Reader’s Favorite Award Winner – A Rabbit’s Tale An Easter Story

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What an honor to receive the Reader’s Favorite Book Award! I met many wonderful fellow authors at the awards ceremony in Miami. Thank you to everyone at Reader’s Favorite for doing such a fine job organizing the event. Authors traveled from as far as Spain to receive their award.

If you have not yet read A Rabbit’s Tale, An Easter Story, pick up a copy and check it out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BEIQYPC.

 

A Rabbit’s Tale – Global Ebook Award Winner & Readers’ Choice 5 Stars

A Rabbit’s Tale has received the 2015 Global Ebook Award in the category of Christian Fiction and has also received 5 stars from Readers’ Favorite. The book cover has been revised to include these honors. The updated cover also features the image of a fluorescent greenish-yellow hand and a letter which represent an important point in the story.
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Hippity-Hop, This Tale is Over the Top

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I had to share this awesome review by John Howard Prin.
5.0 out of 5 stars Hippity-Hop, This Tale is Over the Top, April 20, 2015
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This review is from: A Rabbit’s Tale an Easter Story (Praying Mantis Series Book 1) (Kindle Edition)

Open this book and you are in for an egg-citing treat. Settle back as you turn the pages of this superb story and rest easy knowing you’re in for a jubilee of enjoyment.

A Rabbit’s Tale offers a wonderfully funny, and at times laugh-out-loud hilarious, story of ingenious twists and turns. The author has assembled a rich cast of characters, sympathetically drawn in the case of hero Juan Arias and dastardly villainous as personified by Monty McPride, who messes things up in grand fashion. The array of humanity in these pages spans the spectrum of likeable to detestable.

The storyline is a roller-coaster ride of humorous flashes of comedy and touching moments of tender pathos. Its many twists and surprises kept me guessing about how seemingly unrelated events would weave together, but Ruiz proved himself to be a gifted storyteller.

I especially enjoyed the story’s outrageous central premise, a leap of fantasy based on a stupendous “what-if.” Juan’s trials and tribulations are those of an everyman, an ordinary and decent fellow who dresses up as the Easter Bunny for a kids’ party and has a medical emergency which catapults the antics into high gear.

In keeping with the Easter themes of death by crucifixion and miraculous resurrection, the author presents episodes in Juan’s life when his plight parallels that of his hero Jesus — times when everything turns dark and bleak, but then by some unexpected plot twist or quirk of character the divine light of hope shines brightly and saves the day.

Highly creative, wildly imaginative, tremendously enjoyable — this tall tale has the makings of a classic.

Birds of Passage Anthology Helps Fight Poverty

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I’m thrilled to be working on a story for the Birds of Passage anthology along with a great group of authors. All proceeds from the book will go to Passage Home a non-profit 501-c3, to help in their fight as they lift people out of the grip of poverty.  For more information visit http://edgychristianfiction.com/2015/07/31/anthology/