In this conversation, Catherine sits down with William Paul Young, author of The Shack, to hear the story behind writing Return to the Shack: A Journey into Redemption (releasing October 6, 2026). Paul pulls back the curtain on the creative process, shares how his nine years of friendship with men on death row became the unexpected seed for the sequel, and talks honestly about grief, forgiveness, and what it looks like to keep living after a life-changing encounter with God.
In this episode you'll hear:
- How Paul went from "I'll never write a sequel" to 40,000 words in 8 days
- The death row friendships that inspired the story's redemption arc
- What good editing actually does to a creative work
- How his characters "take over" and surprise even him
- Why he describes Return to the Shack as "a choir" compared to the original's "soloist"
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