Welcome to my stop on the NBtM virtual book tour for
God's Intervention: A Second Chance for Humankind by Kenneth B. Little and Helen Davies. This book tour was organized by
Goddess Fish Promotions. On my stop, I have an excerpt from the book as well as a guest post from one of the authors. There's also the tour wide giveaway for a chance to win a $15 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. Be sure to
visit the other stops on the tour for more content. Enjoy!
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Title: God's Intervention: A Second Chance for HumankindAuthors: Kenneth B. Little & Helen Davies
Publication Date: April 29th 2022
Print Length: 698 pages
Genre: Literary Fiction
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Humans are on the brink of disaster...
In the United States, President Samuel Cummings has taken the reins of a deeply divided country at a time when nuclear, chemical, biological and cyberthreats loom.
Things look bleak until God's emissary Sarah, a composite of 40 million female souls from Heaven, arrives on Earth with the message that God is intervening in human affairs to save the human race from itself. God, she explains, is the life force of the universe, the only intelligent form of energy. People who help others grow their own life force will join God in Heaven. However, many humans are more inclined toward hatred, intolerance and greed and so God is intervening to course-correct them.
The first thing Sarah does is to announce God's edict of 'thou shalt not kill' to the world. Anyone who tries to kill another person—or who enables someone to do so—will die instead. As commander-in-chief, Cummings must call back his military troops or risk his life. He must then deal with both the fallout and benefits of the dissolution of America's military-industrial complex.
Sarah's mission is to establish a new world order that is kinder, better and united. As she guides the world through this evolution, President Cummings begins to notice a depth in his own soul that makes him both a better man and a better leader.
Sarah remains on Earth for one year to help the world come together, and leaves behind a legacy of hope—a second chance for humankind.
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EXCERPT:
Immediately on alert, and with as much bravado as he could muster, he stuttered, “What in the hell are you doing here . . . ?” He punched a button on his desk and yelped, “Security!” as loudly as he could, expecting his personal bodyguard, Don Taylor, to rush into the room and usher this intruder out posthaste . . . but Don didn’t come.
Instead, the woman continued to stand in front of him as bright as a satellite in space. Glowing, it seemed.
“You must leave immediately!” he shouted at her, but she appeared unperturbed by his anxiety and did not move. “Now!” he yelled again, this time with more fervor as he pointed toward the door.
When she did not react, he slowly glanced around the room and noted an unnatural stillness. The usual electronic sounds that were part and parcel of day-to-day life—like lights buzzing and clocks ticking—were absent. It was like he was in a vacuum of some sort. He started to realize that he was alone with this woman and that no one was going to save him.
Don’t panic, he told himself, and he calmed down a little. He glanced quickly at her and had the uncomfortable sensation that she was flitting around the room. He looked away, at the door behind her, still hoping Taylor would bust through and usher her out, but nothing happened.
Finally, he managed to muster the words, “Where did you come from . . . ?” and then his tongue tied itself into a knot, and further speech failed him as he felt the full power of her presence.
This was no ordinary woman. She seemed to suck the oxygen from the room, leaving him light-headed, and oddly light-hearted as well. As he felt himself being somehow drawn to her, he could hear his heart beating as if in anticipation of something delightful, though his rational mind told him it was probably just due to surprise and shock. He fought to hide his odd mix of feelings from her by reminding himself that she was an intruder. The truth of the matter, he told himself sternly, is that this woman breached White House security in order to threaten me in the Oval Office.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kenneth B. Little is a 72-year-old retired business executive who is unhappy about how the state of the world has deteriorated during his lifetime.
The human population has ballooned from one billion to nearly eight billion, and people have moved off the land into massive cities where they have no ability to survive on their own. Instead, we rely on massive electrical grids energized by power plants largely burning fossil fuel; we’ve developed industrial complexes and global transportation systems that also rely on fossil fuel; we’ve created corporate farms that promote animal cruelty and destroy the soil by overusing chemicals; we’ve decimated our ocean marine life by dragging the ocean floor; we’ve created plastics that pollute land, rivers, lakes and oceans; and, of course, we’ve created nuclear, chemical, biological and cyber weapons that are now in the hands of unstable countries and terrorist organizations.
In short, we are racing headlong into a series of mass extinction events.
At seventy-two, Ken felt motivated to try to create a better world for his grandchildren by writing a fiction book full of non-fiction ideas that could potentially correct many of the world’s problems. Realizing that the only two avenues toward this were themes of divine intervention or mass extinction, he chose divine intervention as the solution, creating a scenario where God could step in to save humankind.
