{"id":825,"date":"2015-05-22T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-05-22T08:19:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:19:48","slug":"roots-and-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/archives\/825","title":{"rendered":"ROOTS AND BRANCHES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roots<\/a><\/p>\n

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ANNOUNCING THE JUNE 1 RELEASE OF MY NEW BOOK!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Roots and Branches<\/em> traces the image of the tree throughout\u00a0the fiction of G. K. Chesterton, interpreting the underlying message of his religious convictions through biography and literary analysis. This book introduces the uninitiated to a classic British author, allows students of Chesterton to mine his enigmatic work for metaphysical connotation, and encourages current-day writers to build symbolism into their own stories.<\/p>\n

So if you’ve ever wondered what good ole GKC might have meant with his rather abstruse fiction, you’ll enjoy reading\u00a0Roots and Branches<\/em>. If you’ve only vaguely heard about him\u00a0(maybe watched one of his Father Brown mysteries on BBC), Roots and Branches<\/em>\u00a0is a good intro. If you, like me, are a writer looking to enrich your own fiction with symbolism (the reason I chose GKC as a research subject in the first place), this is the book for you!<\/p>\n

BACKSTORY: I was minding my own business and working on my current novel last fall when, out of the blue, I got a strange email from a man asking for more info on\u00a0an article I’d written about a novel\u00a0he was reading (The Flying Inn<\/em>). He introduced himself as a charter member of the Central Florida American Chesterton Society (the ACS has something like 85 chapters throughout the States, with some international presence as well as a quarterly magazine,\u00a0Gilbert<\/em>). I answered his questions and was in turn answered by . . . silence. Three weeks later he contacted me again with his true motivation: He was a small publisher interested in my graduate research at Briercrest (2001) and would like to do business with me.<\/p>\n

Voila!<\/em> Today I formally present the results of my new alliance with Wayne Stahre of The Habitation of Chimham Publishing.<\/p>\n

Isn’t the cover lovely? My sister, Lorenda Harder<\/strong>, created the pen-and-ink sketch, with\u00a0her daughter Averil<\/strong> assisting\u00a0on the technical side of things. The publisher scored a foreword by Dale Alquis<\/strong>t, president of the ACS, and several other Chesterton scholars weigh in as well with endorsements (among them\u00a0Bruce Hindmarsh<\/strong> of Regent, mega-blogger\u00a0Brandon Vogt,<\/strong>\u00a0and GKC expert\u00a0John\u00a0<\/strong>Coates<\/b>).<\/p>\n

In a few days you’ll be able to find Roots and Branches<\/em>\u00a0at your favourite online bookstore.\u00a0Or watch for me and my pile of copies at a conference near you!<\/p>\n

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