In writing The Last Publishers series I had three goals. The first goal was to entertain with drama and romance that will intrigue readers.

The second goal is my passion. It’s what provoked me to start writing and keeps me going. I want to share with readers my burden and dream of reaching the world with the gospel. It’s my hope that others will catch a vision for missions.

The third goal is to educate my audience about survival. I don’t have any super-knowledge that bad things are coming, but I do have common sense. Observation and common sense are enough to tell me that bad things are coming. I desire to learn all I can and teach it through my stories, enabling my readers to become better equipped to survive when bad times come.

In order to teach these things, I first had to learn them myself.

I spent a lot of hours talking to experts in many fields. These experts come in all shapes and sizes. They are young men who play around in their garage with hydrogen fuel cells built with mason jars, old farmers who have grown gardens from heirloom seeds for over 50 years, a pig farmer who knows a lot about life, a chemist, Bible theologians and of course, I spend a lot of time on the net trying to figure out how to clean water, heal weird diseases, political issues that tie in with Bible prophecy and anything else that happens to involve my characters.

Sometimes all this research evolves into survival web sites put together by one of my main researchers. You can learn some of these survival things at www.survivalscoop.blogspot.com, www.survivalscoop.com and www.farmerjohnny.com.