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New Children’s Book Sends a Boy and His Robot Cat Into a Broken-Down Clockwork World
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Travis Anderson has published his debut book, "Rodger Ridiculous and the Clockwork Island," a children’s adventure built around a boy who believes instinct and creativity can get him through anything.
The story begins with an ordinary malfunction: Rodger’s RC car breaks down, and a strange ticking sound pulls him into the Clockwork Island, a world of gears, brass fittings and machinery that is slowly sinking and badly in need of repair. According to the announcement, the island becomes both a puzzle for Rodger to solve and, in effect, a classroom.
He doesn’t do it alone. Rodger is paired with a robot cat described as exacting and insistent on maps, order and instruction, a foil to the boy’s instinct to wing it. The publisher’s description frames the book around that friction: a boy who leads with spontaneity, a companion who leads with planning, and a story that argues the two aren’t really in conflict. "Being bold and being responsible aren’t opposing forces," Anderson said in the announcement, "they’re partners in any truly memorable adventure."
Anderson lives in central Pennsylvania with his wife and three children. The announcement describes him as a longtime writer of stories and poetry for his family, with this book marking his first published work. The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is listed for sale at bookstores and through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play and Barnes & Noble.
Children’s books that pair a free-spirited protagonist with a more rule-bound sidekick are a familiar shape in the genre, but the clockwork setting gives this one a distinct visual hook. Studio CarryOnHarry will be curious whether Anderson builds out Rodger’s world in future volumes, or whether this is a standalone story.
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David E. Pullmann has published "Zechariah meets Thomas Jefferson," a short novel built on a simple premise: a young man named Zechariah finds Thomas Jefferson wandering his neighborhood, invites him home, and ends up walking the third president through two centuries of change. The book, published through Christian Faith Publishing, runs 20 pages and became available in paperback on September 17, 2026.
As narrator, Zechariah introduces Jefferson to the digital revolution, advances in medicine, social progress, and the evolution of the democratic ideals Jefferson himself championed. According to the publisher, the book uses that setup to ask how a founder might judge whether the country lived up to what he envisioned, and what from his era still holds up.
Pullmann spent more than three decades at the Library of Congress, starting as a music cataloger before moving into systems analysis, where he wrote software for cataloging operations. He holds a graduate degree in musicology and a library science degree from Catholic University, and worked separately as a flight instructor in the Washington, D.C. area. The publisher’s announcement frames that career-long focus on how information gets organized and passed down as the throughline behind the book’s premise.
"I wanted to create a space where readers could reimagine history through fresh dialogue," Pullmann said in the announcement. "By placing Jefferson in our world, we can examine both how far we’ve come and what we might have lost in the process."
The book is described as blending humor with more serious reflection as Jefferson reacts to a world he couldn’t have anticipated. It’s available through major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store, as well as through Christian Faith Publishing directly.
Studio CarryOnHarry finds the premise an efficient device for a civics conversation dressed up as fiction — the kind of book likely to find its audience among readers already inclined to think about founders and legacy, rather than one aiming for a wide crossover readership.
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Gabelmann identifies himself as a cradle Christian who spent years sensing a gap between regular church attendance and what he calls authentic relationship with God. According to the announcement, that gap closed through what he describes as a divine vision revealing what Scripture terms the Way of the Breaker, a concept he ties to Micah 2:12-13. He has worked as an evangelist since 2007, and this book follows an earlier one documenting his first steps into ministry; the publisher describes "The Church Breaker" as the point where that calling, in Gabelmann’s account, took its clearest shape.
The book itself, per the publisher’s description, combines personal narrative with scriptural argument to make the case that the Spirit of Christ lives in all believers independent of religious ritual or institutional structure. Gabelmann presents the matter as urgent and contemporary, contending that believers can access the supernatural realm of God in the present moment, not reserved for an afterlife.
"My passion is to awaken the Church to understand that Jesus Christ is alive and present today," Gabelmann said in the announcement. "I want to lead God’s people out of the confining walls built by religion and into the true freedom of a relationship with Christ Jesus."
The book is published through Christian Faith Publishing and is available in paperback, as well as through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble. Studio CarryOnHarry notes that Gabelmann’s argument sits within a long tradition of evangelists distinguishing personal faith from institutional religion — the specifics of his biblical interpretation are what readers will have to judge for themselves.
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