by Sam Rawlins | May 29, 2019
This is the question I always ask myself when I start a new project. What elements do I want to include in my new book? At the very beginning when I started writing my new book. ‘Young Lincoln of New Salem,’ I knew that there would be at least three major elements...
by Sam Rawlins | May 27, 2019
In writing my new book Young Lincoln of New Salem, I wanted readers to get to know the Lincoln I had gotten to know from many years of research, feeling the emotions he felt during those trying years of his young manhood. Along the rugged Illinois frontier, Abraham...
by Sam Rawlins | May 25, 2019
I wanted to write something that would have elements of faith and patriotism. These elements became interwoven with strong spiritual beliefs, already inside me, enabling me to craft a novel that would resonate with many readers. It is through A Return to Meadow Wood...
by Sam Rawlins | May 23, 2019
Most people seem to know more about how he died, rather than how he lived. My new book is more about how he lived and became the man we all know. From a young man of twenty-two who could barely write his own name when he came to New Salem, what events motivated and...
by Sam Rawlins | May 21, 2019
Impacting the world with something positive and uplifting through my writing is part of my spiritual walk through life. In my view, part of my mission in my writing is to help others reach their full potential in their own relationships with God. Life can be so much...
