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The Green Ember: Book 1

The Green Ember


Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world.

Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend.

Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand?

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“This is the story we’ve been waiting for. When my audience wants to know our family’s favorite readaloud, I answer without hesitation: The Green Ember. My blog and podcast audience constantly thanks me for recommending it. The Green Ember has become a true cult classic for Read-Aloud Revivalers all over the world, regardless of their denomination, their children’s ages, or their parenting style. It’s the story that unites us. Our whole community eagerly awaits whatever S.D. Smith is up to next.”
Sarah Mackenzie
host of the Read-Aloud Revival podcast, author of Teaching From Rest

“A captivating story with sword-bearing rabbits, daring quests, and moments of poignant beauty, The Green Ember is a tale that will delight and inspire young readers to courage and creativity and would make a perfect book for a family to read aloud.”
Sarah Clarkson
author of Read for the Heart and Caught Up in a Story

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Lots of concern about media and boys, and we’re Lots of concern about media and boys, and we’re doing something about it! 

Loved being on with Amy Sloan (Humility and Doxology) to talk about books and boys and games and creating with the intent to serve.
Kids > Profit We've carefully designed a game wit Kids > Profit

We've carefully designed a game with no:
❌ ads
❌ in-game purchases
❌ chat

This game has a:
✅ beginning
✅ middle
✅ end

We've been told that this type of model won't work but I believe there are families out there who want a radically hospitable game that treats kids as human beings. We're taking the harder route because it's the better route.

⚔️

#greenember #sdsmith #bookrecommendations #videogame
How it all began. There were rabbits in the yard. How it all began.

There were rabbits in the yard...

🎤 Mere Christians podcast with Jordan Raynor

#greenember #rabbitswithswords #bookrecommendations #author
We’re in the TOP 1% 🎉 Kickstarter has just n We’re in the TOP 1% 🎉

Kickstarter has just named us a “Project We Love”. They’re taking notice.

Of the 13,000+ children’s publishing projects on Kickstarter, Green Ember: Helmer in the Dragon Tomb is currently sitting at #9 of all time...halfway through.

Not only that, of the live projects in children’s publishing it’s currently the:
#1 Most Funded
#1 Most Backed
#1 Most Popular (we overtook Chupacabra and Krampus plushie pals 👀)
Outperforming 99.9% of projects

You did that.

Families are happily supporting this cause, not million-dollar studios or corporate backers.

We want better media for our kids. And we’re putting our money where our heart is.

BUT WE'RE NOT DONE YET

Most games today are built like slot machines—designed to seem cheap up front, then pull players in with addictive loops and endless in-game purchases. We’ve chosen a different path, one that doesn’t exploit kids or families. But that choice makes our journey more difficult.

I’m truly thankful for the amazing support we’ve already seen. It means the world to me. I want to see this beautiful, rare adventure reach even more kids. I believe it can—but we need your help to get there.

If you haven’t backed yet, would you consider doing it today? And if the game’s not right for your home, gift it to a family who would use it?

Your support makes this possible. Let's keep going. Let's show the world that families still care about hopeful, hospitable storytelling without hidden agendas.
 
Our kids deserve better media.
 
Let's give it to them.

I'm on your side,

Sam
It's a game based off the book. Story first, alway It's a game based off the book. Story first, always.

#bookstagram #videogames #videogamization #storytelling
Halfway in and we’re doing great. Thank you! T Halfway in and we’re doing great. Thank you! 

Top Ten ALL TIME for Kickstarter Children’s Publishing projects with 15 days to go! 

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