Want to Write a Dynamite Novel?The secret to writing a dynamite novel is to first write a dynamite scene.
Because if you can write one terrific scene, you can write a hundred. And that's a novel.
This is a short book, with just one goal—to teach you the simple principles you can use right now to design a powerful scene before you write it.
If you've already written your novel, you can use these same principles to make each scene better.
About the BookHow to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method will give you the power tools you need to write scenes that move your reader's emotions.
You'll learn:
<ul>
<li>The one thing your reader most desperately wants. And why.</li>
<li>How to decide which character should have the point of view.</li>
<li>The 2 kinds of scenes designed to give your reader a powerful emotional experience—and how to know which to use.</li>
<li>5 ways to test that your lead character's goal in each scene is perfect.</li>
<li>How to end every scene so it leaves your reader wanting more.
</li> <li>Why dilemmas are good, and how to know when they're ruining your story.</li>
<li>4 ways to know that your character's decision will drive your story forward.</li> <li>How to know when a scene is broken—and how to fix it.</li>
</ul>

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing)

Humor & Entertainment

Ingermanson, Randy

Movies

Ingermanson Communications, Inc.

All your life, you dreamed about the City of God.
But you never thought you’d ever actually go there. 
Until now. 
Your name is Rivka Meyers, and you are a total misfit. 
You are a Messianic Jew, studying at UC Berkeley. Misfit. 
You are a woman getting your PhD in archaeology—a man’s field. Misfit. 
You are in Israel working on an archaeological dig, pretending to be someone you’re not. Misfit. 
Your Israeli co-worker on the dig tries to set you up with his cousin, Ari Kazan. Disaster. 
Because Ari likes you. And you haven’t told him you’re Messianic. 
Ari is a theoretical physicist who wrote some crazy paper on time travel. Somehow, an experimental physicist, Damien West, thought it was a good idea.
Damien came all the way from the US to try to build a wormhole to test Ari’s crazy theory. 
Damien is obsessed with safety, which seems a little weird. 
But he has a personal reason for wanting time travel to be real, and it’s a lot weird. 
Only he’s not telling anyone that reason. 
Damien wants to go back in time and kill the apostle Paul. 
Somehow, Damien gets the wormhole working, sort of.
Somehow, he tricks you into going through the wormhole, without telling you where you’re going, or when. 
Somehow, you find yourself in Jerusalem, AD 57, completely unprepared and completely bedazzled. This is where you always wanted to visit. It would be dumb to leave without looking around. But too late, you realize it’s even dumber to stay. 
Because you’re the worst possible misfit in the City of God. You didn’t come dressed for a place and time where women are required to cover their bodies. Where women don’t talk to men. Where women are property, not people. Where violating the rules could get you killed. 
Back in the lab, Damien isn’t worried about you. He packs his gun, sets a timer to shut down the wormhole, and walks through into ancient Jerusalem. If he calculated the dates right, he’ll be lining up the apostle Paul in his gunsights next Tuesday. 
And you can’t stop him, even if you figure out what he’s up to.
There’s a loose cannon in this picture.
Ari Kazan. 
The guy who has a weird, crazy, stupid crush on you.
The guy who’s mad at you for not telling him you’re a Messianic.
The guy who just found out Damien West has made a fool of him. 
What’s Ari going to do? About The BookTransgression is a time-travel suspense novel that mixes science, history, religion, romance, and suspense. It’s about learning to stand up for yourself, when you just want to be let alone. It’s about making hard decisions. It’s about asking whether life has meaning and whether God exists — and becoming a badass fighter for justice, even if you don’t have the answers. 
Transgression won the 2001 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction. 
Transgression will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous adventure through the filthy, bandit-ridden streets of first-century Jerusalem. 
Transgression is the first novel in the City of God series:
<ul>
<li>Book 1: Transgression (A.D. 57)</li>
<li>Book 2: Premonition (A.D. 57-62)</li>
<li>Book 3: Retribution (A.D. 62-66)</li>
</ul>

Transgression: A Time-Travel Suspense Novel (City of God)

Religion & Spirituality

Ingermanson, R. S.

