Interview with Tom Mach

Published 2014-03-30.
Why did you write poetry books when you are a such a successful novelist?
With poetry I am free to get into my soul and use my words artistically to convey the deep feelings I have for people, nature, and God.
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Persisence, Then Peace
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Tom's Travels
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Unearthing the True Cross
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Dante, digging in Israel, uses a map he found to unearth fragments of petrified wood. Those artifacts cure a deaf and mute orphan girl and a blind Muslim boy. Such miracles persuade some Muslims to convert. Dante is followed to America by someone intent on destroying these artifacts. Years later, the pope will publicly announce these as the True Cross when a terrorist is about to assassinate him.
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Price: Free! Words: 16,950. Language: English. Published: January 16, 2022 . Categories: Screenplays » Comedy
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A boy in a coma visits heaven. At 11 he says goodbye to a girl he loves. At 16 he needs for forgive his aunt. At 17 he tries to mend a broken heart with a lady. He learns Jesus’ love through a Christian artist. His father refuses to forgive his sister-in-law until too late. About to marry his childhood sweetheart he has call for priesthood. But what will he do later when he learns she is pregnant?
Two Christmas Miracles
Price: Free! Words: 4,210. Language: English. Published: November 20, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Christian » Contemporary
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The Museum Muse
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In The Museum Muse the award-winning author will convince you to regard museums as places where we take our history and chop it into bits so that we can examine the fragments. In doing so—and with the help of a sympathetic museum muse—we hopefully, will finally understand who we were, who we are now, and where we are going. Mach’s unusual book is a search for that muse.
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A parish priest has been murdered and Detective Matt Gunnison feels it's an open-and-shut case when a woman is arrested who has motive, opportunity, DNA, and an eyewitness. But did she REALLY do it? While trying to untangle this complex case, he is spurned by the womnan he loves and pursued by a woman who loves him. How will it end?
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