Deepest Grief - Profound Relief

Canadian speaker and author Andrea Thom 

initializes our new
Entrusted Books imprint

with her study on
The Book of Ruth.

Happy Launch Day for one of our newest authors, Andrea Thom.


AND, Happy Launch Day to one of our newest imprints, Entrusted Books.

ANNNND, Happy Launch Day to Ruth: Redeeming the Darkness, the first in the Rising Hope Bible series.

The unique Book of Ruth provides the stage for this outstanding study of God's redemption and unfailing love. Here's how Andrea puts it:

It’s unlike any book of the Bible that you’ve ever read. In Ruth, words like love story, theatrical, and screenplay are accurate descriptors alongside historical, and gospel-centered. Despite its small size, this book is profound enough to explode hope and redemption into your darkest pain and everyday frustrations. It’s a book that’s for everyday people like you and me – longing to be known and yet fully loved anyway, to experience joy even though we are goof-ups more than we ought to be.

Ruth’s message is not presented as a five-point sermon, but as a spectacular, on-stage, romantic drama that woos us into relationship with its characters and storyline. Its message brings grace where we’ve sinned, peace in our devastation, and hope despite impossibilities.

Its love story is not just one between a man and a woman, but between us and Christ - the ultimate lover of our souls. Ruth conveys the love story of Christ coming to redeem His people. Christ is coming for YOU. He’s the only One we can trust to offer real hope and redemption for our eternal future and everyday realities. We can know and love all the Bible words without loving Jesus, but we can’t love Christ without loving His Word. Experiencing Jesus alive and at work in us is essential, possible and awesome!

The host has ripped your ticket for Ruth’s next performance and you’re sitting front row center as His guest of honor. Come expectantly and settle into your seat prayerfully— God has set the stage for you to experience this drama together with Him at this precise time of your life. So let’s bring the real you and me to meet the living Jesus in Ruth so that He can move in honest places like yours and mine. The orchestra is cued, and the curtain is pulling back for Act 1. Ready?

Get your copy of RUTH - REDEEMING THE DARKNESS!

Enjoy the Holidays and get a Special Discount!

99¢ TODAY ONLY!

The holidays, with the delight of friends and family, various parties and gatherings, sales and promotions, decisions on gifts and food and events and people and so on and so on ...

There's no doubt they create amazing memories of fun and building relationships. But they can also add to stress and frustration. Take care of yourself as you face the holiday season with 50 notes of inspiration and devotion focused on the days of November and December.

And you can purchase GLIMPSES OF THE SAVIOR on its launch day for only 99¢.

TODAY!

Here!

And Get ready for us to show you some LOVE! Our annual WE LOVE OUR READERS sweepstakes begins next Monday! Watch for more or visit the Sweepstakes tab at www.WriteIntegrity.com!

Happy Launch Day, IMPERFECT PROMISES

Happy Launch Day!
IMPERFECT PROMISES

To celebrate, YOU are getting the gifts.

(Titles are buy-links.)

1st - enjoy IMPERFECT PROMISES at it's lowest price today only! Help us launch her sky high and get the e-book for only 99¢!

2nd - enjoy the FOURTH book of the series,
IMPERFECT LIES,
also for only 99¢ as part of our We Love Our Readers promotions.

3rd - enjoy the first book of the series,
IMPERFECT WINGS, 

for FREE! 

You heard that right!

TODAY ONLY at Amazon!

HAPPY LAUNCH DAY

REBECCA'S LEGACY

To celebrate, YOU are getting the gifts.
(Titles are buy-links.)

1st - enjoy REBECCA'S LEGACY at it's lowest price today only! Help us launch her sky high and get the e-book for only 99¢!

2nd - enjoy the second book of the series, CARLOTTA'S LEGACY, also for only 99¢ as part of our We Love Our Readers promotions.

3rd - enjoy the first book of the series, AMELIA'S LEGACY, 

for FREE! 

You heard that right!

TODAY ONLY at Amazon!

Starting Over ...

Editor's Note: My grandmother once told me about living through the stock market crash and the subsequent depression. Most political and social issues trickle down into Texas, having an effect long after the actual event. But not the crash. Already reeling from an intense drought, Dallas reacted almost immediately with banks closing, homes going into foreclosure, and businesses shutting down all over the area. My grandmother recalled the breadlines and how, a few years later, her husband left her and her newborn to work on the roads of a national park because that was the only job he could get. Even into her old age, Grandmother hid money in coffee cans and the pockets of old clothes she never wore. We even found a wad of cash in the hem of one of her coats after she passed away. CARLOTTA'S LEGACY makes this time period all-to-real, all over again. MLC

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CARLOTTA'S LEGACY  is available beginning Sunday, August 5, for only 99¢. And watch for the release of the final book of the series, REBECCA'S LEGACY, on Tuesday, August 7. It will be only 99¢ too, that day only!

