A few weeks ago Janet Folger's producer called to tell me the time had finally come for an interview. She <the producer> read the book over a year ago and has apparently been lobbying Janet all this time to get me on the show. I know this because I had the interview this afternoon, and at the beginning of each segment Janet said she doesn't have time to read fiction, she couldn't think of the last time she'd featured a fiction book on her show, etc., etc., but her producer had bugged her for a year about it. :p

I felt like I'd run a race by the time I hung up the phone and I have no idea how it turned out, but it was fun talking to someone so knowledgeable about a variety of difficult political issues facing Christians in America. I'd mention some plot line or other and Janet would have two or three related true stories on the tip of her tongue. I read her book, The Criminalization of Christianity, at the beginning of my book tour and it sounds like she's got enough material for a second edition if she has time to write one.

Hopefully I was able to convince her just a teeny little bit that fiction reaches a different segment of the population than her book or radio program, and is therefore a valid strategy for inspiring action and change...

The interview was taped, but I'll be sure to post when I know the date it will air.