Hi folks, although I haven't been blogging much lately, I'm still alive! Sonya and the girls are back in Canada now, so I wanted to spend as much time with them as I could before they went back. I'm scheduled to drive back in another five weeks with all our stuff...
On another note, I've now finished two of three book I have coming out in the fall. So between packing and watching vampire movies (more on that later), I've been doing a lot of writing and editing. The first book I have coming out this fall is co-authored with Patrick Madrid, and concerns the SSPX schism. Our Sunday Visitor is publishing it.
The second, which was also a lot of fun, is called Surprised by Canon Law. My buddy Michael Trueman (another lay canonist) and I slapped together 150 of the most common questions we receive from fellow laity concerning canon law. So it is very much a canon law Q&A for the Catholic working man. It was a lot of fun to do so nobody, to our knowledge, has ever set out to write a canon law book for Catholic laity before, except on the topic of annulments. (We covered it, but we also cover a heck of a lot of other areas of interest to the laity as well).
Anyway, about the vampire movies. I'm thinking of doing another Catholic horror novel. Basically, one concerning the culture of death. Since vampires are an ancient literary metaphor for sexual immorality, I figured I would start there.
