Anne Rice is turning from vampires to Jesus in her next book
called, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. The story tells the story
of Jesus Christ in his own words. The book will be available on November 1st of this year. An Associated Press article quotes a letter Anne Rice has written about her latest book:
"For over 10 years I've wanted to do this book -- Jesus in his own
words," Rice writes. "For five years, I've been obsessed with how to
do it, and for the last three years I've been consumed with nothing else."
"I'm not a priest," Rice also writes in the letter. "I can't be one.
I'll never be able to go to the altar of the Lord and say the words of
consecration at Mass, 'This is my body. This is my blood.' No, I can't
work that magnificent Eucharistic miracle. But in humility, I have
attempted something transformative which we writers dare to call a
miracle in the imperfect human idiom we possess. It's to bring Him
here in the form a story, and that story is Christ The Lord."
