Episode 001: The Making of Adversity - Keeping the Faith by Sidney St. James

<p>As a three decade professional genealogist I wrote several family history books before continuing my career as a best selling author in creative nonfiction, fantasy, science fiction, detective mysteries and romance novels. The skills I learned in researching family histories and introducing them in my writing of many of 50+ novels was first used in my debut novel, Book 1 of the Faith Chronicles, <a href='https://books.apple.com/us/book/adversity-keeping-the-faith/id1479702912?mt=11&amp;id=1479702912&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4'><em>Adversity - Keeping the Faith</em></a>.</p><p>After many years of research in studying my own family history from Oldenburg, Germany to Frelsburg, Texas, beginning in the <a href='https://library.tamu.edu/studyspaces/'>Texas A&amp;M Reserve Reading Room</a> at the library during my college days with endless strips of microfilm, <a href='https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XSMSRYG?tag=books2read02-20'>Adversity</a> had its beginning.</p><p>It is amazing how, as adults, we struggle during our childhood through the date-pocketed courses of history...bored, disenchanted, waiting only for the end of that cobwebbed test of endurance. In later years, we find that history is the most fascinating and stimulating of all areas of knowledge. We can ask ourselves, why this unfortunate paradox? Has &quot;history&quot; really changed? The answer is...No!”</p><p>However important dates, names, and places may be to an expert understanding of history, they are not history, but only the checkpoints and framework of history. This novel is about people, real people, blood and bones, loves and hates, strengths, passions, weaknesses, and belief in Jesus Christ, our Lord. History is joys and sorrows, failures and successes, heartbreaks and ecstasies. What is history? History is power, the exercise of power, and the vacuum of power.</p><p>Please join me and listening to the early foot-work that brought about the beginning of this novel.</p><p>Happy Listening!</p><p> #sidneystjames #creativenonfiction #texashistory