NEWSAugust 26th, 2010 Would you like a signed copy of Good Morning Beautiful? Come out and meet author Paulette George at the following events: *** August 25th, 2010 Ambassador author Mimi Keener will be participating in the third annual Upstate Women's Show. The three day event features fashion, accessorizing, cooking, reading, health, decorating and more. Mimi will be signing copies of her book, The Best of Friends, from noon until 4pm during all three days of the show. Visit Mimi in the Writer's Block area Thursday, August 26 through Saturday, August 28. *** August 20th, 2010 In 30 years of publishing Ambassador International has worked with many authors. But, this month marks a first for us as we signed two sisters, each with their own historical novel. But that's just the beginning-- stay tuned for more information about these upcoming releases. *** August 13th, 2010If you're a resident of Arizona be sure to be on the lookout for Cathy Huffman as she tours the state to promote her new children's book, The Legend of Painted Pony. *** Watch for Paulette George and her book Good Morning Beautiful as they will be featured in this Oct/Nov issue of She Magazine. Congratulations Paulette. *** August 10th, 2010 Coming this September: POWER GRID by Art Adkins, this intense fiction thriller is set to launch with a bang. Join Art at one of his upcoming events: http://www.artadkins.com/events.html *** July 30th, 2010 Ink Swift, a division of Emerald House Group, is thrilled to announce that Kevin Mills of Texas is the winner of the Ink Essential publishing package giveaway! The giveaway was held last month to mark the launch of our great new site,InkSwift.com. Watch for Kevin's title 101 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep coming this winter. Kevin is working hard on his marketing planand completing the final draft of his book. This book will be a great resource for anyone welcoming new babies! Kevin - congratulations from the Ink Swift team. ***July 29th, 2010 Throughout the July you may have heard Rodney Ballance a time or two. Congratulations to Rodney as he promoted his book on around 30 different stations including The Mel Robbins show. *** July 25th, 2010 Firm Foundations is now officially released. Author Liz Morrisey gave the title an official kick off on Your Carolina's morning broadcast. Your Carolina is seen by thousands in North and South Carolina each morning on CBS affiliate WSPA. *** July 13th, 2010Ambassador author Paulette George with daughter Christina on the Morning Blend talking about their book: Good Morning Beautiful: http://www.themorningblend.com/videos/97407064.html *** June 29, 2010 Author Paulette George signed copies of her new book Good Morning Beautiful at the International Christian Retail Show on Tuesday, June 29. Paulette was joined by her daughter Christina, who is pictured on the cover of the book. The book chronicles Christina's journey with seizures and epilepsy, explaining how a diet with roots in scripture healed her. Learn more at PauletteGeorge.net.
*** June 29, 2010 Authors E. Ray Moore and Gail Pinckney Moore signed copies of their newly released book, The Promise of Jonadab at the International Christian Retail Show in St. Louis. The book, published by Ambassador International, encourages Christian families not only to stand but to pass the torch of their faith securely throughout generations. The authors are planning upcoming events in the South Carolina area. The details will be announced soon.
*** June 28, 2010 *** June 18, 2010 You are invited to our Premier Event being held at The ART Lounge Gallery on June 25th, from 1-3PM.
*** June 18, 2010 Take the time to do something good today. Ambassador International author, Laken Lovely, has an idea in the running for a $25,000 grant for the Pepsi Refresh Everything campaign. Her little brother, Charlie Lovely (co author of Through Charlie’s Eyes), founded The LiveLovely Foundation, the recipient of the $25,000 grant, which will be used to enhance quality of life for adolescent and young adult cancer patients through the funding of clinical trials specifically for their age group. Please go to this link:http://www.refresheverything.com/ayasurvivalgap and cast your vote today! Just one click can help The LiveLovely Foundation save lives, to learn more about their mission visit ww.livelovely.org. *** May 18, 2010
*** April 27, 2010: The Southern Writer's Festival in Alabama was held by Barnes and Noble on Saturday, April 17th and featured author Laken Lovely and her book, Through Charlie's Eyes. The festival welcomed several of the areas well-known authors and allowed them a forum to discuss their stories with one another as well as with their readers.
