I’m afraid I have difficult news to share. Mom called me a little while ago, and I’m here to share it with you so you can know how to pray. John and Andrea (my sister and her husband) arrived, and Mom and Dad are heading back to Newberry now. The doctor who looked over the MRI is certain that Dad has cancer. I guess they can tell a lot from the MRI. The cancer is also inoperable, which means they are unable to remove it without causing damage to Dad’s brain and impairing him in some way. The good news is that there is no second tumor. There is only the one. more…

At around 3 p.m. yesterday, my sister, Andrea, called me with the results of Dad’s CAT scan. My dad, Larry Blumer, has experienced a few weeks of dizziness to the point that my mom, Rhoda, didn’t want him driving. We all expected that this was only an inner-ear infection. We were wrong.

Dad has a tumor about the size of a walnut inside his skull behind his right ear. It also appears that another tumor may be located at the other side of his brain. Whether this is cancer we don’t yet know. The doctors checked my dad’s lungs, and they are fine. I am waiting to hear from my mom or my sister this morning since the doctors at the small hospital in Newberry, Michigan, told my dad to go to Marquette General Hospital in Marquette, Michigan. Last night, the doctors there were ready to receive my dad and do more tests to determine what can or cannot be done. I haven’t yet heard what they discovered and decided. more…

http://www.adamblumerbooks.com/blessings-book-giveaway/

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It’s official. I proofread the page proofs (the book in layout) of my novel over the least couple of weeks and submitted the final corrections last Friday. Today I can say (with a great sense of liberation) that the project is finally finished, and the book is done. The only thing I have yet to see is the back cover; I should see that in a couple of weeks. Praise the Lord! What a journey!

So what’s next? Promotion, promotion, promotion—as much as my schedule allows. More on that soon. And the next novel, of course.

I recently had the rare (and surprising) opportunity to write a column for the Christian Fiction Online Magazine. Somebody didn’t turn his column in, so I had a couple of days to write a substitute column. I jumped at the chance. Here’s my article “Ketchup on the Keyboard.” It’s amazing how God opens doors. My article appears among several by a number of big-name authors. I truly consider myself blessed.

http://christianfictiononlinemagazine.com/brilliant_night.html