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Fri, 10/31/2008

Jonathan Friesen, author of Jerk, California - our blogger the week of 11/3:

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Jonathan Friesen is our guest blogger during the week of November 3rd. If you have any questions for Jonathan Friesen, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some more information about Jerk, California:

Twitch, Jerk, Freak—Sam Carrier has been called them all. Because of his Tourette’s syndrome, Sam is in near constant motion with tics and twitches and verbal outbursts. So, of course, high school is nothing but torment. Forget friends; forget even hoping that beautiful, perfect Naomi will look his way. And home isn’t much better with his domineering stepfather reminding him that the only person who was more useless than Sam was his dead father, Jack. But then an unexpected turn of events unearths the truth about his father. And suddenly Sam doesn’t know who he is, or even where he’ll go next. What he does know is that the only girl in the world who can make him happy and nervous at the same time is everywhere he turns . . . and he’d give anything just to be still.

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Fri, 10/31/2008

The Knights Templar—A Novelists Dream by Michael P. Spradlin:

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At their founding, they were a poor monastic order. As Warrior Monks, the King of Jerusalem gave them the responsibility of protecting Christian pilgrims on the roads to and from the Holy City. In gratitude for their service, the King housed them in the Temple of Solomon. They were known then as the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and King Solomon's Temple, shortened soon after to the Knights Templar.

It is the mysterious founding of this group of knights that lays at the foundation of my new novel The Youngest Templar: Keeper of The Grail. Shortly after taking residence in King Solomon's temple, the knights began an extensive excavation of the ground beneath the Temple. No one has ever been able to discover what it is they found with all the digging.

But they must have found something, an artifact, a hidden or long lost text, or some other item of great value to Christianity. For almost overnight, this poor monastic order became the most powerful, wealthy and influential organization in all of Christendom. Recognized throughout the Christian world by wearing white tunics with bright red crosses across the chest, the Knights Templar amassed tremendous wealth, lands, and influence in a matter of a few short years.

Posted by Penguin Group USA on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 9:32am. in
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