tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17412773115557623612024-03-13T02:56:36.997-04:00Crimson HarvestThom Mollohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08526876529437443640noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741277311555762361.post-2715777683799445242023-03-10T17:26:00.009-05:002023-03-10T17:26:59.288-05:00<p> Kajori Sheryl Paul for Onlinebookclub.org:</p><p>"Life is a whirlwind journey. At times, we all go astray and make mistakes. What matters is that we correct our course and make amends instead of continuing on an evil path. We just need to have faith and trust in God. Thom Mollohan beautifully portrays this in his novel, Crimson Harvest….</p><!-- wp:paragraph -->
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<p>The predominant themes in Thom Mollohan's Crimson Harvest are repentance and forgiveness. Mollohan weaves a gripping story where good and evil are pitted against each other. He depicts the importance of having complete faith in God without being preachy….</p>
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<p>He portrays a malevolent presence that is very powerful and can tempt anyone with the promise of heady power. Yet, there seems to be something missing in his promises of love and immortality. This evil being is not just a stereotypical villain….</p>
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<p>Crimson Harvest by Thom Mollohan is a fast-paced story that will always keep you wondering with bated breath what would happen next. This amazing book is devoid of any flaws…. Hence, I rate Crimson Harvest 5 out of 5 stars.</p>
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the victims of mixed signals from Church-goers. The doing of “churchy things” on
the one hand and the seeking of ungodly thrills on the other can inadvertently
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">A reflection based on <em>Crimson Harvest</em>, chapter 3.</span>Thom Mollohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08526876529437443640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741277311555762361.post-84155389834100183482013-07-08T11:53:00.000-04:002013-07-08T11:54:33.352-04:00Crimson Harvest on Goodreads!<span style="color: #ead1dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">New! Reviews on Goodreads! If you've read <em>Crimson Harvest</em>, please consider writing a review. If you haven't, take a look at what others are saying about it!</span> <br />
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<em>When teens Heather and Jillian sneak out to go dancing at a new club which promises them “more fun than they had ever had before,” they open up the door to an evil that neither of them realized existed in Argenteret. Kevin, Heather’s uncle, comes for a visit, because he is struggling with his own problems at home and is suddenly wrapped up in rescuing Heather from a powerful Vampire who has several teens, including Jillian and several police officers, under his command to help cover up murder, kidnapping and drug dealing. Heather discovers that her faith in Jesus Christ is much more powerful than evil and the testimony of her faith draws the attention of her uncle, who has always had nothing but contempt for God. The strong faith of Heather’s parents and the demonstration of love by Heather’s church community and the power of prayer all work together in combating the evil which threatens to take the lives of Heather, Kevin, Jillian and perhaps even Heather’s parents.<br /><br />This is a very well-written book which does a great job of developing characters and plot into a highly intriguing and suspenseful account of how one family’s faith is able to overcome a very powerful evil. The conflicts that are attacking and testing the faith of Heather and her family, as well as the struggle that Kevin is having with his own disbelief in God, are well-crafted into the overall struggle of the kidnappings, murder and extortion that are taking place in the main plot line. This is a page-turner with a very strong message about the power of the Christian faith in overcoming evil. The reader will feel the pain, the doubt, the strengthening and the transformation of each of the characters as they work their way through this extraordinary nightmare, which the author has made into a very well-crafted and believable story.</em>Thom Mollohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08526876529437443640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741277311555762361.post-7321375080896933302013-06-19T13:10:00.003-04:002013-06-19T13:13:02.757-04:00Crimson Harvest on Speculative Faith's site... Speculative Faith is a forum for discussion on literary works written with a Christ-centered world view. And Crimson Harvest is certainly that! <br />
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<em>GALLIPOLIS – Local author, pastor and Christian inspirational speaker Thom Mollohan recently released his second book, Crimson Harvest. Mollohan is also the author of The Fairy Tale Parables: Classic Fairy Tales Pointing to God’s Love and Truth.</em><br />
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<em>Mollohan – Well, Crimson Harvest is a sort of Christian response to the “What if…” of vampires. Basically, a young woman named Heather is drawn into believing that “a little stepping-over-the-line can’t hurt anything.” Of course, her doing so is the “trigger” for a very scary turn of events for her and her family. But it also sets the stage, ultimately, for a reckoning between good and evil and shows how faith, or rather the One in Whom she places her faith, saves the day, so to speak.</em><br />
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<em>I am, of course, just wanting to tell a tale that is exciting and suspenseful. In that sense, it’s simply a story. I tried to write it in in such a way that it would appeal to a young adult or teen, but I wrote it so that it would also have significance for someone looking for something “meaty”. In fact, if you like hidden meanings in names and so forth, I enjoyed playing little word games when I wrote Crimson Harvest (most of which are ridiculously obscure).</em><br />
