Steven Helmer

In this follow up to "Angels Don't Always Have Wings: A Sinner's Poems of Faith," Steven Helmer continues to express the things he learned in church and from his church family through poetry.The book includes a contribution by his 10-year-old daughter Azalea.

Lester Greene was the favorite to win the Emerald Springs' annual chili cook off and potentially sell his recipe to the Ma Kettle Canned Chili Company. However, when he suddenly drops dead from an apparent poisoning, it's up to Maxwell V. Diamond to figure out who did it and why.

Mike is the smartest student at North Southernbrook Elementary School. At least that's what he believes. So, when he gets an impossible-to-answer homework question one night, he does everything he can to solve it.Will he get the answer in time? Or, will he turn in his first incomplete assignment ever?The book is written by Steven Helmer (The Icky Sticky Mess on the Floor) and illustrated by his 9-year-old daughter, Azalea.

A young girl is supposed to be asleep but, when she investigates a strange tapping noise, ends up on an interstellar adventure instead.Will she get home before her parents find out?

Steve never thought of himself as an overly religious person and had rarely set foot inside of a church. However, after agreeing to attend a service following a visit to a church yard sale in 2007, Steve re-discovered his faith and he and his family have been part of the church's community ever since.The poems in this book were inspired both by what he has learned and by the people he has met since that fateful visit to that yard sale.

When Steve first met Cynthia back in 2000, he knew she was the woman for him and proposed to her just three months after their first date.Married to her since 2003, he has often used poetry as a way to express his feelings for his wife. Enclosed in this book is a collection of some of those poems. Some are sweet and some are silly. But, all of the them are sincere.