard and freezing!
I called my good friend up the street and he went into our house. A pipe had frozen in the attic above my study and had taken out the ceiling and flooded the entire first floor of our house. Panic ensued and we had to fly home the next day costing me thousands of dollars, the first of many thousands of dollars spent tin the subsequent six months.
The last six months have been a nightmare. The clean up team was in our house on Friday morning after the house flooded on Wednesday and we had to move out for about six weeks while everything dried out. The team ripped up carpets and baseboards all over the first floor of our house. In my study we lost Sherry’s desktop iMac and multiple other hardware including hard drives with almost thirty years of personal video footage. I lost a plastic bin filled with comic books and magazines from the 1970’s that are irreplaceable.
Read the rest of this entryFree Books!
As the year 2023 draws to a close I have to admit I have not written a new book. However, I have done something I have wanted to accomplish for some time. I have taken “The 13th Demon”, “The 12th Demon”, and “The 11th Demon” and reworked them into one volume of an “author’s” cut.
What is an “author’s cut”? When an author signs a contract to produce a work, that author is now an employee of the traditional publisher. The work is no longer completely the author’s. The publisher is a business and, as a business must produce a work that will bring in money. This means shaping that work into something that can sell and, at the same time, not break the bank. Thus, publishers demand strict word count limits. Word count limits translate into page numbers. Page numbers, in the world of printed books, costs money. There must be some kind of break even at 80,000 words as this seems to be the sweet spot for printed books. Any larger than 80,000 words and the basic cost of printing goes up.
Since I have formed my own publishing entity, I am keenly aware of this. The problem for me as an author was trimming my first two works down from over 100,000 words to 80,000 called for substantial artistic sacrifices. Admittedly placing a word limit can be advantageous. It forces the author to be more creative in the editing process. But, I had to sacrifice entire characters and their story arcs to fit the word limits for these books.
Now, I own the works and I have chosen to restore these dissected parts back into the whole. I have also tuned up the “bread crumbs” I placed that led to future story lines. “The 11th Demon” never suffered from the word limit problem. If anything, it was too short to begin with. I have fleshed it out some more to fill in details on the storylines and the “bread crumbs”.
All three books are now available in one ebook volume. The printed version runs over 1200 pages so I am sticking with the ebook version for now and it can be found in any online book source.
Look for “The Chronicles of Jonathan Steel Vol. 1” and enjoy. The work includes new versions of the first three novels, “The 13th Demon: Dark Covenant”, “The 12th Demon: Wolf Dragon”, and “The 11th Demon: Chimera”.
Now here is the really good news. For a limited time, the first thirty readers who access this link to my “bookfunnel” source can download an ebook version of this collection for free! But hurry! The free books are limited to only 30! FREE BOOKS for first 30 readers!
Free Books!
Three weeks until Christmas!
THE 4TH DEMON: THE TRIAL OF THE 3RD DEMON
First, there was some delay in the availability of my newest book on Amazon and other portals. The books are now available and if you cannot find them by doing a search for “The 4th Demon: The Trial of the 3rd Demon” then search under my name. Also, you can go to hopeagainbooks.com for links to the book. And you can go to my Author Central Page on Amazon to find the books, https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Hennigan/e/B0055JCM3O/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk .
THE 13TH DEMON AND THE 12TH DEMON
So here’s the deal. Charisma Media has ended their Realms imprint and returned the bulk of printed copies of “The 13th Demon” and “The 12th Demon” to me. Right now you can only buy used copies on Amazon so don’t do that! They will charge too much. And the ebooks are not available. I am working on combining these two books into the first volume of “The Chronicles of Jonathan Steel” with new, additional material I was forced to eliminate by Charisma’s draconian editorial process. But that will be after the first of the year.
So I am giving away the first two books for free! That’s right! I have about 40 copies of each and I am bundling them together and will ship you both books for free. All you have to do is pay for shipping and handling fee of $10! This is a good way to introduce others to the world of Jonathan Steel. And, you can start ordering right now. Just go to this PayPal link and place your order. Note that I will be shipping BOTH books, not one or the other. If you already have a book, just give the other away. Again, I only have about 40 copies of each book so don’t delay. Note that the price will be listed as $1 because I have to put a price on the invoice and the shipping will be listed as $9
https://py.pl/m555K — link for purchasing the two books.
CASEY’S SPARROW TEE SHIRT FOR EPILEPSY AWARENESS
Now, to the other issue, my daughter’s tee shirts. If you have read my blog posts in the past, you are familiar with Casey and her life long battle with epilepsy. She has designed an “Epilepsy Warrior” tee shirt to raise money for epilepsy awareness and she will give the proceeds to the Epilepsy Foundation. We have sold about half of the minimal 50 shirts so far and have eight days left in the campaign. Go to https://www.bonfire.com/caseys-sparrow/ and order a tee shirt, a hoodie, or a long sleeve tee shirt.
