The wait is over...
Many of you have read my friend E.K. Jonathan's novel "All Things New," an excellent full length book that contains fictional interviews and experiences that take place in the new system. Although the work is purely imaginative, many I have known and even a few complete strangers have come up to me to express their thoughts about it, and some have felt it has in some ways helped them to even anticipate the new system even more.
I am happy to announce on his behalf that a 'sequel' to this novel has been written which pertains to the ressurection. The full epub version of this book has not been released to the public yet, but for now you can see the first installment of this novel that will be released in a series of posts at theunrighteousnovel.blogspot.com. When the ePub is available, I will likely make another post.
The following is a direct quotation from the preface of this new novel…
"When I first set out to write the book that would later become All Things New, I had no idea what would become of it. Would I even finish it? Would it be something worth reading? Would anyone other than a few close friends even bother to skim its pages, or would it end up a half-finished and sloppy pre-first draft on an old hard drive slowly decaying its way towards oblivion? Later on, as I put in the hours and slowly saw the book taking shape, new questions riddled my mind...”
“Fact: We have no idea how any of this stuff will go down. Well, not exactly, anyway. And the farther we gaze into the future, the hazier things become. The book you’re about to read here deals with events centuries into the New World. Will the unrighteous have the thoughts and hindrances that I’ve described in these pages? Maybe. Will New World communities’ systems of organization and commerce function as they do in the fictional towns of Clive and Bighton? Who knows? Certainly not I. So why, you may be wondering, pontificate so extensively about it?...”
“While I’d imagined All Things New would prove encouraging to at least a handful of those who took the time to peruse it, I never expected the overwhelming positive feedback that the book has managed to garner. To date, I’ve received dozens of emails and donations from friends around the world explaining just how encouraged and thrilled they were by the stories. Some were battling depression. Some were comforting older ones. Some had just experienced tragedy. One sister had actually been praying for help in visualizing the earthly paradise before inadvertently stumbling across the book. Needless to say, it felt good bolstering up the friends in that way.”
“The purpose of this book is not to fuel controversy, nor is it intended to push certain ideas. It’s merely to spark discussion. Is it speculative? Well, yes. Will some disagree with certain aspects? I imagine so. Of course, it’s likely the case that no two Witnesses on Earth have the same mental picture of what paradise will be.
I genuinely hope that the words in these pages will encourage you...”
Happy reading!
Many of you have read my friend E.K. Jonathan's novel "All Things New," an excellent full length book that contains fictional interviews and experiences that take place in the new system. Although the work is purely imaginative, many I have known and even a few complete strangers have come up to me to express their thoughts about it, and some have felt it has in some ways helped them to even anticipate the new system even more.
I am happy to announce on his behalf that a 'sequel' to this novel has been written which pertains to the ressurection. The full epub version of this book has not been released to the public yet, but for now you can see the first installment of this novel that will be released in a series of posts at theunrighteousnovel.blogspot.com. When the ePub is available, I will likely make another post.
The following is a direct quotation from the preface of this new novel…
"When I first set out to write the book that would later become All Things New, I had no idea what would become of it. Would I even finish it? Would it be something worth reading? Would anyone other than a few close friends even bother to skim its pages, or would it end up a half-finished and sloppy pre-first draft on an old hard drive slowly decaying its way towards oblivion? Later on, as I put in the hours and slowly saw the book taking shape, new questions riddled my mind...”
“Fact: We have no idea how any of this stuff will go down. Well, not exactly, anyway. And the farther we gaze into the future, the hazier things become. The book you’re about to read here deals with events centuries into the New World. Will the unrighteous have the thoughts and hindrances that I’ve described in these pages? Maybe. Will New World communities’ systems of organization and commerce function as they do in the fictional towns of Clive and Bighton? Who knows? Certainly not I. So why, you may be wondering, pontificate so extensively about it?...”
“While I’d imagined All Things New would prove encouraging to at least a handful of those who took the time to peruse it, I never expected the overwhelming positive feedback that the book has managed to garner. To date, I’ve received dozens of emails and donations from friends around the world explaining just how encouraged and thrilled they were by the stories. Some were battling depression. Some were comforting older ones. Some had just experienced tragedy. One sister had actually been praying for help in visualizing the earthly paradise before inadvertently stumbling across the book. Needless to say, it felt good bolstering up the friends in that way.”
“The purpose of this book is not to fuel controversy, nor is it intended to push certain ideas. It’s merely to spark discussion. Is it speculative? Well, yes. Will some disagree with certain aspects? I imagine so. Of course, it’s likely the case that no two Witnesses on Earth have the same mental picture of what paradise will be.
I genuinely hope that the words in these pages will encourage you...”
Happy reading!
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Hi Joseph,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing the link to my blog! I hope your readers enjoy it.