The Shack is defined as a Christian novel and, rejected by main stream publishers as “too religious”, was self-published by the author and some friends. I wanted to logically analyze the difference between it and my own novel. As a currently unpublished author, with the novel written as part of my Masters of Arts degree defined by my professors as “unmarketable because it is religious, rather than spiritual”, I bought The Shack by William P Young with my head.
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