Phillip T. Stephens
Working on final revisions to Seeing Jesus, the only novel I ever wrote at the suggestion of an agent. Based on a conversation about metaphors and the mind, she suggested I write a novel along the lines of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World.
I started along one line based on an old friend, the late poet Albert Huffstickler, but somehow it evolved into the story of Sara Love an alienated eighth grader whose parents moved her to a small Texas town where she doesn't fit in.
Her only friend is an old man named Mr. Fisher who uses parables to help her learn to adjust to becoming a teenager. The only problem is, nobody believes Mr. Fisher is real.
I started along one line based on an old friend, the late poet Albert Huffstickler, but somehow it evolved into the story of Sara Love an alienated eighth grader whose parents moved her to a small Texas town where she doesn't fit in.
Her only friend is an old man named Mr. Fisher who uses parables to help her learn to adjust to becoming a teenager. The only problem is, nobody believes Mr. Fisher is real.
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