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<em>Diane, my wife, and I have worked with young adults in one way or another for over twenty years now, and have had the privilege of walking with them through some very sticky situations. We’ve seen, for instance, the power that the longing to be loved or the urge to escape pain can have over young men and women and how they can become seduced by the false promises of people who will say whatever works in snaring them. We’ve seen how these things can draw people into some tragic situations.</em><br />
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<em>As the popularity of vampire literature has grown over the years, it began to dawn on me that “vampire”, in the classic sense of a life-stealing personality, is a perfect term to apply to the social pressures at work in our world that exploit the young and unwary. I remember reading some time ago that more money is spent on marketing to teens and young adults than any other group. Whether people believe in a literal devil or not, there are some really bad guys out there who want our kids. Drugs, gangs, and human trafficking are all extreme example of the reality of it.</em><br />
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<em>Of course, I do believe in a literal devil, and I really believe in evil. Crimson Harvest was hard for me to write because I had to decide early on not to “tone evil down”. I’ve seen real evil and I don’t like looking at it. But we can’t really grasp virtue or love or anything good unless we take a long, hard look at evil, too. In fact, I personally would go so far as to say that we can’t really grasp God’s love for us unless we are willing to take long, hard look at the condition of our own hearts and what it did in putting Christ on the cross.</em><br />
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<em>Mollohan – It’s a fast-paced book, so it might not allow for as much opportunity to reflect as I might like, but I still hope that it invokes some thinking about life, the false-promises swirling around us with which our kids must wrestle, and, most importantly, the grace of God that forgives and heals and makes us clean.</em><br />
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<em>Mollohan – I’ve been writing something most of my life. (laughs) I wrote half-a-novel over the course of a few years when I was a teenager, but couldn’t resolve to my satisfaction where it was going. I still have the notes for it somewhere, but I think that if I ever pick it up again, I will go a different route with it now.</em><br />
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<em>Mollohan – The writing process for an article or a short story is pretty much starts for me with an idea that I need to get down on paper. I recognize the source of inspiration as God’s stirring something in my mind and heart and I reflect on how that idea lines up with the Bible. I then sit down with the idea and start writing around it until it finally congeals into a (more-or-less) permanent form, although I’ll pick it to death if I don’t finally submit it. There comes a point when I simply have to say, “I’m done with this now, even if it isn’t quite perfect, because I’ve got other things I have to do.”</em><br />
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<em>As far as books go, I’ve got four more books in progress at the moment. Two are novels, one as a sequel to Crimson Harvest and the other as a major enlargement of a short story I once wrote. Another book is the development of an article I wrote a year or so ago on experiencing a deeper and more victorious spiritual life, and the last one is on what being a dad and husband has taught me about God and the Kingdom of Heaven. This last one is in the final revision stage so I’m hoping to be able to have it out by next year sometime.</em><br />
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<em>Most of the time, notes for my books get scribbled on whatever scraps of paper that I have handy. Sometimes I have a hard time reading what I’ve written, but when I’m excited about an idea, I get a little hasty and sloppy. I then start to organize the notes into an outline, researching elements as necessary. I usually start drafting chapters at that point (when I have time, which seems like never). (laughs)</em><br />
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<em>Mollohan – My wife, Diane, is the biggest help. It seems that God is always using her wisdom and faithfulness to grant me a bigger (and better) perspective on life. My children are great mechanisms of inspirations also. They all know (at least a little) The Fairy Tale Parables, but Ben, my oldest son, is the only one who’s read Crimson Harvest. Even though it is redemptive in the end, it comes across as a bit too dark for the others.</em><br />
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<em>Overall, I’ve been richly blessed in that I’ve had friends and other family members who’ve prodded me at key moments. My sister, Vicky, for instance, encouraged me greatly. And then there is my friend, Kent Williams, who volunteered to go through my final draft of Crimson Harvest. I remember a few years ago when Kent and I were talking about the whole vampire as a “symbol of the times” thing and that he told me I should write a story about it. I decided to play a joke on him and actually do it.</em><br />
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<em>Both Crimson Harvest and Mollohan’s first book, The Fairy Tale Parables: Classic Fairy Tales Point to God’s Love and Truth are available through booksellers like Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million. The electronic version of Crimson Harvest is available only through Amazon. Mollohan’s publisher, PublishAmerica, was suggested to him by another local author, Paula Blevins.</em>Thom Mollohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08526876529437443640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741277311555762361.post-92043105901935387112013-04-04T20:44:00.003-04:002013-07-02T11:16:48.797-04:00Review of Crimson Harvest on Single! Young Christian Woman Magazine of On My Own Now Ministires<a href="http://issuu.com/donnaleeschillinger/docs/single_young_christian_woman_mar13?mode=window&viewMode=singlePage" target="_blank">Review of Crimson Harvest in Single! Young Christian Woman published by One My Own Now Ministries</a><br />