Thank you for supporting my writing and thank especially for supporting Casey’s efforts to raise epilepsy awareness!
The 7th Demon Arrives!
How far would you go to save the one you love? What if it required you to betray every moral and ethical fiber in your body? What is the cost of love?
Jonathan Steel is about to find out! In Part 1 of “The Unholy Triad”: “The 7th Demon: The Pandora Stone”, Josh Knight is afflicted with a debilitating disease after coming in contact with Pandora’s Box. The only man who has a cure for the disease forces Jonathan Steel to perform three tasks for the Seventh, Sixth, and Fifth Demons of the Council of Darkness in order to save Josh’s life. Steel must embrace evil in order to do good and betray God! As Jonathan Steel races against the clock to perform the first task, he realizes he must deceive his new ally, Max. And Josh, under the influence of the mysterious Pandora Stone is slowly being overcome by the mind of the evil spirit of Pandora!
I have been working on this book nonstop for over a year and a half. During that time my family has had to endure serious medical challenges that are unrelated to COVID. My adult daughter went through a prolonged ordeal of pain and suffering unlike anything I have ever seen in my 40 years of practicing medicine. Throughout this ordeal, her faith remained steady and unchanging and was a beacon of light for my wife and for me. As of the end of July, her pain was relieved after surgery and she is doing very well right now.
When I started this book, COVID was not on the horizon. My daughter was not suffering from pain. And yet, I put Josh into a life threatening medical situation. Talk about art imitating life! It was very difficult for me to finish this book for that reason. In fact, on October 1, 2021 only Part 1 of “The Unholy Triad” will be published. I wanted to get something out there for my readers who have been so kind and so patient. Some of you have reached out through email and we have shared out own personal stories of pain and suffering.
Part 1 is entitled, “The 7th Demon: The Pandora Stone”. This book, along with Part 2 features THREE demons ganging up on Jonathan Steel and his new family. So be WARNED!. This book ends in a cliffhanger. And to reflect that, the price point is much smaller and the second book will be out by December 1, 2021.
I hope you enjoy this book. It will be available on October 1 for print order and for ebook purchase. Just in time for Halloween, this creepy tale may keep in hot and cold running chills!
Book Event, Mark Sutton’s Demon Undertow
First off, request for prayer for Mark Sutton who is receiving treatment for a viral infection. Not COVID! Since he has had a lung transplant, he is immunosuppressed. He and Donna are still planning to be in Shreveport this weekend (they live in Florida) for his book launch of “Demon Undertow”.
We will be in the Well, the coffee shop of Brookwood Baptist Church (at the corner of I49 and Bert Kouns) this coming Saturday, May 15th from 5 to 7 PM. Free coffee and snacks. And, FREE books.
That’s right. Charisma Media, the publisher of my two books, “The 13th Demon” and “The 12th Demon” have returned all rights to me along with remaining inventory. So, this coming Saturday you can come by and pick up a FREE copy of “The 13th Demon: Altar of the Spiral Eye” as long as supply lasts. And, in addition to that, I will be offering the second book, “The 12th Demon: Mark of the Wolf Dragon” and the third book, “The 1tth Demon: The Ark of Chaos” for only $2.50 each. This gives you a chance to sample the Chronicles of Jonathan Steel and see if you would like to continue reading the entire series so far.
But, the feature of our Book Event is Mark Sutton’s newest book: “Demon Undertow”. The cover alone has caused a bit of a stir, but the book is riveting and redemptive in its ultimate message.
Here is a synopsis:
The ocean-side community of Hidden Beach, Florida, is under attack. A series of murders has the police scrambling to find the killer, and as the body count rises, they narrow their search to Henry Watchman, pastor of Hidden Beach Community Church. Though the pastor denies having any part in the murders, he and his wife, Jenna, are hiding a terrible secret.
Vincent Anderson, a young detective on the force, is bending his time and effort to catching the pastor –but the murders continue. And behind it all, a shadowy force rises from the ocean’s depths. Though unseen, it pushes men and women to the brink of ruin. If not stopped, the sinister force will swamp many of Hidden Beach’s citizens in a Demon Undertow.
In addition to this book, Mark’s other fiction book, “Pitfall” about the war in heaven will also be offered. Also, our book, “Hope Again: A Lifetime Plan for Conquering Depression” along with a set of LifeFilters will be offered.
Come on by Saturday evening and have a cup of coffee. Meet and greet Mark and Donna Sutton (we will be using social distancing because of Mark’s illness). Hope to see you there!
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