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Thanks for stopping by! My name is Chip Polk and I write plays, books, and songs. Most people know me from the stage at Ragtown Gospel Theater in Post, Texas, where the plays and musicals I’ve written have been produced since 2007. If you’ve never had occasion to visit, I perform a concert and chat with the audience before each production, usually playing my piano and singing some of my own tunes, but I also enjoy throwing in my own rendition of some of the old traditional gospel songs we don’t hear all that often in church anymore. Friends drop by to sing and play with me most weekends. I’ve had the honor of sharing the Ragtown stage with a lot of the folks you’ve seen on Gaither videos over the years.
I like to cut up. I want people to laugh and have a good time when they’re there. Everybody has stuff they’re dealing with, but when they walk in the doors at Ragtown, my hope is that all that is left behind, and for a couple of hours everything is okay. I hope that same thing happens when people are reading my books.
By the grace of the Lord Jesus, I’m a loved and accepted Child of God, so that view of life and the world finds its way into what I write, which includes over thirty plays, seven of which are musicals, somewhere around a hundred songs, and two books. One is a little Christmas novella based on one of my musicals, Say Nicklaase! My first full length novel is The Undeniable Possibility. I recently released my fifth album, the first one that is all piano. It’s a collection of all original pieces entitled Signs & Wonders.
I hope you discover something you enjoy here on the site. If you’re ever going to be anywhere near cereal inventor C.W. Post’s utopian city, Post, Texas, on a Saturday, please plan to come see us at Ragtown Gospel Theater. I’d love to meet you in person.
The Undeniable Possibility
The seed for this book was planted in 1984. I didn’t write it for thirty years. And even after I finally did, the finished manuscript sat on my hard drive almost five years. I think I was just afraid. Afraid because when I let other people read it, it wouldn’t be a secret anymore.
All the experts say that my blurb should be a cleverly worded intriguing hook that grabs the reader’s attention. They also say it’s crucial that the cover looks like all the other books in its genre. Well, there’s not a genre for The Undeniable Possibility. Yes, it’s a fictional story, but I think it’s more than that. Since it was published in 2018, I’ve had so many people come up to me at my concerts, write to me, and otherwise seek me out just to tell me that it helped them. That they read the last page and started back at the beginning and read it again.
It’s a story about a family that you may miss after you’ve read the last page. But it won’t be over. It will leave you with something you might ponder. It may leave you with something to hold onto.
I’ve attempted to describe it as a story about a family’s healing after a loss. But that loss is just the hard part of a beautiful love story, and the catalyst for a long-buried secret to be revealed. It’s a story about identity…the ones we choose, and the ones thrust upon us. And it is a story about how thin the veil is between the world we see, and the one beyond, and what a comfort believing that can be.
I don’t know if this is intriguing enough to make you want to read The Undeniable Possibility, but I hope you will. And when you do, I hope you won’t keep the secret.
As thank you for visiting my website, since we’re drawing close to the Christmas season, I’d like to offer you a free download of the title song from my Christmas album, Hands of a Carpenter. Just click on this link, and you’ll be able to get the song, and if you like, you may sign up to receive information about upcoming releases of new books and music. Merry Christmas!
Say Nicklaase
A Great & Wonderful Christmas Story
Nicklaase and Meena Elliffe are house parents at State Home for Children No. 13. But they are much more than that. The Elliffe household shares the joyful endeavor of making toys for all the other children who live in children’s home cottages in their valley. The toys they make are distributed once every year, on Christmas Eve.
When an ambitious new headmaster of the children’s home forbids the gifts to be given out, it begins an unforeseen chain of disastrous events. The final calamity results in an opportunity for the Elliffes and the children living in their cottage to trust that the Lord can indeed work all things together for good.
It’s a Christmas story that will make you want to believe.