Ken wrote his initial manuscript during the Covid-19 lockdown, a 70,000-word overview that his wife told him read like a textbook. Deciding to see professional help, he engaged Tellwell Publishing to do a critical edit, which was performed by Tellwell editor Helen Davies.
Helen was intrigued by the storyline but, like Ken’s wife, felt it needed a lot of work to develop the characters and make it more engaging. With Tellwell’s blessing, Ken then contracted Helen to do just that. Thus began a most unusual and successful collaboration!
Says Ken:
Helen and I are completely different people. She is a writer, musician, and farmer. I am the grumpy old man who watches European business news when I get up at 3:00 a.m. We live as far apart as possible in Canada. She lives in Victoria on the West Coast, and I live in Fredericton on the East Coast. We have never met, yet we talked for nearly two hours on our first phone conversation. Usually, I never talk for more than five minutes with anybody on the phone. What unites us is that we share a passion for this story, and for the idea of a better, more united world.
During the writing process, Helen routinely sent me edited chapters, one at a time, always with the tagline, “I hope you like it.” I like it very much; the story I wrote that sounded like a textbook now brings tears to my eyes.
God’s Intervention: A Second Chance for Humankind is a story of hope.
We hope you like it.
Kenneth B. Little and Helen Davies
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GUEST POST BY KENNETH B. LITTLE:
Humankind is on the Brink of Extinction.
Weapons of mass destruction have proliferated. We now face a smorgasbord of nuclear, chemical, biological and cyber weaponry and it is only a matter of time until a strike and counterstrikes are triggered.
Humans are at the top of the food chain on Earth and after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution we have become very proficient at forming tribes to help us secure and protect resources at the expense of other tribes.
Any group of people that comes together to pursue a common interest is a tribe. Villages are tribes. Nation states are tribes. Religions are tribes. Companies are tribes.
People in groups are capable of atrocities that they would never commit as individuals. Tribes tend to enable hatred, intolerance and greed and can be extremely dangerous.
If we don’t soon make radical changes to unite humankind, the world faces a series of wars and a dystopian future.
I Can’t Save Us, But Maybe You Can.
I am a 72 year old man. I am too old to solve any of the problems. Besides, I would lack credibility as the savior of the human race because my generation and male leaders in particular have caused many of the problems we now face.
We need young champions and a lot more female leaders to move us forward.
Fortunately, covid-19 came along and gave me a prolonged period with nothing else to do but write a book outlining the things somebody else needs to do if we are to survive.
Now, if I can just get people to read my book …
Divine Intervention Or Go It Alone?
Making humans at one with their species is a very tall order!
I decided to call upon divine intervention because it allowed me the flexibility to select a most extraordinary emissary named Sarah whose supernatural abilities make the book a much more interesting read. (I need to confess that my wife still thought it read like a text book until I engaged co-author Helen Davies to bring Sarah and the other characters in the book to life. Helen and I have never met and we are polar opposites but the message of our book brought us together. We hope you like it.)
The True Nature of God
The religions that have grown out of past divine interventions have caused many of the deadliest wars experienced by humankind.
I had to refine the concept of “God” to unite the world’s existing religions and hopefully reconcile God and science.
I am not a religious person but I do believe there is a force inside each of us that is capable of great compassion and giving. When we help a person in need we feel warm inside like the feeling we get when we bite into a piece of homemade fudge, only the feeling lasts a lifetime.
I have chosen to call this the universal life force and in the book, this is “intelligent” form of energy is the essence of “God”.
Sarah communicates the message of God’s intervention directly to every person on Earth. She also clarifies the true nature of God and addresses questions like:
- How can I grow the life force within me?
- What is my role in the universe?
- What happens to my life force when I die?
The Protagonist
The protagonist in the book is Samuel Cummings, President of the United States.
God’s intervention totally disrupts the socio-economic balance of the world leaving heads of state pre-occupied with their own survival and the survival of their economies and social order.
Sarah helps Samuel survive but quickly moves to helping him grow as a human being so he can help move humankind forward to a world united and at peace.
Sarah as a Role Model
Absent divine intervention, course correcting humankind will require enormous effort but may be possible. I am inspired by the efforts of Greta Thunberg who led a grass roots movement to call out world leaders on the issue of fossil fuels and climate change.
If 40 million women from every corner of the Earth came together as one and called out world leaders on the issue of uniting humankind …
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GIVEAWAY:
Kenneth B. Little and Helen Davies will be awarding a $15 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter.
(All the Ups and Downs is not responsible for this giveaway, its entries, or the prize. Goddess Fish Promotions and the authors assume all responsibility over this giveaway.)
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