*** April 15, 2010: *** April 6, 2010: Ambassador International is excited to release details of the newest addition to the Wild Rose series – Sword of the Wild Rose. This great prequel will pull the story together. Ambassador is also working on several other new titles for spring 2010 release including Life is Fluid is a new women’s devotional by author Marcy Lytle. This book will be ideal for women’s study groups. Poppy Porcupine is a sweet, fun children’s book on obedience. *** Also coming this year from Ambassador International, The Shamrock and Peach, a fantastic Irish/Southern fusion cookbook. Learn more about the author Judith McLoughlin at http://www.theulsterkitchen.com/ . Finance expert Rodney Balance will be releasing The Love of Money: How to Build Wealth Without Being Corrupted. *** April 5, 2010: Take a journey through the Upstate and see our local Presbyterian churches through the new book Firm Foundations. See their beauty and hear their stories from long ago. This beautiful hardback book covers the rich history of the Presbyterian churches that were founded in the 1700s and 1800s.??This book will make a perfect gift for family and friends as well as an attractive piece to set on your coffee table. Learn stories about your churches you never knew and see pictures of the past and present. It is now available for pre-order for just $19.99. The release date is set for May. *** April 3, 2010: Look for Ambassador author Mimi Keener in the April issue of Belle Magazine. Mimi is the focus of this month’s “Girl Talk” column, answering questions about her children’s book, The Best of Friends. The magazine is distributed throughout the Upstate of South Carolina. *** April 1, 2010: Ambassador International is finalizing the details of a big event for author Paulette George. Paulette will be holding events in May at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital to promote her new book Good Morning Beautiful. The goal of the book is to help families with children suffering from seizures. *** January 15, 2010: Ambassador International is excited to announce the launch of Maybe Someday, new fiction from author Ede Clarkes. Clarkes, a resident of China, returned to the states to promote her Gottago.cc and her book with signings in Coos Bay, Oregon; San Jose, California; Missoula, Montana; and Birmingham, Alabama. Each event had great attendance and Barnes and Noble even opened up speaking opportunities at their stores. *** January 14, 2010: Author Laken Lovely set to appear in Birmingham, Alabama with Books-A-Million and also in Lexington, Kentucky with Joseph Beth Booksellers. She is promoting her book Through Charlie’s Eyes. *** January 13, 2010: Residents near Texas should keep an eye out for author Raymond Burroughs, promoting his book God Smiles for Me. He has already had signing events with Sonday in Lake Jackson, an article in the Facts paper, a Barnes and Noble Houston event. He also has several speaking engagements lined up with churches and study groups. *** January 12, 2010: Ambassador International congratulates author Grace Fabian, who is set to appear as a featured guest on the nationally broadcast program Bible Answer Man with Hank Hanegraaff. Fabian will discuss her new book, Outrageous Grace. Fabian also will be having a signing event with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Orlando, FL. *** November 2, 2009: Charlie Lovely's big sister, Ambassador author Laken Lovely, fulfilled an important promise to him on what would have been his 17th birthday, October 30, 2009. Charlie's inspirational journey as a teen living with cancer, which he asked his big sister to share with the world, is titled Through Charlie's Eyes and was released at Waldenbooks in Jasper, Alabama. Charlie's family and friends released balloons in honor of his special day to close the event. The manager of Waldenbooks commented that Charlie's book launch was the largest they had ever seen at their store. Laken only hopes to continue the success and share Charlie's story with everyone while supporting his foundation, LiveLovely. For a limited time use coupon code TCE25 to save 25% on your purchase of this new title in the Ambassador International online book store. *** October 26, 2009: On the heels of a multi-city Iowa book launch tour, Ambassador author Mimi Keener signed copies of her new book, The Best of Friends, at two Greenville events this past weekend. The first event was held Friday night at the Barnes and Noble on Woodruff Road. Mimi sold dozens of copies of her book, a children's book about growing up on an Iowa farm. At the second event Mimi joined other Greenville-based authors on Saturday for a book signing at the Barnes and Noble store on Haywood Road in Greenville. For more information about Mimi Keener and her book The Best of Friends visit www.MimiKeenerBooks.com. *** October 10, 2009: On October 30 Charlie Lovely turned 16. On October 31 he was diagnosed with cancer. Over the following months Charlie chronicled his battle to live both on video and in a journal. Keeping a promise she made to her little brother, Laken Lovely turned his journals into a memoir, telling the world his story, an account told Through Charlies Eyes. The book hits store shelves on October 30, the day Charlie would have turned 17. It is available for pre-order now for $11.99.
*** *** September 21, 2009: Ambassador International author Ruth Carmichael Ellinger released a new book trailer of her highly successful novels, The Wild Rose of Lancaster and The Wild Rose of Promise. Ruth's third book, Sword of the Wild Rose, is expected to be released in early 2010.
