I’ve been asked before if the Nemo Dade Chronicles are “Christian Fiction”?

The answer: No, not at all.

Fantasy and Urban Fantasy have been fascinated by beings with incredibly long lives, who often have more than mortal abilities: vampires, werewolves, demons, angels, fae, etc. Like many of my colleagues, it was dynamic that I wanted to explore, but in a way that I could wrap my head around in terms of character archetype. I wanted to branch out into a lesser known direction.

There has never really been all that much available in cannon about the Nephilim, just a handful of scriptural footnotes. That left me with a lot of space to imagine. What would it be like to be part celestial and part human? How would that play out? There would seem to be potential for great good (ah ha! Superhero territory); only, with the human penchant to live with temptations, there are many opportunities to mess things up.

What is Nemo Dade about?

A lot of the Chronicles deal with the choices that characters make both for good and for ill, and how they face sometimes seemingly insurmountable odds. The stories are also about friendships and trust, as well as learning that it’s possible to change perspectives.

And well, there’s baggage, lots and lots of emotional baggage… and not just for Nemo.

It’s a group that has been pulled together into a team, and they are very different people, and I like the fact that while she’s very qualified, she’s not their leader, nor does she want to be. That provides and interesting dynamic to the mix. She’s lived a very long life, and uses humor in this incarnation to adjust to her awareness of that as best she can, which makes Nemo a bit goofy/kooky.

Though, once one has passed their first millennia, I’d say it’s allowed.