About the Book
Book: Frogman Puck Origins: The Rising Tides
Author: Joel Chanaca
Genre: Christian Sci-Fi / Action & Adventure (Teen & Young Adult)
Release Date: September, 2025
Frogman Puck Origins: The Rising Tides
The Legends Awaken: A Hero’s Dream Quest
Embark on an exhilarating journey beneath the waves—where dreams awaken, faith is tested, and a new kind of hero begins to rise.
Frogman Puck Origins introduces readers to Puck, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary dream: to explore the hidden world beneath the surface. What begins as curiosity about mysterious scuba gear in a neighbor’s shed becomes a life-changing adventure—one that carries him from the dreamlike stillness of lily pad ponds into the awe-inspiring reality of deep underwater exploration.
As Puck learns to scuba dive, he uncovers hidden strengths, long-buried secrets, and a mission far greater than he ever imagined. With each descent, the boundary between dream and destiny blurs, drawing him into a world of courage, stewardship, teamwork, and biblical truth.
Told through a unique blend of immersive prose and cinematic illustrations, the story visually mirrors Puck’s growth—shifting from the hazy wonder of childhood imagination to vivid, hyper-realistic underwater missions that place readers right beside him.
Perfect for fans of discovery, mystery, faith-based adventure, and clean action storytelling, Frogman Puck Origins: The Rising Tides is the beginning of an illustrated hero’s journey where imagination meets purpose—and the depths hold more than secrets.
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About the Author
Joel Chanaca is a four-time Global Book Awards–winning author whose stories blend adventure, heart, humor, and faith. His work has been recognized across multiple categories, including Humor and Heart, Children’s Books, and Teen & Young Adult Action & Adventure—celebrating storytelling that inspires without compromising imagination or excitement.
Alongside his writing career, Joel serves as a game warden with over twenty-six years of experience in wildlife law enforcement and public safety. His lifelong connection to the outdoors—shaped by years of camping, fishing, canoeing, scuba diving, and animal care—deeply informs the authenticity and spirit of his stories.
Joel is the creator of the Frogman Puck illustrated novel series, a cinematic, faith-based adventure world designed to engage reluctant readers, families, and young adults alike. The series pairs full narrative storytelling with rich illustrations to reawaken wonder, visual imagination, and purpose-driven heroism.
In 2025, Joel also released a newly illustrated edition of Patches the Cat Is a Thief, bringing fresh life to the award-winning story that first captured readers’ hearts.
Whether crafting lighthearted animal tales or epic underwater adventures, Joel’s work consistently reflects themes of character, stewardship, courage, friendship, and hope.
“The elements of design are all around us. If we pause long enough to look, we can see how God has made a place for us. Beyond the wonders of the earth, His plan reaches into eternity.”
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More from Joel
When I set out to write Frogman Puck Origins, I wanted to bring something genuinely new to readers, both those who read constantly and those who sometimes struggle to stay engaged. I envisioned an all-new, fully illustrated novel featuring clean, epic superheroes, told in a way that feels fresh, immersive, and meaningful.
Most superhero stories begin with accidents, mistakes, or powers gained by touching a mysterious artifact. In the world of Frogman Puck, the heroes’ origins are different. Their abilities are forged through purpose, hard work, teamwork, faith, and ingenious design. The story begins with the roots of child-like memories and grows into something much larger, showing how character is built long before power is ever used.
At its heart, Frogman Puck Origins is designed to do two things at once. It invites older readers back to the wonder, curiosity, and imagination of their youth, while encouraging younger readers to dream big, work hard, and plant good seeds that will grow into strong character. It is a story about becoming, not just becoming powerful, but becoming grounded, courageous, and faithful.
The series taps into riddles, adventure, super abilities, and deep friendships, all presented in a format unlike anything else currently on the market. Readers can expect wall-crawling, SCUBA diving, flying, underwater tunnels, octopods, secret labs, personally designed base headquarters, and fierce battles between darkness and light. Every element is layered to reward curiosity and keep pages turning.
Frogman Puck Origins is only the beginning. As the series continues, the world expands, the stakes rise, and the heroes are tested in ways that challenge not only their strength but their values and faith. It is a story built to entertain, inspire, and stay with readers long after the final page.
The Frogman Puck Series is a cinematic, faith-based adventure that grows in depth and intensity with each installment. Origins begins as a dream-driven journey into underwater exploration, where curiosity, mentorship, and imagination awaken a young hero’s calling. Resurgent accelerates into a full-scale action narrative, introducing advanced symbiotic technology, global stakes, and a coordinated enemy operating in the shadows. Reckoning brings the story to its most complex and consequential phase, revealing hidden systems beneath the surface of the world itself and challenging the heroes to confront truth, deception, and sacrifice on a global scale. Across all three books, the series blends illustrated storytelling, clean action, and biblical themes to explore stewardship, courage, faith, and what it means to answer a call—one step, one mission, and one choice at a time.
