Great to have you doing the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, make sure to start at Stop #1 and collect all the clues through all the stops (in order) so you can enter to win one of our top five Grand Prizes!
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- The hunt begins on March 18th at noon, Mountain Standard Time at Stop # 1, Lisa Bergren’s site. (Click here.)
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- You don’t have to rush through the hunt! You have all weekend (till 12 midnight on Sunday). Linger, explore each author’s website, in other words, take your time and have fun!
- Submit your entry for the Grand Prize by collecting the CLUE on each author’s scavenger hunt post, then submitting your answer in the Rafflecopter form at the final stop, back on Lisa’s site. A lot of us are offering additional prizes along the way, so be sure to check those out!
Quick Jim Intro
For those who don’t know me, I’m a husband, dad, friend, guitar player, and a bestselling, Christy Hall of Fame author. I have two outstanding grown sons and live with my amazing wife in eastern Washington state.
You can find out more about me here on my website and can subscribe to my newsletter in the upper right part of this page if you’d like to be encouraged, inspired and sometimes challenged, as well as find out the latest things going on with me.
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Enough intro ’cause I’m really exited to tell you about a brand new project four years in the making. A six book series, co-authored with my dear friend Susan May Warren and her son, David. Here’s a look at the first book in the series, Cast the First Stone, and the story of how the three of us wrote six books together, and still liked each other at the end!
Here’s the story:
The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone series was a long time coming. Ages ago (probably around 2012) Susie and I (Jim) were on a short plane ride together from Asheville, NC to Atlanta. We started talking about someday writing a book together and shared our love of time travel stories.
Then in mid 2016 Susie came up with an idea for a series starring a guy named Rembrandt Stone. She called me, briefly described the idea and asked, “Are you in?” I laughed and gave the only appropriate response: “Are you kidding?”
Susie asked her son David to join the team and in February of 2017 the three of us gathered at my home in eastern Washington (after Susie and David battled a Seattle and eastern Washington snowstorm) and we brainstormed all six of the stories.What the Process of Writing a Novel(s) Together Looks Like
Every collaboration is different so this is only our story. As just mentioned, we brainstormed the six books over a long weekend and when we say brainstormed the books we mean we outlined—in detail—the entire plot and all the twists and turns for each story.
Then in the spring and summer of 2020 Susie started writing the manuscripts while David and I weighed in on the various changes that came up during the drafting. Then David and I edited the stories and finally, I took the finished manuscript into my studio and recorded the audio version(s).
What Each of Us Brings to the Collaboration
One of the fun things about this collaboration is the mixing of two voices. It’s like taking a cab and a merlot and blending them. Both Susie and I have romance in our other novels, with Susie having a lot and Jim having a splash. So with Rembrandt it’s a little more for Jim and a little less for Susie. Nice blend!
Certainly there are more fantastical elements (time travel) with this series—which are of course a staple of Jim’s stories and not as much with Susie’s. So again, a little less for Jim, a little more for Susie. Plus action, suspense, mystery … there’s a reason Ted Dekker says, “Cast the First Stone is a mind-bender of the first order.”
And what David brings is not only his brilliance in brainstorming plots, but he’s our webmaster and Time Lord, keeping all the time travel elements logical (as logical as time travel can be!) across all six books.
What Cast the First Stone is About
The short version: Rembrandt Stone is a detective who time travels in order to solve cold cases. But it’s of course much more complex than that. Here’s the long version:
One case haunts him. One chance to fix the past. One mistake could cost him everything.
Ex-Minneapolis Police Detective Rembrandt Stone walked away from a career he loved—just the price of being sure he can come home to the wife and daughter he cherishes. But he can’t shake the deep regret over a case left behind.
When his mentor, the former Chief of Homicide dies and leaves Rembrandt with a box of cold cases and a mysterious watch, he finds himself thrust into a world he recognizes—a world from twenty years ago—the same world he’s woken from in a cold sweat a hundred times. But is it a dream, or some kind of twisted reality?
If he solves the case that plagues him, and justice is finally served, will it destroy the life he loves?
Strap in for a mind-bending, time travel thrill ride in Book One of this riveting new series, The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone.
What We Hope Readers Will Take Away From Cast the First Stone and the Rest of the Series
First we want them to go on a thrill ride. This series is like a roller coaster. High highs, low lows and a fast pace. But on a deeper level we want them to think about what they regret. What they’d do over if they had a chance and why they’d do it over. It’s something we all wrestle with and Rembrandt is definitely in the struggle of his life over find the answer to those questions.
Would you Like to Win Yourself a Free Copy of Cast the First Stone? All Three versions?
Yep, you could win a physical copy, an ebook copy, AND the audio version (voiced by yours truly). How? Easy. Just sign up for my newsletter and tell me in the comments that you’ve signed up. (If you’re already a subscriber to my newsletter, just let me know and you’ll be entered in the drawing.)
And if you’d like to check out the audio version and hear what I sound like, just click right here. You’ll be taken to the Rembrandt Stone website. Scroll down to the bottom of the back to get the first chapter for free!
If you can’t wait, you can get Cast the First Stone at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, Kobo, Audible … just about everywhere books and audio books are sold!
Now, on with the countdown.
This is Stop # 23
Clue to Write Down: a romance,
Your Next Stop in the hunt, Stop # 24, is on my friend, Rachel Hauck’s site! Click right here!
Enjoy!
Jim (James L. Rubart)
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