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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 DOIM 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

Dear Mr. Davis, We are a home schooling family and my oldest daughter, a voracious reader, begged me for months to read your books because she enjoyed them so much. I finally read the first one in the “Dragons in our Midst” series, and then blasted through the next 8. I must confess there were a few late nights in there, but I enjoyed them so much.

The books have provided alot of wonderful discussions on such a wide variety of Christian topics and the Lord has spoken to my heart on the struggles of being in the “refiner’s fire” and the necessity of daily putting on the “armour of God”. Hmmm… I never thought I would enjoy my teenage daughters’ fiction/fantasy books about dragons so much and it sure has been fun to talk with my kids in “Second Eden” lingo about some very deep issues. Thank you!

Since the next book won’t be out until summer, I think we will reread these and turn them into a book study and see what other “themes” (gold nuggets) we can dig up. Any suggestions? Have you ever thought about doing a book club/reader’s guide of some kind? These were great books ~ Thanks for providing my family a new way of connecting and for all of the “teachable moments” Billy and Bonnie, Walter and Ashely, and company have provided. PS Is Sir Barlow really gone… or was he captured in a candlestone and will he return for the final battle?

I don’t know if you’ll ever get to read this, and I don’t mean to be one of those annoying fans(: I’ve read all of your oracles of fire books your dragons in our midst books and your children of the bard book, they have changed my life tremendously, I’ve enjoyed them all and they went so deep for me. I can’t explain it. I’ve cried and laughed and smiled and just couldn’t put them down! I can’t wait for your next book to come out! Btw don’t let Lauren die! Keep writing and I will keep reading! God bless you! Jeremiah 29:11 🙂

Dear Mr. Davis,

Hi! My name is Hailey, I’m 12 years old and I absolutely love your books! I’ve read the Dragons in Our Midst books, the Oracles of Fire books and the first book in your new series (Children of the Bard) Song of the Ovulum. I started to read the first book in the Dragons in our Midst series, Raising Dragons, on December 25^th, 2011 and finished all of the 2 series including Song of the Ovulum, on February 7^th, 2012.  I was completely hooked on your books and got caught reading in bed on many occasions! My friend suggested them to me and his mom told my mom about them and I guess she got them for me. I got the first book, Raising Dragons on Christmas day and that was the blessing of my Christmas that year! I absolutely can not wait for the other 3 books in the Children of the Bard series!

I can not get over the amazing series that I have read and need new books to read! Do you have any suggestions for books I can read written by you or any other Christian author? If so, please write back if you can! Thank you so much and I am praying that God will bless you as you continue to write books and continue to serve Christ with your amazing talent!

Hi Mr. Davis,

Dear Mr. Davis,

My name is Tiani, I am fourteen and I live in Victoria, Australia.

I am growing up in a Christian home and God has always been in my life, I always knew he was there, but there is a difference between knowing and experiencing. On the day of my ninth birthday I was baptized (off my own decision), I don’t know if that’s when it started, but I began, at some point, to find it hard to talk to God, like there was a barrier in the way, I continued to go to church and praise God and I sent up many a prayer for that wall to disappear.

Mr. Davis, your books gave me that extra push I needed to keep looking for God. I never gave up, I knew what I wanted; I wanted God’s fire in my heart and that wall down. I joined a youth group two years ago and that has helped incredibly, but before that, my mum found your books. I read Eye of the Oracle first, I was so amazed at the faith Saphira found and I wanted it! I eagerly began to read Raising Dragons and again I instantly wanted the faith, devotion and courage Bonnie (and later; Billy, Walter and Ashley) had after all she had been through she (and the others) stuck to God, and I love that! I moved on through the series and as I did my faith grew and grew.

Then I moved onto Enoch’s Ghost. The Hell you described scared me (for many reasons, one I shall tell you soon)! Of course I had known Hell was a terrible place, but I had never really read anything to do with hell (I had seen a documentary by a man that claimed he had been to hell but I wasn’t sure whether his experience was a lie or not, either way it was different to your book). I had thought of hell countless times and knew it was the last place I ever wanted to be but I knew I would never be there. Usually I stuck to thinking of the wonders that God does and made. Space amazes me, I wonder how an astronomer can come home every day from work and still say there is no god (Louie Giglio has an amazing documentary called Indescribable, which is the film of a talk he did in America or Canada, it is about Space and it is amazing). Anyway, back to Enoch’s ghost, I have a friend who has not found Christ and I am scared for her, and so I continued to talk to her about God. Months after I finished your book I had a dream about her, my friend. In the dream she died in a Tornado of fire, I don’t know whether it meant anything but I was terrified and am still scared for her.

I soon finished Oracles of fire and my faith had grown miles! But I still had a problem, that wall was still there. Two years ago I joined a Youth group that most of my friends go to and I can’t get enough of it! I fought on against that wall. Just a couple of months ago that wall was knocked down on my Youth group’s camp, and the peaceful fire I had so wanted entered my heart like a warm, calming wave from the sea (Literally).

Mr. Davis, without your books I never would have gotten so far, so soon. I have read Dragons in our Midst, Oracles of fire, Song of the Ovulum and I Know why the Angels Dance! God has blessed so many through you!

Please keep writing!

I am so thankful to you, my youth leaders and God. God was doing amazing things that Saturday at our Youth camp. At school we wrote poetry for an English assignment, most of the poems I wrote were from God or Jesus’ point of view. I read over them regularly and I enjoy reading them. I could send you one if you would like?

Have you heard the songs; The Lost are Found and With Everything by Hillsong live? They are amazing worship song’s.
My friend I spoke about earlier, I still do not know whether she is a Christian, but I think she is yet to give her life to Christ, and I know that that day is near! She has come to Youth often, at our invitations. I can only hope that she will accept the saviour.

Well, I suppose I have said what I felt I needed to say. My wall has been knocked aside and Jehovah’s fire entered my heart and filled me with a warm peace. I pray that EVERYONE may know that peace.

Again, thank you SO much!
God bless you and your family
Love from Tiani P.