Inspirational Research

By Jeffery J. Mounts                                                    

A Radical Change in Reading
When a majority of people walk in and around a library or a bookstore, they most likely look for something to bring the chills down their backs in the Horror-Science fiction area or take them into a world of the unknown in a fantasy novel.   We as that majority of people find a book to complete our thirst for entertainment of words, but what about novels with spiritual words and settings in inspirational novels?   What is inspirational fiction?   Is it the usage of words that leave the reader wordless? Or is it when the author sounds, as if they are lecturing? They both can be the definition of what inspirational fiction is all about.   It is a certain type of literature that authors use to tell their spiritual journeys through life into a fictionist character.   Inspirational fiction can leave a reader feeling different or having a radical change in the reader’s life. Inspirational fiction can be, but is mostly based on a Christian’s perspective.   One Christian perspective can write numerous books about the lives of others in everyday situations. That one perspective is Karen Kingsbury. Kingsbury thinks that inspirational fiction, better known as Christian fiction, is more powerful than fantasy, history, and horror-science fiction.  
On July 17, 1964, in Fairfax, Virginia, Karen Kingsbury was born to Theodore and Anne Kingsbury.   At a young age, Kingsbury showed her interest in writing when she began writing at the age of five.   Kingsbury wrote her first book, “The Horse”, in kindergarten with crayon and unlined paper.   Kingsbury showed great participation in English through her school years, she wrote for her elementary, middle and high school newspaper.   When she was in college, she wrote short articles in the Northridge Newspaper at California State University.   After getting her masters in English, she was married to Donald (last name confidential) in the year...