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quick but exciting read merges fantasy and reality in the story of an average
teenager, her spiritual struggles and bloodthirsty monsters of an ancient
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Christian home, who is pressured by her friend Jillian to rebel against her
parents and her morals. When Heather finally breaks and agrees to sneak out to a
club with Jillian and her handsome and charming new friend Gage, she gets far
more than she bargained for. After witnessing Gage brutally attack (and possibly
murder) Jillian and her brother Rich, Heather flees home and seeks the help of
her parents and Uncle Kevin.</em></div>
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<em>Heather starts to see that there is a much
deeper evil at work as she tries to flee from Gage, who is out to kill her, and
save Jillian, who seems blinded by Gage's lies. In spite of a random attack on
her parents, Heather gains a deeper understanding of God's love and protection.
With her parents hospitalized, and still no idea of how to escape from Gage, it
seems to Heather that Gage has an evil and inhuman hand in everything that goes
on in her town. Wooed by a cry of help from Jillian, Heather is kidnapped by
some of Gage's followers, and even the police are involved. It is now up to
Uncle Kevin, himself not a Christian, and Officer Logan Sharptwig, seemingly the
only man on the police force who can be trusted, to save Heather before it's too
late.</em></div>
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<em>Heather's character transforms from a spiritually insecure girl who
just wants to have fun into a young woman after God's heart. Mollohan uses this
action-packed story to demonstrate the importance of an honest relationship
between Christian teens and their parents, having a strong church family, and
learning to rely on God's love. Mollohan's approach to Heather was realistic,
exposing the inner struggle for good decision-making, despite her relationship
with Christ.</em></div>
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<em>This story also reminds us that making mistakes doesn't mean an
end to our relationship with God. The narration of Heather's feelings of shame
for going to the club makes a realistic connection to the struggle of many teens
in similar situations. Even if cheesy at times, the story was involving and the
message moving. A great way to connect with a teen in the rebellious years, this
encouraging story with page-turning suspense is ultimately a message of God's
love.</em> </div>
Thom Mollohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08526876529437443640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741277311555762361.post-25705611320764853202013-04-01T11:16:00.001-04:002013-04-01T11:16:30.211-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">From Chapter 19</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“So . . . what do we do?” asked Heather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Uncle Kevin hesitated as if unsure of what to say or reluctant to say
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Look, Heather,” he ventured finally; “I’m here to save you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think that I can carry your friend
any further, especially if it means not getting you out of here safely.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Heather was silent a moment but then placed her hand as gently as she
could on her uncle’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I am so glad that you came to help me, Uncle Kevin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel that you are an answer to
prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m not the one who needs
saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jillian is.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She paused and then said, “And I think that
maybe you are, too.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Heather, I don’t know what you’re getting at,” he said heatedly, “but
I promised your mom that I would get you out of here and bring you home
safely.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“And I am so glad you did,” she answered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But what I’m trying to tell you is that Gage
can’t really hurt me . . . not what’s really me anyway.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I don’t understand.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I belong to Jesus,” she explained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Gage can’t hurt the part of me that lasts forever . . . my soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can’t even touch me himself because the
Lord has made me His own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can maybe
get one of his flunkies to hurt my body, but my soul belongs to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Jillian isn’t safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s been lied to by Gage, and she did some
bad things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s let him do something
to her to try to ruin her and make her like he is . . . but it isn’t working
out the way that he hoped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s not his
yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that she can still be
saved.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I’m sorry for her, Heather,” he answered. “But my commitment is to you
and your mom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m getting you out of
here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Uncle Kevin,” she persisted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
will give my life for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please help
me to help her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we can both carry
her.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her uncle was quiet, but then she
heard him sigh heavily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I’ll just carry her,” he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“It’s hard enough to move through the trees without the two of us trying
to . . . .”</span></div>
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