Q: Let me start with asking you to tell us a little bit about yourself.  
A.  I live in North Mississippi, known as the Hill Country (as opposed to the Delta). In 2001 I was busy writing my great novel when God tapped me to work in the abstinence program in Mississippi, where I co-wrote an abstinence curriculum and presented it to students all over Mississippi. During this time, I had not one fiction thought. Not one. Then one day