About
Leif M. Wright is a publisher of a popular online newspaper, a journalist with more than 25 years of experience, a longtime ghost writer, a professional musician, a former pastor and an author of both fiction and non-fiction books.
He is winner of numerous Associated Press journalism awards and recipient of the prestigious Best of Gannett Award for an investigative series. He is an accomplished ghostwriter of dozens of books, most notably Morris Cerullo's autobiography, Son, Build Me An Army.
He lives on a ranch in Muskogee, Oklahoma with his wife, April, and three children. The family currently has four horses - one for each horseman - eight dogs and numerous other critters.
Description
<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;">Elisabeth was rude and selfish and demanding, and therefore had very few friends.<span> </span>When she sent out invitations to her birthday party, no one accepted.<span> </span>Her mother warned her that she needed to improve her manners and to try to get along with people.<span> </span>She told Elisabeth that she needed to use the magic word “Please”.<span> </span>So when Elisabeth went to school the next day, she thought of her mother’s advice, “What is the magic word?” and she started saying “Please” and also “Thank You”.<span> </span>She tried to become more thoughtful of others, and discovered that she was a much happier person.<span> </span>Imagine her pleasure when she returned home to find out that her new friends were all coming to her birthday party!</span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p>
Story Behind The Book
Minister of Justice is based in part on my real-life transformation from fundamentalist pastor to way more religiously liberal. It was a journey over a lot of existential bumpy dirt roads that exposed a lot of pain I had inflicted over the years with my tunnel-vision view of how the world worked. Of course, a lot of the book is also fiction (my brother is still alive and well), but Steve Samuelson's journey is largely my own.
