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I’m inspired by Bryan Davis, the man who wrote the Raising Dragons and Oracles of Fire series. His books helped me really understand hope and faith. He is a Christian fantasy writer who is able to put faith, dragons, adventure, and love together in one inspiring book while a battle against good and evil, as old as time itself, rages on. I feel this wonderful, intelligent man has helped me find God everywhere in my life and helped me learn to hope and pray when conflict arises.

When I received the first book of the series, I thought it was going to be a boring story that my mom bought me so I would learn more about God and faith in a way I wouldn’t be able to completely understand, like the bible, so I didn’t want to read it. One day I needed an A.R, or accelerated reader, book and started to read it and couldn’t put the book down! I practically stopped watching TV, accept after I finished a book. I would always lay down on my futon, with a blanket and the door shut and read for hours with no stopping, not even for meals. I was up till 1:30 in the morning reading his books until my mom made me go to bed because it was a school night, or morning I should say. That was during Spring Break. When I read his books, I feel like I’m in the story, right in the middle of the battle against good and evil.

I now have all eight of Bryan Davis’s books, which I now am able to read in a matter of a day or so. I am now very sad because I finished the last book of the series and am having a hard time finding a book with the same amazing qualities as Bryan Davis’s books. Since I enjoyed Bryan Davis’s books so much, I have decided to get my ten year old stepbrother to start the series as well. I don’t think he goes to church enough, if at all, and I think it would be a great way to get God in his life through Bryan Davis’s books. He would get bored at church, because of his age, anyway so I think this would be a much more fun and exciting way.

I have decided to reread the series during Summer Break till I memorize every word. I hope whoever reads this will check out his website and read his books.

I wish you would continue the series or even make your books into movies, but I know I may be asking to much. I hoping in Heaven there are an endless amount of books that either continue your series or books that are equally as good.

Your biggest and #1 fan

Natasha M.

I really enjoy reading your books, they really help when I am struggling with something that is similair to one of their problems. I have read the Dragons in our Midst series at lest 5 times!, You are a blessing to all the teens and parents out there struggling with relationships and their faith! Keep up the good work!

I’ve read all your books up to date and i’m really excited about your new series. I read them as soon as I can when they come out and I’ve even gotten my parents and many of my friends to read them. One problem reading books like yours is if I’ve read them all the way up to date, I have to wait for the next one to come out. It’s agonizing! 🙂

I don’t have any big story about something wrong happening in my family or me moving to another country or a life changing accident and then your books helped me cope. I am a normal bookworm living in a town where there are book stores where I buy amazing books. The amazing thing about these books is that I didn’t need a huge problem for these books to change my life, they were God given and they changed my life even though it didn’t seem like I needed it. Now, if a book can do that, it’s a book worth reading.

thanks,
Kara

Dear Mr. Davis,

First of all I just want to tell you that your books are amazing; I can tell that they are annointed by God. These books have helped me with things like relying on God for everything and trusting him even when things get rough. I constantly find myself identifying with Bonnie and Billy (naturally Bonnie more). The Friendship they have with the professor is very much like many friendships I have with adults. One in particular is my voice and piano teacher Kim Trisel I guess you could say she is my “Professor Hamilton”. She always seems to know exactly what to do in tough situations and she is always exactly what i need her to be, whether it is a stern teacher or a kind comforter. I can always trust her to help me see God in all situations.

For instance; I was recently in Edmond, Oklahoma visiting my Grandma and Grandpa Deese (while there i bought the first book in the series and finished it) and found out that my grandma has cancer. I was very distressed and the first thing I decided I needed to do was call Kim who calmed me down and prayed with me. I told you this story for two reasons; the first is because I wanted to demonstrate Kim’s “professor-like” qualities and also to show that reading these books at the time kept my focus on God. This series has a special place in my heart because I live in West Virginia; I was born in Oklahoma (where my grandma lives) but I’ve lived here almost my whole life. They make me feel like this poverty stricken wet state is special after all, and they give me pride for my home. Therefore, leading up to the reason I am emailing you.

If by a miracle of God these books get made into a movie i would be more than happy to be involved somehow, I know this is an odd thing to randomly email an author about, however, i feel like these books really need to be made into movies, they would be a marvelous message to our hopeless world and it’s about time the Christians started pumping out some amazing movies to combat the terrible crap they are putting in movie theaters everyday. ( I’m sure that’s a run-on sentence, sorry) I started thinking about it when I read the comments in the front of the book by fans and saw that a kid thought they should be movies. I’ve been thinking about it ever since, when I read The Candlestone I couldn’t help thinking of myself playing Bonnie when she is singing in the candlestone simply because I sing when I am afraid i typically sing “I Love You Lord” or another song called “I Will Exalt You,Lord” I feel led to type the words so here goes…..

Chorus I will exalt you, Lord
In the beauty of your holiness oh
I will exalt you, Lord
In the beauty of your holiness

I lift up my voice with all of my heart
For it is my choice to make the praise start
For only you alone are high upon the throne

Chorus

Your glory comes down and the demons all flee
Your healing blood speaks and the captives are free
and all of us are changed by the glory of your name

Chorus

I felt like this song is very similar in message to your books and I just want you to consider trying to get this made into a movie, even if I can’t be involved I would certainly love to see these books on screne. Please inform me if anything comes up, and I would be delighted to get a reply with your opinion.

