'The Shack' Author, William P. Young Interview

December 4, 2007 by Sherman Hu
Filed under Faith-Based, Interviews, Video

The Shack Book

On November 13th, 2007, William P. Young (he goes by Paul), author of The Shack, visited my hometown for a book signing and we were thrilled to finally connect LIVE in living color! Here’s the back story…

On August 30th, I finished reading The Shack. Read the back cover to get the gist for what The Shack is about. It’s my favorite book I’ve read all year!

I emailed Paul immediately, with this intro…

“Hi Paul, I just finished the book about 5 minutes ago, and I’m wrecked! I cried, I laughed, wept, then laughed again. Thank you!…”

In the email, I shared how I would like to volunteer just a few hours to help him revamp his blog, which so happened to be the professional Wordpress theme I coach my students at WordpressTutorials.com to use. Honestly, it was a pitiful sight, and it needed some TLC

What I didn’t realize was that in May this same year, a Paul Young had registered at WordpressTutorials.com and was attempting to set up his own blog. The same Paul Young! So when he received my email, he knew exactly who I was and his prompt reply was…

“Dear God-send…the username and password combination for windrumors.com is… Brother, you can do ‘whatever’ you want!!! You have my permission to totally have fun with this!…”

Amazing small world huh? God works in mysterious ways…

So what you see at www.WindRumors.com is what I’ve helped him with so far, and there’s more to do. The video interview below includes our conversation about what technology we could potentially deploy to help his readers and audience share their feedback and voice on his blog.

This video interview has been split into 3 parts. Our conversation revolves around faith, spirituality, The Shack book’s miraculous results in sales, language translation, virality, and lives changed, and also technology, new media and social media. I challenge you to view these videos and to pick up a copy of the book for yourself. I’ve already ordered and handed out 2 autographed case lots of The Shack from Paul

Enjoy these videos and/or MP3s (may be easier to download to consume it) and I invite your feedback and comments…