Frank Peretti

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January 13, 1951 in Canada

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http://www.frankperetti.com

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Mystery & Thrillers, Religion & Spirituality

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With more than 12 million novels in print, Frank Peretti is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon and has been called “America’s hottest Christian novelist.”

Peretti is a natural storyteller who, as a youngster in Seattle, regularly gathered the neighborhood children for animated storytelling sessions. After graduating from high school, he began playing banjo with a local bluegrass group. He and his wife were married in 1972, and Peretti soon moved from touring with a pop band to launching a modest Christian music ministry. Peretti later spent time studying English, screen writing and film at UCLA and then assisted his father in pastoring a small Assembly of God church. In 1983, he gave up his pastoring position and bega...more FROM HIS WEBSITE:
With more than 12 million novels in print, Frank Peretti is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon and has been called “America’s hottest Christian novelist.”

Peretti is a natural storyteller who, as a youngster in Seattle, regularly gathered the neighborhood children for animated storytelling sessions. After graduating from high school, he began playing banjo with a local bluegrass group. He and his wife were married in 1972, and Peretti soon moved from touring with a pop band to launching a modest Christian music ministry. Peretti later spent time studying English, screen writing and film at UCLA and then assisted his father in pastoring a small Assembly of God church. In 1983, he gave up his pastoring position and began taking construction jobs to make ends meet. While working at a local ski factory, he began writing This Present Darkness, the book that would catapult him into the public eye. After numerous rejections from publishers and a slow start in sales, word-of-mouth enthusiasm finally lifted This Present Darkness onto a tidal wave of interest in spiritual warfare. The book appeared on Bookstore Journal’s bestseller list every month for more than eight years. Peretti’s two spiritual warfare novels, This Present Darkness (1998) and Piercing the Darkness (1989), captivated readers, together selling more than 3.5 million copies. The Oath was awarded the 1996 Gold Medallion Award for best fiction.

For kids, Peretti wrote The Cooper Kids Adventure Series (Crossways and Tommy Nelson), which remains a best-selling series for children with sales exceeding 1 million copies. In August 2000, Peretti released the hilarious children’s audiocassette series titled Wild and Wacky Totally True Bible Stories, reprising his role as Mr. Henry, the offbeat substitute Sunday School teacher found in two Visual Bible for Kids videos.

Peretti released his first-ever non-fiction book, The Wounded Spirit in 2000, which quickly became a best-seller. The book addresses the pain of “wounded spirits” and was writted as a result of painful childhood experiences.

Frank Peretti and his wife, Barbara Jean, live in the Western U.S. In spite of sudden fame and notoriety, Frank still lives a simple, well-rounded life that includes carpentry, banjo making, sculpturing, bicycling and hiking. He is also an avid pilot.
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Franko can't sing!

Can you imagine! There I was, reading, reading, reading for the audiobook version of Illusion, and when I came to the part where Mandy does her Elvis impression, singing "Heartbreak Hotel," the director stopped me and said, "You can't sing that, it's copyrighted."

Oh. Well, right. Sure. I guess I knew that. So I had to stumble through that song without actually singing it which had to sound kind...

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Average rating: 3.93 · 68,774 ratings · 3,424 reviews · 50 distinct works

	This Present Darkness (Darkness, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 16,434 ratings — published 1986 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Piercing the Darkness (Darkness, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 11,411 ratings — published 1990 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Oath 3.95 avg rating — 6,541 ratings — published 1995 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Monster 3.67 avg rating — 5,374 ratings — published 2005 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Visitation 3.76 avg rating — 5,038 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Prophet 3.74 avg rating — 3,610 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Hangman's Curse (Veritas Project, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 2,459 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Nightmare Academy (Veritas Project, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 1,743 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Tilly 3.90 avg rating — 1,175 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Door in the Dragon's Throat (The Cooper Kids Adventure Series, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 1,071 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Darkness (2 books)
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4.16 avg rating — 27,760 ratings

The Cooper Kids Adventures (8 books)
by Frank Peretti

3.77 avg rating — 6,010 ratings

Veritas Project (2 books)
by Frank Peretti

3.84 avg rating — 4,195 ratings

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“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
― Frank Peretti

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“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”
― Frank Peretti, Monster

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“Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.”
― Frank Peretti

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