Windblown Media released The Shack in 2007, and by the summer of 2008 it had become a surprise bestseller, driven largely by word-of-mouth promotion. Assisted by Wayne Jacobsen and Brad Cummings in the process of editing and rewriting, Young attempted many times to find a commercial publisher before the group decided to form their own company, Windblown Media, and publish the book themselves. The earliest version of The Shack was one of these stories, but some of its readers encouraged him to publish the manuscript. Having settled in the United States as an adult, Young began writing stories for his children and friends. Young is the son of Christian missionaries who worked in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, and he grew up alternately amid the Dani ethnic group and in missionary boarding schools before the family moved back to Canada. The Shack is a novel by Canadian author William P.
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