G P Taylor

Flies In Below The Radar

Speaking to potential writers, G P Taylor, author of Shadowmancer, Wormwood, Tersias, The Curse Of Salamander Street and others, urged them to follow his example and to write a book that has credibility in the secular market; 'Fly in below the radar. A book can be secular in notion but have the backbone of faith, the golden thread, as C S Lewis called it. You might be the next JK Rowling - God might have planted that seed in you that will change the face of the world.

'Be a storyteller. Write the beginning, write the end, work and then work towards the end. Writing changes lives. I want to see people saved for Jesus and to put the Christian message into the marketplace. It is our mission to infiltrate the darkness and to let them know that there is a God out there who loves us and His name is Jesus.'

G P Taylor was speaking at the Good Read, Spring Harvest's new initiative to encourage Christians to read more. People packed into the venues to meet best-selling authors and to quiz them about their books, while the afternoon workshops proved popular with both children and adults. Others taking part included Coral
Rumble, the poet, who led a series of children's workshops: Jeff Lucas and Rob Lacey, and John Musgrave.

Three publishers took part in the Good Read - Authentic, IVP and Lion Hudson.