God Bless, Joel Chanaca
Author Interview
When and how did you decide to become a writer?
I did not grow up planning to be a writer.
My father actually published a children’s story during the pandemic while caring for my ninety-three-year-old grandmother. He was quarantined at home and kept asking for more books to read and write. Watching him create during that season planted something in me.
At the same time, my parents challenged me to try writing fiction. I had always been active. I was diving, surfing, training, and exploring outdoors. I was a reluctant reader who preferred action, visuals, and momentum. But I began to realize there was a gap in Christian action-adventure for families who wanted something clean, faith-centered, and cinematic.
That is when Frogman Puck Origins began to take shape.
I saw a need for Christian illustrated novels that could engage adventurous kids, especially those who struggle to sit still, while still anchoring them in Biblical worldview fiction. I wanted to build stories families could trust. Stories that modeled courage, discipline, leadership, teamwork, and faith under pressure.
It was not about becoming an author. It was about answering a need.
Describe your book in five words.
Faith forged an underwater epic adventure.
That captures the heart of Frogman Puck. It is a Christian action-adventure rooted in design, discipline, and purpose. It carries faith-based sci-fi elements, underwater exploration, strong leadership, humor, and family values, but everything is anchored in truth.
Do you ever hide things in your stories for readers to find?
Yes. Absolutely.
There are subtle and sometimes bold elements layered throughout the series. Some are visual details in the illustrated scenes. Some are symbolic names. Some are structural parallels drawn from Scripture. Others are thematic threads that reward readers who slow down and look deeper.
Sometimes it may take reading the Bible, researching a passage, or revisiting a chapter more than once to notice what is there. That is intentional.
You never know what lies beneath the surface until you dive in.
That concept mirrors both SCUBA diving and spiritual growth. On the surface, it is a clean teen fiction adventure. Beneath it, there are layers of meaning about creation, responsibility, sacrifice, and redemption.
I want readers to enjoy the action. But I also want them to discover the truth for themselves.
What are your hobbies?
Much of what I enjoy naturally flows into the books.
I serve as a game warden. Outside of writing, I enjoy SCUBA diving, boating, fishing, exploring swamps and coastal waterways, aviation training, and studying design in creation. I have trained in Christian martial arts and have always been drawn to disciplined physical activity.
Those experiences shape the realism in Frogman Puck Origins, Frogman Puck: Resurgent, and the developing Frogman Puck: Reckoning.
I believe stories should feel lived in. When underwater missions, aviation principles, or conservation themes appear in the series, they are grounded in experience. That authenticity strengthens this Christian action-adventure world and helps it resonate with both teenage boys and girls, as well as parents reading alongside them.
Do you have a favorite Bible verse, or is there a particular Bible story that really resonates with you?
Choosing one is difficult.
“It is finished” gives me chills every time. Those words carry the weight of redemption, sacrifice, and completion. Everything in history pivots on that moment.
Genesis also deeply shapes me. “In the beginning God created.” That declaration of intentional design forms the backbone of the Frogman Puck universe. We are not accidents. We are created with purpose.
The story of Job humbles me. Jonah and the great fish challenge me. Jonah did not want to do what God asked of him. Later, Christ referenced those three days as a sign. Then in the garden, Jesus prayed, “If it is possible, take this cup from me. Yet not my will, but Your will be done.” He did what was necessary, even when it meant bearing the full weight of our transgressions.
Those moments shape how I understand obedience, sacrifice, and leadership.
Even passages describing the flood, the Nephilim, Behemoth, and Leviathan stir my imagination. God speaks of creatures that people could see and observe. Today, we uncover fossils buried under layers of earth that echo descriptions in Scripture. Creation itself testifies to design and power.
Those themes fuel the epic scale found in this faith-based sci-fi adventure series. But they also remind me that truth is not fantasy. It is foundational.
Blog Stops
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Paula’s Pad of Inspiration, May 18 (Author Interview)
The Lofty Pages, May 19
Simple Harvest Reads, May 20 (Author Interview)
Artistic Nobody, May 21 (Author Interview)
Guild Master, May 22 (Author Interview)
Texas Book-aholic, May 22
Fiction Book Lover, May 23 (Author Interview)
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, May 24
The Bookish Ledger, May 25 (Author Interview)
Vicky Sluiter, May 26 (Author Interview)
For the Love of Literature, May 27 (Author Interview)
Blogging With Carol, May 27
Tell Tale Book Reviews, May 28 (Author Interview)
Giveaway
To celebrate his tour, Joel is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card and an autographed copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
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