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“[Lewis] said to me one day: ‘Tollers, there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.” These words from Tolkien recounting the conversation with Lewis from which The Lord of the Rings and The Ransom Trilogy sprang captures the spirit of indie writers, particularly those like myself who are seeking to get back to stories set within an implicit Christian framework. There’s no point in pulling punches. The realities of self/indie publishing are stark and if sales were the only metric, they would be pretty discouraging. I wish it were different… I wish all our works were top notch and all of them caught fire. But that’s not why we write them. We write these stories because they can’t stay shut up inside. We write in hopes that we’ll reach the reader who’s looking for just that tale at just this time. We write because we love these unreal people and places that came roaring into our souls and we know that love cannot be smothered by the manipulations of marketing or the mindlessness of machines. We write this fight, knowing we will likely lose it in the world’s eyes, but confident there is a world coming where true fictions win the day. That’s the fire we’ve caught. And it’s the fire everyone wants to be warmed by, even if they’re not sure why. Be of good courage, my friends and fellow world builders. We have what they need.