Today I am interviewing LDS fiction author Julie Coulter Bellon, who only recently came on the scene but has already created a splash. Julie, thank you for taking the time to give Families.com this exclusive interview. You’re an LDS fiction author with three novels under your belt. What are their names, and can you give us a synopsis on each of them?
My first novel, “Through Love’s Trials,” is about an attorney, Kenneth King, whose boss asks him to deliver a disk to his ex-wife in Utah. Unfortunately, she doesn’t want to have anything to do with the disk and has a little girl to think about. She doesn’t know, though, that she’s already been targeted. Through a series of events Kenneth realizes that the disk links a client to a terrorist attack which is about to happen on U.S. soil. It ends up being a race against time to foil the attack without any of the characters getting killed themselves.
My second novel, “On the Edge,” is set in Africa and Greece and it is about a Canadian Security Intelligence Service officer who finds a biological weapon hidden in a private hospital in Africa and realizes that it’s headed for America through the Canadian border. He is trying to find out who’s behind it, and it certainly looks like people he has trusted are in on the plot. The girl he cares for deeply seems to be hiding something, his bosses back home are dealing with a mole, who can he trust?
My third novel, “Time Will Tell,” is set in London and Turkey and it’s about the oil leases in the Caspian sea that come up for sale and a terrorist organization is going after them. British, American, and Canadian agents team up to foil the plan because anyone who owns those oil leases will control a large piece of the world’s energy market which has the potential to influence the U.S. stock market. A woman named Ashton Carlson gets caught up in the intrigue when
she is in the wrong place at the wrong time. She’s trying to move on with her life after losing her missionary son in a car accident, and now it seems like she may lose her own life as well. Only time will tell . . .
You’ve also written a ground-breaking book about the Scouting program and its connection to the Duty to God Award. Can you tell us a little more about this book, and how it came about?
Well, I have five sons, so we do a lot of scouting at our house. Being an Eagle Scout and earning the Duty to God award was very important to us since every young man has been asked to strive to earn those awards, but I was at a loss as to where to start. There was no training session for parents of new Scouts, and no one seemed to be able to answer my questions. After a while, I put together a system for keeping track of both of the requirements for these awards and then added all my tips and hints for parents who are in the same boat I was when I started. I even cross-referenced which Scouting requirements also meet Duty to God requirements so you can kill two birds with one stone so to speak. This book, which is called “Be Prepared–A Parent’s Guide to Boy Scouts and the Duty to God Award–What You Should Know” is sort of like the little training session I wish I would have had at the beginning of my sons’ Scouting experience and I hope it helps parents and boys to earn those awards. I firmly believe the Duty to God program and rank of Eagle Scout makes the boy a stronger person and helps him develop attributes that will make a difference when he is a husband and a father.
Thank you, Julie! We’ll continue this interview tomorrow. Be sure to check back in to read more about author Julie Coulter Bellon.
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