William P. Young

William P. Young is one of the highly renowned novelists from Canada, who has written some of the most popular books based on the suspense, Christian fiction, and Christian fantasy genres. A few of his standalone novels are very popular, including Cross Roads, Eve, and The Shack. In one of his interviews, author Young said that his initial writings were intended to be given to his friends as gifts. Later, he began taking writing seriously when his wife began urging repeatedly to think of their 6 children and their upbringing. She used to also urge Young to write about his perspectives on inner healing and God that he had experienced as a grown up adult. As a result, author Young came up with the manuscript of his book The Shack. Initially, he had intended to write the story for his 6 kids and some close friends, but he later published it as The Shack. At first, Young had printed only 15 copies of the novel. A couple of his close friends encouraged author Young to get the book published. They also assisted him with the editing and rewriting so as to get the manuscript prepared for publication. However, it went on to be rejected by as many as 26 publishers. Author Young became very much disappointed with this and subsequently, he and his friends decided to release the novel under the name of the new publishing company created by them in 2007, the Windblown Media. They spent just 200 Canadian dollars for the advertising of the book. The referrals made by the word of the mouth eventually helped the book to reach the number one spot on the bestseller list of the trade paperback fiction by the New York Times in the year 2008. Throughout the November of 2008, The Shack topped the charts of selling both as audio and fiction book. After this immense success, author Young was noticed by the publishers and consequently, he was easily able to publish his future books through other publishers.