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JUDGING ATHENA is Live!

02 Friday May 2025

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The wait is over! She’s available in Kindle, paperback, and hardback. Please use one of the following links to purchase Judging Athena:

Green Altar Books (Scroll down a bit for hardcover ordering and preview info!)

Amazon

Ingram

***** Publisher Press Release:

JUDGING ATHENA
by Perrin Lovett

JUDGING ATHENA HAS BEEN CALLED “brilliant” and “a beautiful portrayal of the relation of man and woman at the highest level.”

Athena Naonikis is an amazingly accomplished and extraordinarily beautiful young woman.

Despite her successes, she has never found amour. Her lack of romance is shared by Josh Williams, a handsome, young sweetheart. They meet and bond over their mutual life circumstances, outlooks, and humble piety. And they fall in love. En route to marriage, Josh discovers Athena has a secret identity, one that is perhaps unique in all of history and which will determine the outcome of their love and matrimony.

Judging Athena is an exciting foray into innocent, pure, and productive love. It is also a clarion call to return to the traditions of marriage, large families, and genteel society.

Perrin Lovett, a Christian traditionalist, novelist, and internationally syndicated columnist and essayist, does two unique and critical things with Judging Athena. Using a novel series of metaphors, he forges an exemplary story of genuine Christian romance, with love, children, and joint salvation. The circumstances of the distinctive plot and plot devices also expound several related areas of apologetics all aimed at glorifying God’s Creation and propelling men and women towards general salvation through Christ.

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We could not have been more surprised when Mr. Lovett, the author of the The Subsitute, a novel with a very tough protagonist, Tom Ironsides (described as one of the “most dangerous paramilitary officers in modern clandestine history” and “a deadly warrior, possessed of keen intelligence, determined to defend civilization” ), told us of this romance novel he had written.

Lovett related that as he took one of his nightly walks, the idea came to him all at once. The book was finished in just over three weeks! If you are a writer, you know this is a rare occurance.

We love it. I know it is not our standard fare, but it might be a nice gift for a young man or lady. Of course, a book of this calibre would be suited for any age, but 13 to 113 is seems to be just about right. We believe readers of all ages would find the book equally intriguing and equally moving…

We are in uncharted territory with this kind of fiction, but we believe it is worthy of your attention. It has an incredible story line and the “twist” (which separates this book from other books of this genre) blew us away! We think it will blow you away too!

Like the previous title,  Judging Athena is available in hardback, paperback, and digital editions. You can buy the paperback and digital edition from Shotwell Direct. You can get all three formats at AMAZON.

A preview of this most unique book can be found HERE.

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I’ll have more to say about the book soon, so go ahead and purchase six to twenty copies of each format! Yes, the Twist does set it apart. Everything Paul said about ATHENA is correct – except there is a modicum of action in it. Tom Ironsides is tough, no doubt about it. But sweet, humble Josh takes down an adversary beyond anything Tom ever faced. And Tom, you, and nobody else ever met a chick quite like Athena.

PS: That other release is Dr. James Kibler’s new poetry book, Beyond the Stone!

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Uma Sobrecapa no Brasil

21 Monday Apr 2025

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Many thanks again to Raphael and the Nova Resistencia gang for promoting ATHENA to the Portuguese-reading audience! Obrigado!

Porque Homens Deveriam Ler Ficção

Para concluir, recomendo alguns romances aleatórios para a estimada consideração de meus leitores aqui. Em primeiro lugar, há a menção, novamente autorreferencial, de The Substitute. Depois, há obras semelhantes, do falecido Gonzalo Lira. Em seguida, temos The Ways of the Dead, de Neely Tucker. Depois disso, estou me divertindo muito com The Lightkeeper, de Sherry Shenoda, um fantástico conto de ficção cristã que possui uma qualidade literária apurada e incomum. Por fim, e mais uma vez uma menção autorreferencial, há o Judging Athena (Julgando Atena), que será publicado em breve, ficção cristã diferente de qualquer outra e totalmente diferente da minha literatura de costume.

