{"id":1039,"date":"2017-07-16T12:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/?post_type=jetpack-testimonial&#038;p=1039"},"modified":"2017-07-17T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:47:09","slug":"kara-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-testimonial","link":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/testimonial\/kara-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara S. &#8211; He has blessed me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Davis,<\/p>\n<p>You probably don&#8217;t remember me, but I emailed you two years ago when I was thirteen thanking you for writing these books.\u00a0 Well, here I am again at fifteen two years later&#8230; THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Last night I finished reading <em>The Bones Of Makaidos.<\/em>\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t bear to put it down, so I stayed up till 12 reading.\u00a0 Many times authors don&#8217;t finish their stories satisfactorily, you on the other hand ended the books with the best possible conclusion!\u00a0 I was crying through almost the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>I am baffled by your ability to\u00a0form and develop\u00a0the characters so well!\u00a0 I have tried writing stories, but they never seem to flow.\u00a0 I have some good ideas, but not the ability to write them. \u00a0Now, it doesn&#8217;t take a dragon genius like Ashley to figure out that you are a good writer.\u00a0 Can you give me one or two tips for things to keep in mind when you are writing?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, now for questions\u00a0about the story.<\/p>\n<p>At the end, in the epilogue,\u00a0Enoch talked about Billy and Bonnie&#8217;s kids (!!!!!!!!!) having adventures.\u00a0 Are you planning on starting another series?\u00a0 I hope so, but I understand that it&#8217;s a lot of work!<\/p>\n<p>How did you come up with the story line?\u00a0 When you were writing <em>Raising Dragons,<\/em> did you know you were going to write the <em>Oracles of Fire<\/em> series?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I promise that this is the last question.\u00a0 When Bonnie became an Oracle of Fire like Sapphira, I noticed that she didn&#8217;t have the same fire powers.\u00a0 Was she a sort of honorary Oracle without the flame throwing?<\/p>\n<p>Again, thank you so much for writing these books.\u00a0 I LOVE them!!!\u00a0 Fictional books generally have a more profound\u00a0effect on me than other non-fictional\u00a0books.\u00a0\u00a0These books came out at\u00a0the perfect time.\u00a0 Growing up at almost the same time as the characters made reading the story enthralling.\u00a0 These have helped, taught, strengthened, inspired, and amazed me.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t know how many times I have thanked God that you wrote these.\u00a0 Know that I will be praying for you always.<\/p>\n<p>Your books have inspired myself and my friend Kelsea.\u00a0 We both do a lot of drawing (kind of\u00a0like 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.\u00a0 If you get the idea that we&#8217;re obsessed, you&#8217;d be\u00a0correct.<\/p>\n<p>Although I am sad that the series is over, the bookstores (Family Christian Bookstore in particular) are probably happy about it.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>I hope God blesses you as much as He has blessed me through your books.<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Kara S.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;m Kara&#8217;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 <em>The Candlestone, <\/em>different things that Bonnie wrote\u00a0in her\u00a0journal really encouraged me. All of your books have been\u00a0inspiring to me. I want to be a might warrior in God&#8217;s army. And even though the characters aren&#8217;t real. They have shown me that nothing is impossible with God. I can\u00a0fight evil dragons with God by my\u00a0side.\u00a0Thank you so much for writing these books!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Davis, You probably don&#8217;t remember me, but I emailed you two years ago when I was thirteen thanking you for writing these books.\u00a0 Well, here I am again at fifteen two years later&#8230; THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! Last night I finished reading The Bones Of Makaidos.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t bear to put it down, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1039","jetpack-testimonial","type-jetpack-testimonial","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-testimonial"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-testimonial\/1039\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theauthorschair.com\/shopping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}