Downloads!!

You can now download my newest book "Warrior" as well as "Thankful To Be Useful" and "He's The Pen, I'm The Paper" in ebook form on my website in the links section. Today is the first day "Warrior is available and hopefully I will be getting it in paperback soon!!!

Plenty to to again!!

God is opening so many doors right now I'm not sure how I will ever get them all done! In Your timing God!!

Ok finishing up the documentary and showing the first 20 minutes at UC Clermont on June 14th. Just need the credits and it's done!

Teaching at the Ohio Center for Broadcasting the next two weeks.

Putting to together the table of contents and making a cover for "Warrior"!!

Shooting a music video!

Request to do another music video!

Shooting with a corporate client!

And somewhere in all that taking a vacation and celebrating my son's birthday!

God grant me the time to keep up with everything!

Getting Things Done!

Finally I'm finishing up a few projects! Thank You God for giving me the time to get them done!

I will have my documentary "Candlelight By Night" finished up this weekend with the voice over and credits done. A 20 minute preview will be happening at the University of Cincinnati Clermont County campus on June 14th at 7pm. Very excited to have that happening!

"Warrior" has been delayed due to editing. I'm hoping to have some news on that front very soon.

I've been plugging away on "Healer" my book that appears to be on track for a release in 2012 unless something unforeseen happens and it comes out this year!

Some great faith based movies are coming out soon!! "Courageous" from the church that made the movies "Flywheel", "Facing the Giants", and "Fireproof" is due out this fall. In theater's now is "Soul Surfer".

It's been a great year so far!!!

God bless you! Please keep the people in Japan, along the Mississippi, and other areas where natural disasters are occurring in your prayers.

Slowing down

I've been a bit negligent in posting updates so here we go.

I have been forcing myself to slow down a bit and get a few things finished and put one on hold for a month or so.

Warrior is being run through the editing paces. I've gone over it quite a few times and made more changes in verb tenses and using different words than ever before. It is my best work to date. Right now it's in the hands of Jim Mohr who does my website and has edited some of my work in the past. He's a true life saver and great friend.

I have been very slow to get to work on documentary I'm at least done with the interviews and I've been dragging my feet on the reenactments. It's not been easy to get that figured out.

God has been very good to me in seeing more positive reviews come up on my books on amazon.com. He has also opened a few doors for me and opened up my heart more than it has been in 8 or 9 years. He's surrounded me with many great friends and helped me to mature in many ways. There is no better feeling than to know that God is still working in your life and that He is still there everyday.

God bless each and everyone who reads this..encourage them, inspire them, comfort them, and keep them safe. Amen

Ready for a break

Been way too busy for words....Ok so lets start the rundown.

I've finished shooting all the interviews for the Underground Railroad documentary I'm working on. Very good news. Now it's on to the other parts such as reenactments, music and narrator. Still a ton to do to get this thing ready to release in May/June 2011.

I have another documentary coming up with my girlfriend on steamboat travel on the ohio river. Not much started their yet but some good sources aren't too far off.

"Warrior" is going through the editing and formatting process. I plan to make it available in paperback and ebook. Which brings me to a decision I've been thinking about quite a bit. I am going to try to release all my books in ebook/pdf for free on a few websites to be named later. I just got a nook and think it would be great to have them available for free since the nook can read pdfs.

Finally I'm turning 31 on friday and hope that means I can get a little bit of a break and get some sleep. I've been very busy and could really use the rest.

Blessings to everyone! God is in control.

Finishing the year!

As we wind down to the end of the year did you get everything you had planned done? Do you have any regrets? Were there some distractions on the way?

This year I've achieved more than I usually do in a year. I published a second version of "He's the Pen, I'm the Paper, and first version of "Thankful to be Useful." I finished writng "Warrior" and have a good start on "Healer." I got to shoot a music video with a great and talented artist "Appointed" for Georgia. I started a documentary on the Underground Railroad about the most recognized county for spots on the Underground Railroad. Professionally it was a fantastic year!

Personally God opened many doors I've been praying about for quite a while.  My health has improved dramatically as have many of my abilities. God is so good!

Thank you God for all that you did this year! I know that each year can't be like this but I thank you for it and hope that I will be thankful for it as the New Year begins.

Don't wait for the new year to start!! Start praying about next year and what God would have you do!

