Today is my 63rd birthday. I spent it talking with my children on the phone, looking at a church property in nearby Shawnee, and enjoying a quiet evening meal with my wife. She and I also packed up the yurt’s canvas cover in a Christmas Tree carry-all lest it get soaked in the rain storm we’re expecting. I didn’t think about my daily post here except to wonder, “Will I get to that today?”
Then I thought of the short tape Tyndale filmed in 2004 to share with Christian bookstore owners about one of their new titles, Looking for God in Harry Potter. It was the much revised version of my Hidden Key to Harry Potter that a dear friend and I had self published in 2002. Books that had pigeon-holed Harry Potter as a gateway to the occult, even Satanic literature, had been selling very well at Christian bookstores so Tyndale knew it had to create a tool of some kind to help their salesmen get this title with the opposite message a chance in a very important market.
By 2008, Looking had gone through two revisions and updates — and was put out to pasture as the last edition of the book was re-titled How Harry Cast His Spell. Tyndale decided to put up the four minute book-trailer video on YouTube then.
For a quick birthday post, the twentieth anniversary (sort of!) of the publication of the thrice-titled work that is far and away the best selling of my eight books and other anthologies, putting this up seems more than okay. Enjoy!
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