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This is our second newsletter of the New Year. We are excited to hear from many who have already read and enjoyed The Joshua Covenant. Many of you have echoed what you said last year about Redeeming Liberty: that the new book is our best book yet. That is encouraging to us as we keep trying to raise the bar.

We have some interesting updates and a contest, so please keep reading:

Early in his career, David (like Leroy Jethro Gibbs) was a Special Agent with the Naval Investigative Service. Both David and Gibbs went on to supervise teams of Special Agents, Gibbs for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and David for Drug Enforcement Administration. This video describes it best.

Because David worked for what is now NCIS, many are eager for his opinion about the TV show—NCIS. Take heart, your questions are being answered in our new blog. In Two ExFeds News Wrap, we comment each Wednesday about the previous night’s episode of NCIS. The 200th episode airs on February 7, featuring many people from Gibbs’ past. Between now and February 6, 2012, visit our blog and leave a comment as to who you’d like to see reappear on that show. On February 8th, we will have a drawing from the comments and give away three copies of The Joshua Covenant.

If you want to get our critique of each week’s episode of NCIS via email, click here for the blog, and then click on the subscription bar at the top of the right hand border.

We also comment on news events, as we did in this recent posting:

Pirates detained by the “real” NCIS
Here is the proof that NCIS, the most watched show on CBS, is a real agency. Too many viewers think it is a fictional creation for their entertainment. In real life, NCIS Special Agents are “afloat,” an in house term indicating the agent is at sea, usually with an aircraft carrier group. Yesterday, (Friday, January 6, 2012) while Iran’s leadership was threatening the U.S. to keep the carrier USS John C. Stennis out of the Straight of Hormuz, the Defense Department announced the Stennis group had rescued thirteen Iranian fishermen, whose Iranian flagged vessel was seized by pirates in the Arabian Sea. The arrest resulted when an SH-60S Seahawk helicopter (you’ve seen Tony and Ziva on them) flew from the deck of the guided-missile destroyer, USS Kidd and detected a small skiff tied to the Iranian fishing vessel, emitting an emergency beacon. The Kidd is one of the ships escorting the USS Stennis. The announcement about the thirteen recued fishermen and the fifteen arrested pirates was made by Special Agent Josh Schminky, the real version of the fictional Tony DiNozzo aboard the USS Kidd. On some days chance circumstances occur that reflect positively on our military and the NCIS, and therefore, on whomever is our president. Even Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the rescue and arrests a “humanitarian and positive” act. Was it a “chance circumstance”, or is it possible the current Administration has enlisted the writers of NCIS to improve our international image? Will we see something similar on a future episode of NCIS, or was what we just witnessed an episode pulled from the shelf?

Our earlier newsletter this month was an invitation to join us and other Christian Fiction authors at The Shack B&B, for a weekend in May. If you missed it, you can see the details in this video.

We’ll appear at the following events during the next several months and it would be great to meet you if we’re in your area. Check our events page later for new additions.

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