Christian Books & Bibles

All your life, you dreamed about the City of God.
Now that you’re there, you want to go home. 
But you can’t.
Your name is Rivka Meyers, and you are a total misfit. 
You time-traveled from 21st century Jerusalem back to the year AD 57. Misfit. 
You’re a woman living in a culture where men buy their wives. Misfit. 
You married the man who followed you back in time, but you’re a Christian, and he’s Jewish. Misfit. 
You have a photographic memory, and that’s your curse. Because you read all the history books and you know what’s coming. Disaster for the City of God. 
There’s an old man in this city you love. He’s kind to everyone. He treats you like a human. Even though you’re a woman. And you know he’s going to die.
Because you read his story in the history books. He is James, the brother of Jesus of Nazareth. The leader of the Jesus Movement in Jerusalem. And in the year AD 62, he’s going to be murdered by the same family of priests who hounded Jesus to the cross.
This man James has five years to live. You know very well you can’t change the future. 
Your husband, Ari Kazan, is a physicist who tells you every day you can’t change the future.
But it’s your moral duty to change the future.
You are a stubborn cuss. Always have been. Always will be.
If there’s a way to get around the laws of physics, you’re going to find it.
Because you love James with your whole heart.
You would rather die than let him be murdered.
You may just get your wish.About The BookPremonition is a time-travel suspense novel that mixes science, history, religion, romance, and suspense. It’s about becoming the person you were meant to be. It’s about learning to accept harsh reality when you’d really rather quit and go home. It’s about being a badass fighter for justice, even when you’re fresh out of easy answers to hard questions.
Premonition won the 2004 Carol award for best Christian historical novel. 
Premonition will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous adventure through the filthy, bandit-ridden streets of first-century Jerusalem. 
Premonition is the second novel in the City of God series:
<ul>
<li>Book 1: Transgression (A.D. 57)</li>
<li>Book 2: Premonition (A.D. 57-62)</li>
<li>Book 3: Retribution (A.D. 62-66)</li>
</ul>

Premonition: A Time-Travel Suspense Novel (City of God)

All your life, you dreamed about the City of God.
By a crazy accident, you got stuck there, and now it’s home. 
You’re going to live and die in ancient Jerusalem. 
You have four years before all hell breaks loose on the City of God.
Your name is Rivka Meyers, and you are a total misfit. 
You time-traveled from 21st century Jerusalem back to the year AD 57. Misfit. 
You are a woman who knows the future, living in a culture where women are expected to shut up and obey. Misfit. 
You made the mistake of telling what you know, and now everyone calls you the witch woman. Misfit. 
You have a photographic memory, and that’s your curse. Because you read all the history books and you know what’s coming. Retribution for the City of God. 
You know that in April of the year 66 the Roman governor is going to ride into town and crucify 3000 people in one day. In retribution. For an insult.
Your husband, Ari Kazan, is a physicist who tells you every day you can’t change the future.
And you believe him. You’ve realized you can’t change the destiny of the City of God.
But you know one other thing. You’re part of the destiny of this city. What you do matters. If you can’t save the city, you can save your friends, the people you love.
There’s just one problem. 
How are you supposed to help people who think you’re a witch woman? 
People who don’t believe a word you say? 
People who think God is about to begin a war of liberation? 
People who hate you, because they know you’re fighting God?
How do you save people who don’t think they need saving?
How much are you willing to risk to save people who despise you?
Will you risk your life?
Your husband’s life? 
Your daughter’s life?About The BookRetribution is a time-travel suspense novel that mixes science, history, religion, romance, and adventure. It’s about making hard ethical choices between two terrible wrongs. It’s about digging deep to help people who won’t be helped. It’s about being a badass fighter for justice, even when you’re fresh out of easy answers to hard questions.
Retribution won the 2005 Carol award for best Christian historical novel.
Retribution will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous adventure through the filthy, bandit-ridden streets of first-century Jerusalem, right into the jaws of the catastrophic Jewish revolt that began in the year 66.
Retribution is the third novel in the City of God series:
<ul>
<li>Book 1: Transgression (A.D. 57)</li>
<li>Book 2: Premonition (A.D. 57-62)</li>
<li>Book 3: Retribution (A.D. 62-66)</li>
</ul>

Retribution: A Time-Travel Suspense Novel (City of God)

