
I’d rather get on and maybe write another book. It’s not something that I spend hours pondering. What happened to was just like “Woah!” I just thought I’d continue working in television and getting on with my life and then wham, this juggernaut hit me in terms of the success of the book.

But that’s not a conversation that I’m comfortable being in because that wasn’t my intention in my writing it.

We’ll have to see what happens with The Mister. In fact, this is an issue for several of the books of the New Testament: The Pastoral Epistles, Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude have all been described as pseudonymous. Other people put it wherever they see fit, and people can only view stuff through the prism of their own experiences. The Letter of James is often described as pseudonymous, meaning that the letter is attributed to James but not actually written by him. I’m there to entertain people and make them escape daily life, that’s all I want to do. The person to whom this letter is ascribed can scarcely be one of the two members of the Twelve who bore the name James (see Mt 10:23 Mk 3:1718 Lk 6:1415), for he is not identified as an apostle but only as slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ ().This designation most probably refers to the third New Testament personage named James, a relative of.

It’s not a conversation that I particularly want to be a part of. The only Good Book I had ever seen was my great-grandmothers original King James Bible. Romance as a genre comes with a lot of stereotypes and fraught things – whether that be that it’s not well-written, issues of consent on the page, and this question of how we belittle culture made primarily for women – where do you feel your work fits into that conversation and those issues? The book of James is a concise, how-to guide on being a Christian.Although some Christians interpret James as proving that good works play a role in our salvation, this letter actually says that good works are the fruit of our salvation and will attract non-believers to the faith. I had no idea it contained the living, breathing Word of God.