*** September 20, 2009: Ambassador International title The Brontes: Veins Running Fire was recently reviewed in The Official Journal of the Bronte Society. Below is a portion of this review, completed by UK Editor Bob Duckett:
The Brontes: Veins Running Fire is a story well told. It is lucid, clearly structured, factually accurate, set well in the context of its time, and provides good psychological insights. The author’s motive is clearly stated and is pursued with vigour. Bingham reports that he was ‘stung into writing’ by ‘Toby Stephens, who brilliantly played Rochester in the [2006] BBC production, [who] stated that “where modern readers sometimes dislike Jane’s moralizing digressions as the novel’s narrator, this new adaption has relieved her of that.” I was aghas’. Bingham believes Jane Eyre ‘to be one of the most powerful pieces of literature ever written in defense of the sanctity of marriage. It is moralizing at its greatest and most creative level’ (p.15) Anne Bronte’s chapter, ‘The Cottage’, in Agnes Grey is also a fine moral piece of writing. Additionally, Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights is a strong moralizing influence. On this stance the author is to be commended, not so much that one may (or may not) agree with his viewpoint, but that it was the viewpoint of the Brontes themselves. The Brontes had a strong evangelical Christian upbringing and the author clearly situates them in this context. At times the puritan evangelical background seems overdone, with digressions into the loves of like-minded Christian thinkers such as Charles Simeon and substantial quotations from the likes of Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning. Up to a point, this framing is a strength; it gives the reader the wider cultural context, the context with which the Brontes themselves were familiar and which informed their thinking. Patrick’s early years in Ireland are well done with good background into the Society of United Irishmen, Betsy Gray (Ulster’s own ‘Joan of Arc’) and the rebels such as Patrick’s own brother, William Brunty. The character and civilizing influence of Thomas Tighe (‘the father of Irish evangelism’) is well contrasted with the general lawlessness of the early eighteenth century. Wesley was friend of Tighe, and there was a spiritual awakening with Lutheranism and Pietism which influenced the young Patrick. These Wesleyan and evangelical connections were strengthened with Patrick’s exposure to the influences of Henry Martin, Charles Simeon, William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect. We are usefully reminded of the foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Church Missionary Society, both of which Patrick championed when he moved to the West Riding. We are also reminded, or possibly learn for the first time, that Patrick was offered a post in Matinique but he preferred to evangelize in the needy northern English cities. Detailed attention is paid to Patrick’s poems and his prose writing – works often glossed over. They demonstrate Patrick’s idealism, his social conscience, and awareness of political events. The Cottage in the Wood is suggested as a seedbed of ideals for the later novels of Patrick’s daughters, with the anti Catholic sentiment in The Maid of Killarney having an influence Charlotte. The Haworth background is well drawn: Grimshaw, Whitfield, Wesley, the Countess of Huntingdon, and the controversy over Patrick’s appointment to the Haworth curcay. Bingham is good on using recent research to describe Haworth as an industrial and cultivated place – not the Gaskell caricature. He has a good understanding of local topography. The early careers of Charlotte and Anne are well descried, with particular attention to their spiritual crises. ‘Patrick was right at the heart of the reforming evangelical movement’ and the theological niceties between father and daughters are well described. Bingham is sensitive on interpersonal relationships; in particular on the relationship between Patrick and Charlotte where, unlike some recent writers, he suggested Patrick encouraged Charlotte to ‘live a little’ in the early 1850s. Charlotte’s and Patrick’s position on social issues and their views on contempory intellectual debates are charted. Patrick’s work as an active social campaigner is frequently quoted while in 1854 both are found campaigning for Crimean War relief. The Christian message for the twenty-first century is spelled out in the novels: Jane Eyre’[…] is a novel which explores in detail the very nature of Christianity itself, particularly Christian morality’ (p.121) and Villette has a lot more morality in it than I ever suspected! I enjoyed the read and found the evangelical standpoint refreshing and thought-provoking. ‘[T]he unimaginable fortitude that surfaces in a family facing sorrow upon sorrow, tragedy upon tragedy, is hugely inspiring’ (p.17) Indeed, this is a story well told. I recommend this book and congratulate the author on his initiative. *** September 3, 2009: Ambassador International title Your Right Job Right Now is featured in the September/October issue of Business Black Box.The "Between the Pages" column writes this about the book: "Interesting, especially if you're interested in finding a job where you truly belong, or even just looking to get a new perspective on the job you have." ***
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