R.C. Jameson
Husband, father, minister, and storyteller — writing the kind of books he wants on his own kids' shelves.
R.C. Jameson was born and raised in Northern California, where he still lives with his wife and three children. He's a devoted husband, an attentive father, and a minister deeply involved in preaching and music in his church community — and somewhere along the way, he became a writer of children's books, too.
His writing reflects a single, simple passion: raising a generation of boys marked by strength, mercy, faith, and courage. When he saw the kind of stories filling kids' bookshelves — bright, fun, often beautifully illustrated, but rarely formative — he started writing the ones he wished were already there. Stories that don't moralize, but that quietly teach the heart. Stories his own children would still want him to read at bedtime.
Stories shape young hearts. The question is only whether they're being shaped on purpose.
Why stories for boys
Walk into any children's section and count the princesses. Count the brave girls, the quick-witted girls, the girls who save the day. It's a good list, and a long one. Now count the princes. Count the boys who are being shown what it looks like to be kind and strong, gentle and unafraid, a servant and a son.
R.C. writes for the boys on that second, shorter list — and for the parents and grandparents trying to raise them. Our culture tends to quietly shrink the masculine and amplify the feminine, and the cost of that imbalance shows up later in weak men and anxious sons. These books push the other direction: toward boys who know how to kneel and how to stand, how to weep and how to fight, how to honor a mother and follow a father.
That's not a manifesto — it's just why the main characters in these books are princes, not princesses. There are shelves full of brave girls. These are the brave boys.
The world behind the stories
Both series are set in the Kingdom of Meridia, anchored by Castle Highstone. The stories rarely unpack all of this on the page — young readers don't need the full weight of the world handed to them — but the backdrop is real, and it shapes every page.
King Roland has two sons. Prince Justin, the elder, is heir to the throne and the protagonist of the Lion Heir Series. Prince Lawrence, the younger, is the small adventurer at the heart of the picture books. Their mother, the queen, died of sickness while Roland was away at battle. The kingdom knows it. The boys know it. The castle feels it.
So these are stories of a father raising sons in grief — teaching them virtue not from a pulpit, but from the saddle and the supper table and the long walk home. A king who is still learning how to be a father. Two brothers who are still learning how to be men. That's the soil the stories grow in.
Two series, two ages, one kingdom
R.C.'s work is organized around a single fictional world — a kingdom whose center is Castle Highstone — told from two different angles for two different reading ages.
The Adventures of Prince Lawrence is a picture-book series for ages 4–10, drawn from biblical themes and parables. Inspired by the warm, hand-painted storybooks of an earlier era, each volume is meant to be read aloud, reread until the spine cracks, and eventually handed down. The collected hardcover, Volume 1, brings the first three stories together as a heirloom edition.
The Lion Heir Series begins in May 2026 with Prince Justin & The Black Duke of Thornmoor. Middle-grade Christian fantasy for ages 10–14 — set in the same world, but older, sharper, and braver. These are the chapter-book quests for the readers who have outgrown picture books and are ready for stories about power, mercy, fear, and faith.
Beyond the children's books
Under his real name, R.C. is preparing a separate body of work for adult readers — a collection of theological and pastoral writing rooted in years of ministry. Those books, along with the children's series, form the foundation of Kingdom Heritage Press: an independent Christian publishing house that R.C. and his family are slowly building into a home for faith-filled storytelling.
If you'd like to get in touch
R.C. loves hearing from families, teachers, librarians, and Sunday school leaders. For school visits, read-alouds, podcast interviews, or just a kind word — the contact page is the best front door.