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Homelanders to Get Single Volume Edition

December 12, 2011 News

Publisher Thomas Nelson will issue a single volume edition of the complete Homelanders series next year.  The volume will include all four books in Andrew’s thriller series for young adults: The Last Thing I Remember, The Long Way Home, The Truth of the Matter and The Final Hour.  The tetralogy follows teenager Charlie West’s action-packed [...]

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Christianity Today Reviews “Final Hour”

September 26, 2011 Books

The insightful John Wilson includes The Final Hour in his “Wilson’s Bookmarks” column in Christianity Today.  Wilson writes: “This is Young Adult fiction… but the unadulterated intelligence of a superb suspense novelist is very much in evidence throughout.” It’s online now and you can find it here.

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Between The Covers “Final Hour” Interview

September 5, 2011 Books

This is always one of my favorite interviews – with NRO’s John Miller, who can both read and think, not always guaranteed in an interviewer.  This one’s about The Final Hour.  Here’s the pull quote: “The Left… convinces people that you can lie reality into submission, that if you don’t mention the war… the war [...]

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Final Hour’s Cool UK Cover

July 19, 2011 Books

As it notes in the news section, this is the official publication day of The Final Hour – though it’s been available at Amazon for a while. I’ve already posted the American cover several times.  But I’ve also been delighted with the covers the Homelanders series have received in Great Britain.  The folks at Headline [...]

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More Early Reads of Final Hour

July 12, 2011 Books

Although The Final Hour hasn’t officially been published yet, I can’t help but notice it’s already available on Amazon (hit the link and buy it.  Now!).  As I noted last week, it’s also getting some early reviews on blogs around the web.  Here are some more  reactions to the conclusion of my Homelanders series of [...]

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Advance Readings of The Final Hour

July 5, 2011 Books

If you look over at the news section on your left (my right from inside the computer), you’ll see that after a long, long time, the movie folks are making some progress with the Homelanders series.  This is welcome news, especially as the series conclusion, The Final Hour, is going to be published in just [...]

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Writers at Work on Homelanders Film

July 5, 2011 News

After many delays, a team of writers has set to work on turning Andrew’s Homelanders series into a film.  Miles Millar and Al Gough – whose credits include Smallville on TV and the films Shanghai Noon, Spider-Man 2 and I Am Number Four – have developed the story and will oversee the script written by [...]

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The Final Hour, Chapter One

June 23, 2011 Books

Here’s the opening chapter of my new novel The Final Hour, due out July 19th.  It’s the last book in the four-book Homelanders series. THE FINAL HOUR Chapter One Abingdon   Most people have to die to get to hell.  I took a shortcut. I was in Abingdon State Prison.  Locked away for a murder [...]

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Homelanders Movie Update, Sort Of

June 13, 2011 Books

A lot of people have been writing to ask me about the status of the Homelanders movie.  My series of thriller novels for young adults was optioned last year by Summit Entertainment, the folks who brought you Twilight and Hurt Locker, to be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura of Di Bonaventura Pictures, makers of Salt [...]

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