Dear Sir Davis,
You don’t know me, but I’m one of your readers. I love your books, especially the Echoes from the Edge. (And I haven’t read The Seventh Door yet, but I’m working on it.)
I wanted to tell you how much I love your characters. Billy and Walters are some of my favorites because they seem like me. Normal, I guess. And these are the characters that I love. The ones I cheer for whenever I read books.
Now, I know people complain about some characters (especially Bonnie) being too perfect, and I will say I can’t relate to her as well as others, but I believe such characters have a role to play in fiction as well. We, being young people, long to have roll models, and Bonnie is that for me. She’s the model that I look up to. She’s the one who models what Christ-likeness looks like in action.
Sometimes I feel like I couldn’t ever live up to the standard she sets, but I suppose that’s a good thing. It turns me back to God and the fact that I’m a work in progress. It gives me something to work toward…and with Christ all things are possible.
So thanks for your books and your characters. They’re all awesome, and you’ve inspired me to write fiction of my own with the hopes of publishing myself. Please keep pushing young adults to higher levels as you’ve done for me.
God Bless.
Sincerely,
Hannah Y.