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What if life changed in a day’s time, you had to pack up and leave your home to start over in a foreign country? Well maybe, if that foreign country was Umbria, right next door to Tuscany in Italy, it wouldn’t be so bad.

In October of 1929, the stock market crashed, and Rebecca Lewis lost her job at a local bank. Within days, another tragedy struck, and she had to rush to New York City. Her entire world turned upside-down. She had no recourse, but to finalize a proposal and marry that guy in Italy.

Did she love him? She wasn’t sure. But, he had a villa. Actually, he had two. One in Umbria, and another on the coast of Italy. And he was a conte—a count. She’d be a contessa. A contessa, living in the middle of nowhere with a man she admired and respected. And a smile that warmed her heart. He was quite handsome and had that oh-so-sophisticated accent.

He lived far away, and she had no money, so Rebecca called her dearest friend, Nancy Emerson. Robert and Nancy lived in New England, where Robert ran a large, and quite prosperous corporation. He’d offered her a job numerous times, but her pride kept her from taking his charity. Now she had no pride left, so she took a temporary position with Sanderson Industries to make enough money for the trip to Europe.

In the spring of 1930, Rebecca and her mother boarded a ship to sail to Italy.

About the Book

Her life is in a downhill plunge.

Rebecca Lewis is a reluctant bride-to-be. Marrying Riccardo Alverá, a young Italian count, may seem like a dream come true on the surface, but churning underneath is nothing but trouble, questions, and doubt. Especially since the marriage means leaving the only home she's ever known, possibly for the rest of her life.

The death of her globe-trotting father cements her fate, however. She and her mother have no choice but to set sail for Italy and the virtual stranger who awaits her.

The beauty and tranquility of the Alverá estate fails to ease Rebecca's heart as political unrest shakes the core of Italian society and despair entwines itself around her heart.

Will marrying an Italian count bring Rebecca the love she’s dreamed of, or doom her to relive her past mistakes?

About the Author

Betty Thomason Owens loves being outdoors. Her favorite season is spring, when she can work in the yard or take long walks, while thinking through a troublesome scene in one of her stories.

She is a multi-published, award-winning author of historical fiction, and fantasy-adventure. An active member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), she leads a critique group, and serves as vice-president/secretary of the Louisville Area group. She’s a mentor, assisting other writers, and a co-founder of Inspired Prompt, a blog dedicated to inspiring writers. She also serves on the planning committee of the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference.

Learn more about the author and her books on her author page at Write Integrity Press.

Oddly Inspiring!

by Elizabeth Noyes

Elizabeth's e-book, IMPERFECT BONDS, is on sale this week for only 99¢ at Amazon. Buy it here. 

Inspiration comes in the oddest and funniest ways.

While working on Imperfect Bonds, the third book in The Imperfect Series, I hit a snag. The story needed a scene that would show the attraction and antagonism smoldering between my two main (volatile) characters, but all I could come up with was blah-bland. I needed zip, zest, something snappy, sassy, and maybe even a tiny bit spicy.

I often keep music on in the background while I write, something soft and unobtrusive, typically classical or easy listening. On this particular morning while I struggled with the problematic scene, for whatever reason I had turned the TV to a classic country music channel. The twangy voice of Buck Owens started up in one of his number one hits—I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail.

The catchy tune captured my attention and before long I found myself belting out the lyrics along with Buck and his Buckaroos. All the while a new scene began to percolate in the back of my mind—feisty former calf-roping rodeo champion butts heads with supremely confident Navy SEAL-turned-deputy, or How to Hogtie a Deputy: 101.

The scene didn’t unfold as easily as you might imagine, though. Sometimes what you envision in your mind doesn’t translate into reality. Imagine me, a senior citizen, lying on the floor, contorting through some of scene’s antics to see if they could really work. Yeah, I laughed, too. Now, imagine my honey walking in with a worried look on his face and asking, “Do I need to call 911?”

That scene remains one of my all-time faves from the Imperfect archives. I had such a blast writing it!

About the Author

Elizabeth Noyes—professional writer, aspiring author, dedicated dreamer—lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband and best friend, Paul, who listens tirelessly while she regales him with all the tales in her head of damaged, but very human characters clamoring to be heard.

A native of the Deep South, she claims to still “speak the language,” even after traveling around the world for most of her adult life. Recently retired from a career as a professional business writer and editor, she now fills her days editing, critiquing, reading, playing with the grandkids, learning more about Social Media than she ever wanted, and putting her stories into words to share with others.