There's a Code Even the NSA Can't Crack But Dillon Richard can. Dillon is a straight-arrow genius with Asperger's syndrome. He's never told a lie. He's never been kissed. And he's never had a badass quantum computer for cracking codes. Until now. In just a few days, Dillon will finish the software to crack the "unbreakable" code that banks and terrorists use to protect their most valuable secrets. Everybody's going to want a piece of Dillon. The Mafia. The NSA. And his two beautiful co-workers, Keryn and Rachel. Who'll get him first? About the Book Double Vision is a hilarious geeky suspense novel about a guy who has no idea how attractive he is to women. In fact, he has no idea how women think at all. Dillon is terribly strait-laced, and he's a bit shocked when he sees that his sexy co-worker Rachel doesn't wear a bra. But he's in for a bigger surprise when Keryn shows him where she hid the quantum computer. Dillon is just a wee bit opinionated, and he can't say a word without offending somebody with his thoughts on science, religion, national security, and the burning question of whether the multiverse is real. Excerpt 1: The passenger door opened and a petite young woman sprang out. She had shoulder-length silky hair of a golden blond color, and she wore a garish pink-and-blue tie-dyed shirt that stretched tight across her chest and did not reach down to her navel. Her faded jeans had a hole in one knee and did not reach up to her navel. She wore an old-fashioned leather fanny pack low around her hips. Dillon thought she looked like one of those supermodels on the covers of magazines in the supermarket. For a second, he simply stared at her. Then he caught himself and looked down at the ground. A wave of dizziness washed over him and he thought for a moment that he was going to fall over. Excerpt 2: Keryn did not like the way the blonde was staring at Dillon. Ogling him. Which was what every woman did the first time they saw Dillon Richard. If any guy on the planet ever deserved the word gorgeous, it was him. And the amazing thing about Dillon was that he had no idea how he affected women. Click the book cover at the top of this page to read more.

Double Vision: A Quantum Suspense Novel

Nazareth has been cruel to my mother, more cruel than any village ever was. All the village says that my blood father is not the man who married my mother. They have shamed her on the matter all my life. Every woman asks which man of the village is my blood father. Every man scowls and says he was not the one my mother seduced. My mother will not tell who is my blood father. My mother will not speak on the matter. My mother bears her shame in silence. Some righteous man, a prophet, said a word over me when I was a babe in arms. He told how I will redeem Israel when I grow to be a man. Now I have grown to be a man, but I do not know how to redeem Israel. The scriptures do not explain the matter. My people say that the man who redeems Israel must take up the sword and throw off our enemy, Rome, which we call the Great Satan. My family says I must take up the sword. Only I am no man of the sword. I wish with all my heart to redeem Israel, but HaShem, the God of our fathers, must tell me how. Lately, there came a new prophet to Israel, who immerses for repentance at the river Jordan. I went to ask the prophet how I should redeem Israel. He said I am to smite the four Powers. I asked what are the four Powers. He could not say, but he said HaShem will reveal the matter to me. I wish HaShem will reveal the matter, only I am not a prophet. Not yet. But I will be. Here is what I know. Every hour of every day, I feel the Presence of HaShem. I do not know why I should feel the Presence always. My mother does not. My village does not. Even the prophet of HaShem does not. I think the Presence will teach me the way to redeem Israel. But I am afraid to redeem Israel. To redeem Israel is to leave my mother to the scorn of the village. The rage of the village. My mother begs and cries on me to make a justice for her. To make a justice on the village. I do not know how to make a justice on the village. I do not know how to redeem Israel. But HaShem will show me the way. I will learn how to be a prophet of HaShem. I will learn how to redeem Israel. I will learn how to make a justice for my mother. I will smite the first Power. Or I will die in the trying.

Son of Mary: A Tale of Jesus of Nazareth (Crown of Thorns)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

An Explosion On the Way to Mars 
Halfway to the Red Planet, an explosion leaves the four-member crew of the Ares 10 with only enough oxygen for one. Valkerie Jansen, the ship’s doctor, is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid -- and he's good at it. He’s worried that Valkerie is mentally unbalanced, possibly even dangerous. Which is just too bad, because Bob’s falling in love with her. Meanwhile, NASA is trying to figure out who should live and who should die, when there’s only enough oxygen for one. 
About the Book 
Oxygen is a Mars suspense novel that mixes science, religion, romance, and suspense. Oxygen won the 2002 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction. Oxygen will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous vacation to Mars in a stinking, cramped, failing spaceship. 
Excerpt 
Bob Kaganovski had shampoo in his eyes when the decompression alarm went off. He grabbed the suction hose and ran it frantically over his face and eyes. Footsteps pounded outside the shower. “Decompression!” shouted Josh Bennett, mission commander of the Ares 10. “Get to the EVA suits now! We’ve got about fifteen minutes.” Bob popped open the Velcroed shower door and grabbed a towel. Fear knotted his gut. Only fifteen minutes! He stepped out of the shower and swiped a towel across the soles of his feet, drying them just enough so he wouldn’t kill himself on the stairs. He ran through a corridor to the steep circular stairway that led down to Level 1 of the Habitation Module. The decompression alarm beeped once every two seconds. The interval was keyed to cabin pressure. When it got down to vacuum, the beeps would merge into one steady drone. If he wasn’t in his suit by then, he wouldn’t hear it. For one thing, sound wouldn’t travel in a vacuum. For another, he’d be dead.

Oxygen: A Science Fiction Suspense Novel

Olson, John.

The Fifth Man: A Science Fiction Suspense Novel

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