Romance Without Sin

Absolutely. Most of the characters in all of my novels, for instance, would go to church on Sundays, although I don't necessarily describe the service. That's just because most of the people I know in

life go to church on Sundays, and faith is a very important aspect to our lives.

Sure, and yet in the little world I live in it's not that way at all. All of our friends go to church on Sunday.

Absolutely. For example, I have not--nor do I intend to write-- a book with adultery in it, just because I find there is no nobility in it, and I don't want to romanticize such a thing at all. Granted, my books do have characters engage in premarital relations, but usually I'm implying that this will be a long-term commitment, going into the future. The two are genuinely in love and they genuinely intend to be with each other forever. Granted it's still a sin, but granted I write love stories. There's not much I can do about these things.

But they absolutely come from my faith. I just am not comfortable writing about one-night stands, about people who do not attach any morality to an act of intimacy at all. I come from a long line of people who have been married for a long, long time. And then my wife comes from the same thing: her grandparents were married for 60 years, her parents have been married coming up on about 40 years.

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