Joshua Made the Newspaper

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Joshua Made the Newspaper

Below is an interview with Lori Childers, owner of BlueStone Press - a local newspaper with global reach.

Lori: Stefan, congratulations on your book. From what you have told me so far it sounds very intriguing. I have to ask you… its main character is a rooster. Can you tell us a little bit about the story?

Stefan: Thanks, Lori. The story is about Joshua Aylong, a rooster, who lives a comfortable life in his pen doing what rooster do, protecting the hens, settling quarrels, and calling out each new day. One night while all the other chickens are asleep in the coop he realizes that there must be more to life than what’s in front of him each day. Something is missing and one day Joshua musters all his courage, pushes away his fear and doubt, flies up onto the highest perch inside the pen and, to the amazement of the other chickens, spreads his wings and flies out and into freedom. Little did he know that what he was about to encounter would change his life forever.

Lori: Would you tell us why you chose a rooster as your main character. Why not any other animal or person?

Stefan: This might sound strange but I didn’t choose him to be the main character. I didn’t wake up one morning thinking that I had to finally write that story about a rooster I have been contemplating for so long. The story, and Joshua, came about in a most unlikely setting: a sand box.

Lori: A sandbox?

Please continue reading at http://www.bluestonepress.net/stories/Stefan-Bolzs-The-Three-Feathers,27

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About This Blog

Dear reader,

welcome to "The Three Feathers". If you have read the book, this blog has lots of additional entries, mostly written by the characters of the story. The blog also gives insights into how the story of "The Three Feathers" came about and what is to come.

This is Joshua's blog. I serve as the moderator and contributor of some of the behind-the-scenes stuff like publishing schedule, etc. If this is your first time to the site, please feel free to look around and explore. Some of the entries have spoilers in them. If they do, it will say 'spoiler alert' in the header.

Enjoy,

Stefan

P.S. If you want to contact me, just email me at stefanbolz@yahoo.com.

About Myself (Joshua)

Thanks for reading my blog. I was thinking of late that maybe there are others like me who are on a similar journey than I was during the adventure of "The Three Feathers". Not quite the same of course but following their dream-whatever that may be but with the same hopes and fears and limitations I had to surpass in order to find what I was looking for. I didn't really think about it much until I got a visitor, a young man who one day came through the beacon and looked for me. And eventually he found me. Reluctantly at first I began to tell him my story and he, very faithfully, wrote it down. It came out pretty accurately. While I told him about my adventure I re-experienced some of the horrifying encounters of it. But I also had the chance to re-visit some of the most beautiful moments of my life. They had, in one way or the other, to do with the friends I made during the journey. Be it Alda, the turtle, Broga the mighty peeper frog, Ayres the eagle, Dragon-of-the-Stone with the most powerful dreams imaginable; and, of course, my dear friends Wind, Krieg and Grey, dearest of all. I miss you so much sometimes but I know that whatever distance and time will pass, we will never be apart, like true friends are.

Thank you all so much,

Joshua

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