Learn more about Elizabeth at her author page on www.WriteIntegrity.com/authors

Royal Romance?

(Get Ruth's THE PROPER CARE AND FEEDING OF SINGLES for only 99¢!)

I’m not super interested in the personal lives of modern English royalty, but even I heard about the recent wedding between American actress Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Coincidentally, I was even awake during the ceremony and watched them exchange vows via Twitter livestream. It was also via Twitter that I learned how the two met: they were set up by friends!

In the course of surveying other singles for my book The Proper Care and Feeding of Singles, I discovered that most of us aren’t necessarily opposed to set-ups. While we’re sometimes annoyed by our friends’ tactics, we generally appreciate the care and concern. Taking this into account, I added a section to my book recommending a simple, four-step process to help foster killer set-ups. (Note: I’m using the term killer metaphorically here. Please don’t set your friends up with killers. English princes are fine.)

I’m on the cusp of forty and still single. Over the years, I’ve experienced my share of set-ups; and while I used to think I hated them, it turns out I’m only opposed to awkward set-ups with incompatible people forced upon me by well-meaning acquaintances. That’s why Step One in my four-step process is to build good relationships with singles.

Set-ups works best when you now both sides of the equation well enough to judge shared interests, compatibility, and spiritual sensitivity. Once you know your single friends that well, you’re in a good place to set them up with any member of English royalty you so desire.

Providing they’re also single, of course.

Ruth's phenomenal THE PROPER CARE AND FEEDING OF SINGLES is available this week for only 99¢ (Kindle) at Amazon!

About the Author

Ruth Buchanan is a Christian freelance writer who holds degrees in ministry and theology.
After years of classroom teaching in the United States and overseas, she left education to
pursue creative endeavors. She currently produces fiction, non-fiction, dramas, and a regular succession of fussy little to-do lists.

Learn more about Ruth at her author page on WriteIntegrity.com

Another Award-Winning Week!

Things keep getting better!

FIRST: Two of our award-winning authors are giving away print versions of their books! Sign up below for the Goodreads contest - this week only.

Goodreads Book Giveaway The Revisionary by Kristen Hogrefe Giveaway ends June 17, 2018. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

Goodreads Book Giveaway Imperfect Lies by Elizabeth Noyes Giveaway ends June 17, 2018. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

AND: We have yet another award-winner! Cynthia Toney's middle-grade historical adventure, THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM, is available this week only at a $2 discount. The e-book is only $2.99 and the print book is only $9.99 (but Amazon is being a little slow in showing that changed price - make sure you buy it when the price is correctly reduced)!

In honor of Father's Day, this children's story about a dad and his son! Perfect!

We're also continuing with our "We Love Our Readers" sales and this week's book is the humor-filled inspirational FAUX PAS. Such a fun story.

And we shared a hysterical article from the author in our newsletter. If you don't get our weekly newsletters, by all means, sign up! You'll not only get info on our coming and sale books, but every week offers a short note from one of our authors and some insight into their worlds.

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Special Sale for TWO OF THE BEST!

Use the book covers below as your buy links.

     
We've got TWO big things to share with you!

First, if you aren't on the Write Integrity Press newsletter, you might want to join right away. We're putting together a preview collection of almost two solid years worth of books! We're also including our new and coming stories in the collection. You'll want to enjoy that - free to all of our newsletter readers.

Join our newsletter HERE!

The second thing we have to share with you is about TWO BOOKS - two of our Award-Winners! Write Integrity Press is blessed with outstanding authors in all genres - both fiction and non-fiction. And several of them have won awards! Two of those, THE REVISIONARY and IMPERFECT LIES, won recent prestigious awards. They will be the subject of our sale this week.

Not only will they be discounted to $2.99, but ALL the other books by the same authors, Kristen Hogrefe and Elizabeth Noyes, will be discounted to only 99¢ for the week! Here's your chance to put together the makings for a whole series!

Next week, we'll step back into our regular sales! Stay tuned for some outstanding fiction on sale this month even beyond our wonderful award-winners!

In Our Midst!

Black Mountain, NC - We've had many award-winning books and authors over the past few years, but this is the first SELAH AWARD!

We're all so glad and excited for Kristen Hogrefe! Her book is OUTSTANDING! In fact, so outstanding that she didn't win only one award at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference Banquet last night; she won TWO!

She also won the SELAH Director's Choice Award for THE REVISIONARY!

We are so proud to see Write Integrity Press on the award slide and tickled for Kristen, but we aren't the least bit surprised! This book ... the whole series ... is stellar!

