Welcome to NormNoble.com!

Now that I'm retired and can spend a good deal of my time writing, that's what I choose to do -- and the fruit of that labor is what you will discover here.

Sometime in the future, I plan to revise and re-release my non-fiction book called Advertising Your Church, a guidebook aimed at church pastors and business managers to help them better bring their churches’ messages to their communities. At the time of its publishing in 1989, it sold over 7,500 copies to churches throughout the country.

There is also a possibility that my publisher will be re-releasing my first novel, a suspense-adventure story that has been out-of-print for a while. Published in 2003, it's called In the Still of the Night and tells the tragic tale of a 747 in trouble over the North Pacific Ocean.

My second venture into the world of fiction stayed in the aerospace arena with a novel I called Prophet -- a socio-political thriller in a military aviation setting. This told the tale of a top-secret terrain-avoidance system that allowed the super-secret stealth aircraft to remain undetected during bombing runs; whose secret was uncovered by the Soviets; and the investigation that followed.

Then I shifted gears with my historical novel Changing of the Gods about a "scam" in 66 A.D. (yes, there were "scams" even then) that was published in 2006. I have long been a fan of historical novels, cutting my teeth on Kenneth Roberts’ novels (Arundel, Rabble in Arms, Northwest Passage, etc.) when I was a boy. I had visited Corinth, Greece on numerous occasions and was intrigued with the canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland. Its construction began in 66 A.D.; its completion was in 1893. I wondered why the 1,827 year holdup in construction and devised my own plot to explain it.

In 2008, my sequel to Changing of the Gods was published. Ever the Twins Shall Meet resumed the story twenty-two years later in and around Ephesus (modern day Turkey) when twin boys were separated at age three, only to reunite in unusual circumstances 18 years later. It tells how a young Roman prevails in his efforts to escape imprisonment, to remain free even though a wanted man, and to find a way to return to his family and solve the riddle that changed his life the day he was falsely arrested.

Now, three years later, I have just completed my fifth novel titled Stephanie Isn't Here. Set in the 2003 timeframe, it tells about a young high school science teacher wrongly accused of murder, found guilty, and sent to prison, awaiting execution. The plot harbors a long-standing fear of my own that I would be accused of doing something heinous and found guilty -- yet I was innocent. The challenge for me as the writer was determining how to free my protagonist from his solitary confinement cell.