Judging Athena é uma exposição e defesa da beleza do casamento e dos benefícios que ele promove para a salvação. Acredite ou não, apesar de ser meu trabalho, não há nenhum xingamento, luxúria e polêmicas exacerbadas nele. Há um pouco de ação turbulenta, em parte de natureza relacionada às instâncias mencionadas acima. No entanto, quando essas poucas cenas aparecerem, elas serão bem-vindas pelo leitor e se desenvolverão, divinamente inspiradas, em uma direção diferente da minha compulsão habitual. A história de amor em si, tão envolvente quanto inocente, é uma singularidade excelente. Em breve, meus amigos.

We’ll have to look hard at a Portuguese translation!

Happy Saint Valentine’s Night

14 Friday Feb 2025

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I almost let this one slide. Apologies. Happy day, ladies, lovers, and friends.

There is an extra sweet Valentine’s scene in JUDGING ATHENA. You’ll enjoy it along with the rest. I ponder putting up a few paragraphs, but at this point, I think I need permission first. Maybe I’ll get to that this weekend.

Why are you still here?! Go be romantic and whatnot!

A Christian Romance Novel

05 Wednesday Feb 2025

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I’ve been given the green light for a soft announcement about one of my most important projects ever.

JUDGING ATHENA

(Not the cover. Rose is AI art made by me with Canva.)

Who is Athena? How is she judged? Why? And by who? JUDGING ATHENA is a Christian romance novel unlike anything you’ve read before and utterly unlike anything you’ve read from me. It is my favorite of all my written works ever. You’ll meet the lovely lady soon, courtesy of Green Altar Books!

A little advance praise for ATHENA:

“ATHENA is brilliant … a beautiful portrayal of the relation of man and woman at the highest level.” -Dr. Clyde Wilson, Dean of Southern history, author of Calhoun: A Statesman for the 21st Century and so many good books.

“The ending blew me away! I’ve never read a romance that was also religious and profound, sweet, and also promoting holiness. And the “secret” was very original – I have never seen or thought of a concept quite like that.” -Anne Wilson Smith, author of Charlottesville Untold.

“Fantastic … the best thing you’ve ever written.” -Paul C. Graham, author of Nonsense on Stilts.

I’d love to say more, but we’re under hard development, working on the “real” cover and preparing the Advance Review Copies / physical proofs. While I’ve been okayed to mention it, I can’t divulge too many details. It’s too soon to estimate when the book will be available for sale, so I’ll just say “soon”. I’m told we’ll have e-books, paperbacks, and a first for me – hardbacks! She’ll be roughly 330 pages of innocent, pure romance coupled with salvation-oriented apologetics. The plot device, the “secret” Anne mentioned, is utterly unique. I think you’ll like love it!

More directly. -P

A Few Things…

02 Sunday Feb 2025

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Howdy, blog loyalists,

One may recall that long ago, this place was a [dot]com. Then I grew lazy, pirates stole mah domain, and we became a lowly [dot]me. After a ten-year wait, I have reconquered the [dot]com! It links back here for now, as does the address for my new … AUTHOR WEBSITE! That site, while technically “live”, is currently under construction: Coming soon and you’ll read all about it here first.

For now http://www.perrinlovett.com = http://www.perrinlovett.me. The new duality (or something else?) has caused a spike in the otherwise sad and anemic traffic around here over the past few days.

I was about to announce something else. Something BIG. In fact, I was going to do it on Friday, but Mr. Publisher Man told me to hold off on amateur pronouncements as officialdom looms large and imminent. Friends, I have a new novel coming soon. It’s my first Christian romance work, and it’s something else. It is unlike any such book you’ve read before and utterly unlike anything you’ve ever read by me. The wait will be worth it.

Let’s see… There’s also this: I now have a (slowly developing) Telegram channel:

https://t.me/perrinlovettbooks

I’ll add more, and add a permanent link here, when I figure out how it works. Please feel free to join now, just don’t expect too much for a short while. I may at some point add a presence at Dzen or VK or something similar, but I had no plans for anything on “X”, Facebot, or any other mainstream site. Unless, that is, I get an agent and the agent forcibly sets something up and runs it. (I’m loosely, listlessly agent shopping – mainly for foreign and film rights – for what that’s worth.)

That’ll do for now, and I am dying to discuss the new book. It’s already been described as “brilliant … a beautiful portrayal,” “…profound, sweet, and also promoting holiness,” and “Fantastic … the best thing you’ve ever written.” She is not from around here.

Happy Sunday,

Perrin