It takes Jack a week of work to paint one illustration. Jack’s process, however, is not cost-effective for a tight publishing budget. So some thirty years ago, when Jack Stockman, the artist who illustrated the first two books of the Kingdom Tales trilogy, began scheming and dreaming with me of collaborating on his first fully illustrated book project and my first venture into creative writing, it was pure joy to see how Jack’s mind interpreted my stories. The screenwriter was a friend who had talked me into letting her submit this entry, and I rather reluctantly made my way to New Harmony, Indiana where I realized for the first time in my life I was with a whole group of people and we were all speaking the same language (artist-ese). I can remember the first time I was invited to attend a two-week laboratory where one of my books was being turned into a film project.
I am enough of an artist that I love working with other artists. Not only do all ages-children, teens (college kids) and adults love them, but many somehow when used by skilled hands, in many lives, the power of the Enemy (the Enchanter) is defeated.īecome a Backer by going here. Perhaps you can also see why we are working so hard (and bothering you all with notices) to get these books back into print. They are written to reach the child in age and the child within. That’s why we say that the Kingdom Tales Trilogy is written for children of all ages. God touched her soul when the King entered the world of the carnival in your story-even if I had trouble making sound effects like fireworks-BLA-CHEW-AH!ĭid you notice the age of this writer and the clients he was helping? They are all adults.
Her idea of God and mine were very different. She eventually developed a fantasy world of her own. Doubletalk seemed all too familiar, but it was good to know that the King knew about such things.Ĭhris lived a life of terror and isolation. She identified with many of the characters but none more than the girl in the pig pen. Enclosed is a drawing that Mary E.-one survivor-drew about story time at my office. Your moving stories provide a deeply stirring way to reach this need. Now, reading stories may not seem like your vision of psychotherapy but since I encounter many cases of multi-personality disorder, it is necessary to do quite a bit of re-parenting and teaching. One of the ways I have found to reach into their shattered lives is to read to them out of your books. I am a psychologist working with Satanic abuse victims most of whom were raised in multi-generational cults. Your books Tales of the Kingdom and Tales of the Resistance have meant a great deal to me and the people I help.
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I weep when I receive letters like this, typed on professional stationery: I’m dying to know what happens with Amanda and Hero!-so please hurry and write another one! Well, I gotta go! I just want you to know what you’re doing in my point of view is really going to benefit the Kingdom! Keep up the good work!ĭid you get the fact that Shadd (who now has his own adult novel circulating with an agent) was in his teens when he wrote this? I’ve read your second book! (Tales of the Resistance, which isn’t really your second book!) It’s gotta be one of the best books I’ve ever read! I really want to encourage you guys to write a third! The concepts and principles as well as the excitement and adventure make it fantastic, but I could of expected that when two geniuses like you get together! Right now I’m on a plane over Utah writing this letter after just finishing reading your book. It is a joy to receive letters like this one, hand- written by close friends’ son when he was in his early teens:
Sincerely, Calvin.ĭid you get the fact that Calvin is seven? I like it because it has a lot of action.
My favorite book is Tales of the Resistance. It is a joy to receive letters like this one, written on lined school tablet paper where the envelope is addressed with a pencil:
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