I feel like I've fallen down a bit on the job promoting Because the Angels  the last few days.  Partly it's because of the school shooting in Newtown, CT.  It seems callous to promote a novel after someting like that.  Although when I said as much in my Facebook status, my brother took up the reins in a comment and promoted it for me.

One of the things I value about working with Christian Peacemaker Teams is that I get to work with people of different ages, and one of the benefits of that, is that I get to learn how to use social media.

Last spring, my novel Because the Angels appeared in paperback.  I wrote about the spiritual circumstances of its genesis in Where the sacred has met the profane in my fiction-writing life: The story behind my novel, Because the Angels.

This is a bit dated, since I haven't been able to read normal size print without pain since about 2000, but I thought it was still worthwhile as a reference.  The un-annotated works are mostly sources from Dr. Jane Adas.  It also chronicles my own growth--I'm a bit embarrassed by the naivete of expressed in some of the annotation I wrote in the mid-1990s.

Abboushi, W.F. The Unmaking of Palestine. Brattleboro, VT. Amana Books, 1990.