A conversation with Jerry Jenkins - S10.E5
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🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jerry Jenkins is the best-selling author of the Left Behind series and more than 200 other books. In this conversation with host Warren Smith, he talks about his career, his writing process, and his manual for writers, Writing For The Soul. He also talks about his seemingly unlikely friendship with Stephen King, and what it's like being Dallas Jenkins' dad.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my |
| 0:04.0 | conversation with the man who may be the best-selling author |
| 0:08.0 | of Christian books in history, Jerry Jenkins. |
| 0:12.0 | He shares some of his writing secrets in a new book |
| 0:16.0 | called Writing for the Soul. |
| 0:20.0 | For me, writing is obedience. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm following a called a full-time Christian work, |
| 0:26.0 | so once I've written the book, I've obeyed. |
| 0:29.0 | The best-selling part of it, or the great royalties, or the reviews, |
| 0:33.0 | I don't have any control over that anyway. |
| 0:35.0 | That's up to the marketplace. |
| 0:37.0 | And so my goal is not all those perfectly things. |
| 0:41.0 | My goal is to lose to me success as obedience. |
| 0:45.0 | You might think that Jerry Jenkins needs no introduction |
| 0:49.0 | to the evangelical world. |
| 0:51.0 | After all, his name has appeared on the cover of more than 200 books. |
| 0:56.0 | Books that have sold more than 72 million copies. |
| 1:01.0 | The left behind books, which he wrote with Dr. Tim Lahey, |
| 1:05.0 | became a global phenomenon. |
| 1:08.0 | Twenty-one of his books have been on the New York Times |
| 1:11.0 | Vest Sutter list, with seven of them debuting at number one. |
| 1:16.0 | But Jerry Jenkins was no overnight success. |
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