Beyond Prejudice Now Available for Pre-order!

Beyond Prejudice is now available for pre-order from http://www.Amazon.com and http://www.BarnesandNoble.com!  The official release date is July 5.  To find the book, simply visit the site of one of these booksellers and type in Beyond Prejudice, Raschelle Wurzer, or the ISBN # 978-1-935986-11-9 into the search box.  You can also order directly from your favorite bookseller.

This week and next week, Sharlene MacLaren is featuring Beyond Prejudice on her blog at http://sharlenemaclaren.blogspot.com .  She endorsed the novel, and also has a new release coming out July 5.  You can find out more at www.sharlenemaclaren.com .

Don’t forget to visit Diane Estrella’s blog at http://www.dianeestrella.com on Friday, June 24 to read her official review of the book.  Enter for a chance to win a copy of Beyond Prejudice July 11 when she features an author interview.  Take a look at her rating of the novel on http://www.goodreads.com.

Award-winning author, Margaret Daley, will feature Beyond Prejudice on her blog at http://margaretdaley.blogspot.com the week of July 4.

After you’ve read Beyond Prejudice, let me know if you’d like to see a sequel or if you’d be more interested in reading another stand-alone title.  You can contact me at raschellewurzer@juno.com.  My goal as an author is to #1 please God with my writing and #2 please you as my readers.

For now, though, happy reading!

Character Diaries

David Mitsuko, Male Protagonist

Entry #3

     I never dreamed I’d feel like the animals I saw caged in at the zoo when I was a young boy.  At least not here in America.  Maybe one could expect adverse reactions such as these to a missionary on the field, as I may, should God permit it, but not here where things are supposed to be safe and “civilized” for ordinary citizens, even if they do look like the enemy. 

     Barbed wire fences and guard towers should be reserved for crazed prisoners of war, if they should be used to incarcerate human beings at all.  But for women, children, the sick, and the elderly?  May God forbid it to ever happen again.

     Being a Christian and a strong young man, I thought I was exempt from despair.  How wrong I was!  A few months of interment confinement and my spirits waned with the hope I once had of marrying Elizabeth.  She seemed so far away, even if we were both in California.  It would have been just as well, had I been in Japan, for we couldn’t hope to be together at a time like this.  I told her she couldn’t come with us to the internment camp, and when I got here I realized why.  However, my love for her still made me long for her to be here, though it was a selfish wish.  She was much better off not being classified as “one of us”.

     The claim of being a strong Christian young man not only deteriorated with despair, but also with the common weakness of every man, should he be wise enough to admit it.  Joy’s beauty wasn’t just physical.  She looked at the world and life through the beauty she found in everything, and that made me hope again.  A hope for the future—with her.