A Revisionary rewrites the rules.

A Rogue breaks them.

Which one is she?

Nineteen-year-old Portia Abernathy plans to earn a Dome seat and rewrite the Codex rules to rescue her exiled brother. Her journey demands answers from the past civilization, but uncovering the truth means breaking the rules she set out to rewrite.

Where will the world be in 2149? If citizens forget their past, they will be lost in an identity crisis. That's exactly the state of the American Socialists United (ASU). This dystopian story opens in Cube 1519, a ghetto where the only use for obsolete cell phones is to throw them like rocks at mongrels. Portia and her father survive like many other citizens, with no electricity or technology and no expectation for a better life.

Yet Portia remembers her brother Darius—before he was taken from her. Now that's she's graduated, she determines to get him back. She thinks earning a Dome seat as a Revisionary candidate will be her ticket to rewriting the Codex and reversing his sentence. However, when she receives her draft and arrives at the Crystal Globe University for training, she discovers the world is very different outside her cube and that prisoners like Darius aren't the only ones trapped by the system.

Written for young adults, THE REVISIONARY offers a suspenseful plot, flashbacks to America's Revolutionary era, and rediscovery of the founding values needed to rebuild Portia's unraveling world. "In school, teens hear that if they don't learn from history's lessons, they're destined to repeat them," author Kristen Hogrefe says. "Portia lives in a world where leaders wield ignorance to control citizens. Only when Portia sets out to rescue her brother does she realize the lie she's been living and determines to break free."

Blockbuster novels like The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Giver popularized the dystopian YA genre. THE REVISIONARY builds a dystopia of a different kind—one that looks backward to find wisdom to move forward to offer an underlying message of heritage and hope.

Download your copy of THE REVISIONARY. (Affiliate link) And while you're at it, get THE REVOLUTIONARY (Affiliate link) too! 

Teacher Appreciation

by Cynthia T. Toney

6 DATES TO DISASTER is only 99¢ this week!

Teacher Appreciation Week in May got me thinking about the vast differences in ways that teachers are portrayed in some of today’s teen and YA novels, compared to others.

And the ways that students treat teachers in fiction and in real life.

Just as teenagers don’t always show appreciation or respect for their parents, they likewise don’t always show the same for their teachers.

To anyone who has parented or taught teens, their seeming neglect in expressing gratitude or fondness for their teachers might be chalked up to teens’ inability or discomfort in expressing their emotions. In some families, children are taught— directly or indirectly—not to express their feelings. Fear of ridicule or rejection keeps their emotions bottled up, tender or not. And I’ve known families where no one says “Thank you,” not even to non-family members who perform a favor for them.

But what do teens reveal about their feelings in a survey? Well, that’s another matter.

The website StageofLife.com “has spent years working with tens of thousands of teens to pull exclusive statistics” about them. A 2015 survey of high school and college students was conducted to determine whether or not teachers had affected their lives.

The survey found that 98.6% felt a teacher had positively impacted them. Although 64.5% said a teacher had negatively impacted their lives, apparently most survey takers had at least one of the type of teacher we wish for all students. Surprisingly, 81% reported giving their teachers recognition or showing gratitude for positively impacting them. Such affirmation might range from a simple thank you to a gift to a nomination for Teacher of the Year. It’s hard to know for certain but reassuring that even when teens don’t learn to express gratitude or fondness at home, they still might open their hearts to a teacher.  

For some teenagers, an unfortunate reality is that a teacher may be the only recognizable positive adult influence in a teen’s life. Thank goodness for teachers who can provide guidance when a child’s parent is absent in one form or another.

But for those of us who do our best in parenting our child, we still might try to get to know his or her teachers. (In spite of my busy life, I wish I had made more of an effort when my daughter was in school.) The result would be beneficial in multiple ways. The parent would set an example for the child by demonstrating regard for the teacher as a fellow human being with his or her own physical and emotional well-being and limitations.  The parent would learn first-hand if the teacher reflects the parent’s values and beliefs and could then monitor the student’s work for that teacher if the parent has any concern. Parent and child could have deeper discussions beyond “How was school today?” With the establishment of a real parent-teacher relationship, at first sign of a teen’s academic or behavioral trouble, or complaint about a teacher’s behavior, the parent has a starting place grounded in mutual respect—or at least knowledge of each other.

In the third novel of the Bird Face series, 6 Dates to Disaster, the main character relies on a favorite teacher for guidance in helping a classmate. All of the series books show teachers in a positive light. I wish more teen novels did so. Not that bad teachers don’t exist. But if all the books that teens read portray teachers as selfish, lazy, ignorant, sex-crazed, or mean, how will that affect their respect for good teachers?

