G.P. Taylor, an Anglican priest-turned-best-selling-author of Shadowmancer (Charisma House/Penguin Putnam), said hackers recently attacked the Web site for his novel Tersias the Oracle (Penguin Putnam).

The site, www.tersias.com, was targeted last week, when links to thousands of porn sites were left on the readers' review page, Taylor, 46, added. "Children could have innocently looked at the site," he told Christian Retailing. " … I was appalled and sickened."

Taylor, who lives in Scarborough, England, said the reviews page has been removed. This isn't the first time that Taylor has been a victim of attacks on the Internet. In 2005, Taylor received online death threats and a group of book bloggers in the United Kingdom ran a hate campaign against him, he said.

"I didn't realize that when the BBC called me the 'new' C.S. Lewis that I would have death threats and people writing fake reviews on Amazon.com just to blacken my name," he said. "The books must be doing something for the Lord (with the attacks) I am getting. ... Strangely, I have a great peace about it as if others are fighting the battle on my behalf."

A former policeman, Taylor made a big splash with his fantasy novel, Shadowmancer, which reached No. 1 on the New York Times Children's Chapter best-seller list in 2004. The book has been translated into 48 languages.

The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street(Realms/Penguin Putnam) recently won the Children's category of the 2007 Yorkshire Book of the Year awards.

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