Thank you for reading and God Bless You !!!!
” I can do all things through him who strengthens me”- Phillipians 4:13

I was reading Enoch’s Ghost and i got to the part when Elam was at the gate to get into the Bridgelands and he was talking to the gate keeper. When the gate keeper said to him that many theologians were looking at studying god and not obeying him. That part hit me pretty hard. I know that i have not been studying god as much as i should but it made me realize that even though i have been trying to study him more i have also been somewhat ignoring him. Today i was thinking more about that and i realized that i keep asking god to say something to me but then i just keep talking and ignore what he would tell me. i know realize that i need to be more like listener and talk less and listen more. well back to the obeying god. it hit me hard and i understand know that i don’t just need to study god but i also need to obey him.

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

Dear Mr. Davis,

You probably don’t remember me, but I emailed you two years ago when I was thirteen thanking you for writing these books.  Well, here I am again at fifteen two years later… THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Last night I finished reading The Bones Of Makaidos.  I couldn’t bear to put it down, so I stayed up till 12 reading.  Many times authors don’t finish their stories satisfactorily, you on the other hand ended the books with the best possible conclusion!  I was crying through almost the whole thing.

I am baffled by your ability to form and develop the characters so well!  I have tried writing stories, but they never seem to flow.  I have some good ideas, but not the ability to write them.  Now, it doesn’t take a dragon genius like Ashley to figure out that you are a good writer.  Can you give me one or two tips for things to keep in mind when you are writing?

Ok, now for questions about the story.

At the end, in the epilogue, Enoch talked about Billy and Bonnie’s kids (!!!!!!!!!) having adventures.  Are you planning on starting another series?  I hope so, but I understand that it’s a lot of work!

How did you come up with the story line?  When you were writing Raising Dragons, did you know you were going to write the Oracles of Fire series?

Ok, I promise that this is the last question.  When Bonnie became an Oracle of Fire like Sapphira, I noticed that she didn’t have the same fire powers.  Was she a sort of honorary Oracle without the flame throwing?

Again, thank you so much for writing these books.  I LOVE them!!!  Fictional books generally have a more profound effect on me than other non-fictional books.  These books came out at the perfect time.  Growing up at almost the same time as the characters made reading the story enthralling.  These have helped, taught, strengthened, inspired, and amazed me.  You don’t know how many times I have thanked God that you wrote these.  Know that I will be praying for you always.

Your books have inspired myself and my friend Kelsea.  We both do a lot of drawing (kind of like Billy) and we have both designed pictures of Acacia with her hands flaming, and Bonnie with her wings shown in their full glory also holding a sword.  If you get the idea that we’re obsessed, you’d be correct.

Although I am sad that the series is over, the bookstores (Family Christian Bookstore in particular) are probably happy about it.  Every time a new book would come out, I would call up every day for the next month (no joke) asking if they had the book in stock yet. They would sell so quickly it was hard to get a copy.

I hope God blesses you as much as He has blessed me through your books.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Kara S.

P.S. I’m Kara’s older sister Laura. I just wanted to let you know that your books have inspired me in my life and they have strengthened my faith and walk with God. In The Candlestone, different things that Bonnie wrote in her journal really encouraged me. All of your books have been inspiring to me. I want to be a might warrior in God’s army. And even though the characters aren’t real. They have shown me that nothing is impossible with God. I can fight evil dragons with God by my side. Thank you so much for writing these books!

Dear Mr Bryan,

I am simply welling up with emotion. I am halfway through the Bones of Makaidos, and as I am reading of the remarkable  accounts of faith, I have on more than one occasion found my mouth hanging wide open. I am finding my self singing Amazing Grace with Ashley, weeping for Sapphira and Bonnie, and raging at the thoughts of a Vacant stabbing Listener, the sweet little girl that never did anything.

I think of how powerful one’s faith in God must be to create such an astonishing, heartwarming legacy. You are one of my greatest role models, and your books cleanse my heart of any doubt and any impurities. They are more than literature.

These books are spiritual motivators, my Companions that guide me when I am unsure what to decide.

I would very much like to meet you, and I am wondering when you are coming to Maryland next.

Lastly, I need to know if you are going to continue writing adolescent books. I would be simply overjoyed if you continued the DIOM and Oracles of Fire series, but since  I doubt this will happen, I just wanted you to know how much of an impact you have made on my life.

Your fellow believer in Jehovah Yasha,

Michael S.

I can’t thank you as much as I would.. In Bones of Makaidos, I cried so much, that I think I ran out of tears to cry anymore. I laughed until my sides were sore. And above all, I got so close to God. I can feel him here with me now. And I read those two links on your newsletter. It was so… I don’t know what to call it but I was shouting and freaking out about it! My dad came in and just stared as I read on. It was so uplifting and just what I needed. I drew two pictures from your stories. I drew Bonnie and Billy holding hands with the Excalibur on Billy’s back. And I wrote on it, “Forever and Ever Bonnie, I’ll always be your friend… … Til Death Do us part.”

I was so happy when they got married. And even happier when Sapphira and Elam finally reunited! I felt like I was part of them, Like I wanted to be with one another, if that makes any sense. It was just  a dream come true. And I tackled the Excalibur. I made a really good sketch of it, I hope I can send it in soon. Thank you Mr. Davis, I can’t thank you enough. My friend says thank you too. She started reading it when she saw me read Enoch’s Ghost. Thank you!!! Thank You!! Thank You!!!!