Tim Wright
My newest book, The Adventures of Toby Baxter: The River Elf, the Giant, and the Closet, grew out of three influences:
1) My love for fantasy adventure books. In some ways this is a fun-filled love letter to the genre and books like Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The Hobbit, and The Chronicles of Narnia (upon which I based the subtitle of my book).
2) My work with Dr. Michael Gurian (Saving our Sons; The Purpose of Boys; The Minds of Girls) on rites of passage. I took that work and turned it into an engaging story, hoping to impart, as all good fantasy adventures do, some good values and character qualities to think about.
3) Being a grandpa. My grandkids inspired me to write this story.
1) My love for fantasy adventure books. In some ways this is a fun-filled love letter to the genre and books like Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, The Hobbit, and The Chronicles of Narnia (upon which I based the subtitle of my book).
2) My work with Dr. Michael Gurian (Saving our Sons; The Purpose of Boys; The Minds of Girls) on rites of passage. I took that work and turned it into an engaging story, hoping to impart, as all good fantasy adventures do, some good values and character qualities to think about.
3) Being a grandpa. My grandkids inspired me to write this story.
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