Allow me first to express my gratitude to Authors Lounge for the opportunity to explain a few things about my book. I guess the first thing I should address is the title. Specifically calling him The Satan instead of just Satan. It might surprise you to know that Satan is not his name. In the original text of the Bible he is always referred to as The Satan, meaning the adversary. The translators shortened it by removing ‘the,’ and just calling him Satan, causing the confusion of people thinking it’s his name. Surprisingly, Lucifer isn’t actually his name either. You can find out in the book what his real name is. Yeah I know it’s a shameless prompt, but selling books is hard, friends.

The book follows a budding journalist, Lance Baylor, from a devout Catholic, “old money” family who thinks he’s had a really tough life, and in some respects he’s right. Some childhood trauma has caused lance to become agnostic about religion and searching for answers. Feeling as if God never answered any of his prayers, he jumps at the chance to interview the Satan thinking, not only will his questions will be answered, he would also fast track his career and get the credibility he needs to expose his childhood abuser.

Some of you may want to know how he knows it’s really The Satan. Let’s just say there is no mistaking who is responsible for the actions leading into this story.

How is he going to get the truth out of The Satan?  Lance actually thinks he can trick the Satan into telling him the truth.

Why write a book from this angle anyway? Some of you may want to know. Truthfully, probably none of you were thinking that, but it’s the best way I could think of to tell you how I got my inspiration to write this book.

My angle and inspiration comes from the fact that Christian Apologetics (defending the faith) can get preachy sometimes. Something that the people we are trying to reach with our message consider a turn off. Our method can defeat our purpose a lot of times. I thought it would be better to add some entertainment to it.

The subject matter, outside of the family drama my main character is experiencing, is a very sore issue in the Christian church today. That is a doctrine/teaching that claims God has planned every single event that has ever happened on this planet from before time began. They claim that we don’t actually have free-will. That what we do has been predestined to happen. Surely you can all see how this doesn’t sit well with people when we consider all the heinous acts being committed today, and in the past.

The God that would plan all this evil in the world is not a God I would serve. Fortunately scripture, when properly understood, makes it clear that this is not the case. There’s a passage of scripture verse that addresses this 1^st Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.

I consider that doctrine so egregious that it had to have come from The Satan himself, and being so, he must have had an evil plot connected to it. Which he does, and reveals to Lance in the book. That wasn’t another shameless plug, just an explanation.

The book addresses a myriad of issues. Sexual abuse and survival, family secrets, blind ambition, end time prophecies, and of course, false doctrine. So although I consider it Christian Fiction, my audience can be anyone that has ever had to deal with the issues that Lance Baylor has had to. I hope readers can be inspired by Lance Baylor to confront “The Monsters” in their lives that have abused them, and realize their own strength in surviving their abuse. I also hope some burning Bible questions are answered along the way.

 I didn’t intent to make it a series, but I left the ending open, so my readers are asking for more. And more they will have. I’m already plotting the story line for the next continuation. I’ll give you a hint; Melchizedek is involved. Don’t even try to figure out how.

There’s a little of me in Lance Baylor. Although I pretty much grew up in the Church, and come from a religious family, I became agnostic in my teens. Some things just didn’t add up for me at the time. I would ask questions my older family members couldn’t answer and get a look like I was a demon. It wasn’t until my late teens that I encountered a gentleman that could explain things to me satisfactorily. Unfortunately, he was a Rastafarian, and so I became for a really short time. I soon abandoned that sect, and though I regained my faith in God, I remained a “sinner.”

Finally, 15 years ago, I decided to truly follow Christ and dove head first into scripture to ensure I wasn’t deceived again into believing false doctrine. Always being fond of reading books, I guess the transition to writer was inevitable. Interview With The Satan is the first book I’ve published, but actually, the second one I’ve written. “The Four Rubicons That Shaped The Human Condition” was my first and will be published by the end of the year by God’s grace.