John Mitchell - Award winning songwriter, composer and producer
Fipke’s epic saga, “The Way In”, takes the reader on an amazing journey of spiritual discovery. He builds a bridge between what we think we know of the world and the wonders of the imagined travels of Jesus. You can almost hear the music of a thousand cultures as a backdrop to this lyrical exploration for knowledge. Poem, prose, song - it is all these and more.
Steven Miller - Internationally published novelist of The Messenger, The Last Train to Kazan, Field of Mars, The Woman in the Yard, and Wastefall, and currently a writer on the CBC series, The Romeo Section.
The Way In is an impressive achievement, an outside the box imagining of a wandering Jesus who is more of a modern than you might expect. You might expect a proselytizing epic but you'll be surprised. It's a song cycle, a mind expanding meditation, and an hero's quest rolled into to one dynamic vision. Bravo, Mr. Fipke.
Annabel Lyon - Author of best selling historical novels The Sweet Girl and The Golden Mean
W.C. Fipke's The Way In is utterly original, unlike anything else I've ever read. This lyrical verse epic will challenge the reader's preconceptions about what a book can be and do.
Noll Derriksan - Grand Chief of the Westbank First Nation and Grand Chief of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
Astounding! Masterly crafted, expertly written, truly a joy and inspiration to read. The book brings to mind many images, I’d love the opportunity as an artist to do images for it. It should be adapted by Disney or the best movie producers into a family movie with top quality animation. I was very surprised how skillfully the prose like writing was - beautifully done.
George McWhirter - Prof at UBC and Poet Laureate of British Columbia
Only a poet-playwright who has quested for diamonds in the gumbo and under the permafrost could follow the gleam of epiphanies and tears in the eyes of Jesus on his journeys along “The Way”. For those who wonder where he went during all those lost years, here are new stories to add to older Apocrypha. Episode by episode, verse by verse, the unfoldings can be read as the sacred narratives and profane poetries always have been. In this journal of his journeys Jesus travels through many countries only to return to the discovery that his identity is the way he sought and it is there for everyone to read, mark and admire through its evolving in this piece of resonant, contemporary Apocrypha. Fipke has melded the highly spiritual and highly physical into that identity so that it comes to light slowly like a second sight and sixth sense along with the other five vividly at play in the man with a spirit and soul as wide as the lands and seas he voyages across.
Capital News - Challenging labour of love for Kelowna author Fipke.
A history novel, it explores the life of Jesus Christ and what his early years might have been like, what kind of adventures he may have gotten into.
Kelowna Daily Courier
Filled with poetry and songs about religion, The Way In by author W.C. Fipke of Kelowna isn't light reading. It is, however, a very interesting read, as it's anything but an atypical novel.
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