Completion and Reflection

As of today I have finished writing "Warrior." It's been an incredible journey taking me to new places in my writing and showing me the darker side of our spiritual battles that I don't think we are always aware of.

It's been a very busy year for me. While writing "Warrior" I also worked on ending and restarting "Small Town Coroner" which despite have a great ending left me wanting to know more about the characters and they struggles they may face in having a family.

We all have our struggles and to delve into the fears, ups, and downs was just too tempting to leave alone.

I also shot a music video for Christian recording artist Appointed. It had been several years since we had last made contact but about three weeks ago I got a message on facebook from someone I didn't know wanting to be my friend. Normally I don't say yes but this time I did. She wanted to do a music video for an upcoming album. So I said yes definatly.

So we start off with song selection..which lead to a lot of driving around in my car trying to find pictures,shots and much more to be a music video together. It was a huge adrenaline rush. So I had to slow down and get some research done as the song was selected. My girlfriend Melissa was a huge help during this process.

Next we had to figure out some details of how many people would be involved and when. So a week went by and then we set a date.

Then we got together in Cincinnati to get started. We spent close to eleven hours shooting in different lighting and locations. This pushed me to some places creatively I don't get the chance to go with video very often. So at the end of the day I think we were all pretty spent but had a great time working together.

Instead of shooting more I said I had enough and two days later I edited together the video with the help of Rodney Reed keeping me on the beat when I couldn't and Andy Crosier giving great suggestions to polish the whole project up. This was my first real venture using Final Cut Pro for a project like this.

So in the end everyone loved it and it was my best work. So here I am now trying to come down off the high of the project and relax. Trying to get back to even keel after working on a project like this is no easy task. Please keep me in your prayers and thank you for taking the time to read what I've been up too. Finally thank God for allowing all this to come together.

Warrior Preview

Writing and Fear

It has been a productive month for writing. Warrior is really taking form. I'm close to 60 pages in so that's very good. It's been a struggle to keep a writing schedule and stay motivated so the writing has been a little here, not much today, a lot the next day and then a week or so of thinking about the theme of the book. Sticking to the theme has made this a really big challenge but it's great to be stretched and grow.

Fear...
Do you ever just get scared? When live is going really well or going really bad I hit that point. I just doubt many things that are out of my control. You ever get that feeling?

Is there something like a movie, or place that really scares you?

Update

I've been writing Warrior at least 4 days a week. It's going a bit slower than I have previously written but doing an entire book on the many wars of our faith and our battles each day needs to be addressed.

Thankful To Be Useful is going to be up on the website very soon.(Just a few edits away)

I've been trying to get my novel going but it's been a struggle. I keep having problems with the order of the story. I've started over 3 times so far.

God is really starting to open a lot of doors for my writing(which is really his). I am hopeful that this year I will have quite a few chances to share my faith and books. You can now find some "mini" sermons I've done on Anderson Community Television here in Ohio.

Stay blessed, encouraged, and faithful friends!

A Poem from Warrior

Thought I would give you a sneak peak of Warrior.

Sick And Shaken

Every breath is shaky,
Every inch of the body aching,
No more tears left to cry,
The doctor says there is no chance of recovery,
Family is too scared to come,
It hurts to open your eyes,
Your voice is barely a whisper,
But in your mind,
You still pray,
Clutching steadfast to your faith,
No doubting,
You trust God for every breath you breathe,
Then,
When the Doctor tells your family to prepare for the worst,
You gain strength,
Breathing becomes easier,
Your eyes get brighter,
And laughter fills your mouth,
Tears run down your face,
You get healed,
In Jesus name.

Another begins

Very early this morning I began writing Warrior. This will be my next faith based poetry book. I am very hopeful that this will help many people and that God's hands will be upon it. I pray that God uses it for His glory. God bless you and keep you and yours safe.

Shane

Back on track

I'm thankful to finally have some time to get back to the blog. I've been trying to finish up small town coroner, working on the novel which isn't going all that well, getting ebook versions of He's the Pen, I'm the Paper and Thankful to be Useful available on my website. Thankfully my good friend and webmaster of my website Jim Mohr has been extremely helpful and encouraging about it. Jim is a very good friend and by his talents I have been able to reach people online for almost 10 years now. Once the books are up on the website I intend to begin my next book Warrior. Life has been so good and God is really shinning on my life. Thank You God for all the blessing you have placed upon my family, friends, career and my entire life. God bless each and everyone who reads this.