by AJ Sam | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog
Oh my God! Not “OMG”, but OH MY GOD. Spoken, whispered, shouted, and posted with reverence to EL Shaddai (Lord God Almighty), Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Will Provide), Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals), Jehovah Rohi (The Lord My Shepherd), and other appellations that...
by AJ Sam | Jan 20, 2025 | Blog
Hi. I’m AJ Sam, author and self-publisher of A Journey Far: Ibere. This blog regarding my first novel, A Journey Far: Ibere, shares the challenges I faced bringing this work to fruition. But first, I’ll begin with an outline of the story. Spanning the 15 years...
by AJ Sam | Jan 12, 2025 | Blog
As I continue journaling in Recognizing God’s Direction in Your Life, I’m realizing that I’m learning a lot more than I anticipated. I already knew that’s exactly how God works, sharing revelations you never saw coming. I just didn’t expect...
by AJ Sam | Jan 12, 2025 | Blog
History Drives the Fiction The writing of A Journey Far: Ibere, has been quite a journey for me. For 20 years – first putting pen to paper, then fingertips to keys, then rewrites and revisions – this book developed from a college assignment to random...
by AJ Sam | Oct 1, 2024 | Blog
I read an article in a 2010 edition of Writer’s Digest magazine that spoke of authors putting themselves in their stories. I don’t mean how Stan Lee puts himself in his Marvel Comics movies through cameo roles. And not as the narrator who is charged to keep the tale...