Perhaps a teen you know and care about has benefited from the guidance of a caring teacher. It doesn’t have to be a teen in your family but perhaps one in your community who has had no other adult to guide him. That teen young man or young woman might need your suggestions in showing appropriate appreciation for his or her teacher.

I wish I’d shown more appreciation toward my own teachers when I had them.

James 3:1 ESV

“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.”

A Whole Series in a Matter of Weeks!

If you weren't part of the Laramie on the Lam lovers when this series first debuted, you'll love its Second Edition! Perfect for read-alouds or first chapter books for emergent readers! And active kids, both boys and girls, will enjoy the crazy adventures that Laramie cooks up! 

Get ready, get set! Write Integrity Press is primed to release an entire series in a month an a half. Every week, you'll be able to grab the next middle-grade adventure episode in the Laramie on the Lam series! With six books in all, your youngsters will enjoy an entire summer of reading!

Here's the first, with its release this week! Book 1 - LARAMIE AND THE LAW (Wyoming) Releasing May 14 in e-book and print versions. On Amazon!

Boy on the Run

The LARAMIE ON THE LAM series teaches youngsters:

• The importance and value of depending on their parents, and the joys of visiting interesting, historic, and scenic places around our country. 
• How to get along with others—even if an "other" is an enemy. 
• The comfort of knowing God is always watching over. 

Laramie Wyoming is not a typical 11-year-old boy—unless typical is being chased by bank robbers all across America!

Eleven-year-old Laramie Wyoming thought he was being polite by holding the door for the men coming out of the bank. But when one of them slips $30,000 into Laramie’s backpack, his world begins to spin out of control.

To make matters worse, Laramie’s family decides to buy a motorhome and travel the country for the next year so his mom can gather research for her travel books. That part sounds like fun, but Laramie is stunned to find out his parents are taking in Prentiss Williams, Laramie’s worst enemy and the meanest kid in school, as a foster child. A year in a motorhome with Prentiss Williams? What were his parents thinking? Laramie would be black and blue the entire year. How will he survive?

The thieves are determined to get that $30,000 back. Even though the money is reported to the police and no longer in Laramie’s possession, the robbers want their loot and will go to any lengths to retrieve it even chasing Laramie, his little sister Cheyenne, Prentiss, and Laramie’s parents all across the United States to get it.

The boys visit and explore across the country and they’re chased the whole way (but have some mysterious help). Read how Laramie and Prentiss outwit, outrun, and battle it out with the thieves during their tumultuous year while learning interesting, historical and just plain cool facts about each location along the way.

Doesn't Springtime Inspire!

The newness of this season has certainly spread through Write Integrity Press. Not only do we have some outstanding coming books, we have THREE new authors for you to meet! Please allow us to introduce ...

Alexandra Jensen has been inspired by her teaching career to pen a book of encouragement for other teachers and women of God.  Learn More about Alexandra Lisa Mayer will begin releasing a seven-book YA fantasy series in the flavor of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles early next year. Learn More about Lisa Julie B. Cosgrove is debuting a brand new cozy mystery series involving ancestry searches, hidden secrets among the branches. Learn More about Julie

Coming releases for April and May! Heartwarming stories with animal antics and historical tidbits that will have your kids wanting to read it again and again! Bolivian Missionary, Peggy Cunningham encourages women in health both physically and spiritually. Thirty-one devotions for a month of inspiration. Missionary doctor, Brock Whitfield's faith and obedience are put to the ultimate test as God brings the perfect person into his life and then asks him to give her up.

It's Looking to STORM!

Fay Lamb's newest book releases tomorrow! Happy Early Release Day! 

And you can enjoy the gift!

Here's the short version of this outstanding romantic saga!

How can one man save the town he loves when he’s the reason for the destruction?

Serenity Key, Florida, has seen its share of hurricanes, but this time, one foul weather system is about to collide with another storm, and this one has nothing to do with atmospheric pressure.

David New has guarded his secrets for years, but when two brothers, John and Andy Ryan, arrive in town and he gets news that the daughter he’s never told anyone about has disappeared, possibly the victim of a heinous crime, and the lives of many of the town residents begin to unravel in the gale force consequences of Jake’s past, he has nowhere else to turn.

God is the only one Who can calm the storms, but can David and the good folks of Serenity Key survive until He does?

A tempest has been brewing for thirty years, with only one island town in its path.

STORMS IN SERENITY, book 1 of her new Serenity Key series, is on a pre-order special for only $2.99 today. That's almost half-off for the e-book and tomorrow, the discount will be gone! Pre-orders are sent upon release at midnight tonight.

Get the Deal HERE!