Mr. Davis
I have been following your work for over eight years. I first found your book during a writers conference at my church, a day I will never forget, for that day I found the book that would change my life. I was still walking an unsteady path with the Lord but I had conflict in my heart, for my passion has always been reading but I only enjoy and love fantasy fiction, a path very few Christian writers have dared tread. “How do I follow the Lord and get to read the fiction that I love?”
I am deeply affected by every word I read, often allowing what I had read to affect my emotional and mental state. I was unsure of my path and willing to listen to the loudest voice or the clearest word. I remember walking along all the tables looking at all the books lining the authors’ tables, books everywhere! My heart was filled with joy at the sight.
But not one of the great authors’ books called to me. They did not fill that part I longed for. Then on one of the smaller tables, a display was laid out with your first fantasy novel from your DIOM series, I lifted one of the books, attracted by the wonderful cover. Raising Dragons? Dragons in a Christian church. Could it be? Could they really allow such a thing in a God fearing place?
I turned over the book and read the back cover. “Bonnie.” One of the main characters shared my name! I had found a book that literally called out my name! I gladly bought your book, and for four or five years, every year when the writers conference stopped at my church, I purchased a book, each one strengthening my faith, bringing me closer to the Lord through words of faith love and fantasy.
You helped me one year as I had desired to gain a set of your books for a pagan witch friend of mine, but I was too poor at the time. You allowed me to pay what I could and donated some of the books. I am glad to tell you that she is saved and a God-fearing woman, raising her own child as a God-fearing boy. I believe your books, as you hoped, laid a seed in her heart, so I thank you. She has meant the world to me and knowing that her heart is now filled with the Light of God has meant the world to me.
The writers conference found a new place to hold their conference every year, and as such I was unable to meet you again, and because of financial problems, I unable to buy your last books in your OOF series until recently. So as is my tradition when getting a new book in a series, I reread every book in the series, so I could pick up were I left off with the last book fresh in my mind.
I noticed something, though, as I read from book one all the way through book eight. My attitude and love towards the people I love and care about steadily grew more gentle. Your books affected my way of communicating with people. They helped spur a desire to be a woman after God’s own heart, to live my life as the fictional Bonnie, a pure faith-filled woman of God, ready to help someone else even at her own cost, to live life completely free of fear, and to let life happen. As long as I serve God, no mater what I do, will be pleasing in his love-filled eyes.
So I thank you, great author, for all the time you put into writing a wonderful work of art. Your words made a difference in my life and my friend’s life, and I know because of them I will make a difference in someone else’s life. Blessing and again thank you. Congratulations on ten years of writing masterpieces.
Your forever fan,
Bonnie