Check out Ray Keating's Latest Authors and Entrepreneurs Podcast, Episode 36: 5 Minutes on the Need for Another Set of Eyes on Your Book

Ray Keating explains why you need another set of eye to take a close, critical look at your book or other writing project. But it is critical to get someone who you can trust to produce constructive feedback and ideas. After all, everybody has an opinion and most are quite willing to tell you what they think, but is their feedback based on experience and is it constructive? 

Keating goes on to explain that he now provides manuscript assessment and feedback for authors, offering thorough thoughts and suggestions, such as on story, plot, characters, dialogue, clarity, consistency and structure. This kind of constructive feedback is critical for authors and entrepreneurs. Listen at http://www.buzzsprout.com/147907/1116581-episode-36-5-minutes-on-the-need-for-another-set-of-eyes-on-your-book

Reagan Country Called "Best Yet"

5 stars for REAGAN COUNTRY...

Summer reading with Ray Keating and Pastor Stephen Grant.
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First Sales Goal Reached on LIONHEARTS - Thanks!

Consider Joining the Pastor Stephen Grant Fellowship!

I hope you will consider supporting/joining the Pastor Stephen Grant Fellowship!

Here's the basic information on joining at the "Reader" level.

Go to www.patreon.com/pastorstephengrantfellowship

Ray Keating's Authors and Entrepreneurs Podcast Episode #3: Partner with the Big Guys

Episode #3: Partner with the Big Guys like Amazon and Facebook

Readers, authors and entrepreneurs shouldn't hate the "big guys," like Amazon.com and Facebook. Instead, readers, authors and entrepreneurs should learn to love the big guys as partners. Leverage their bigness to your own benefit as authors and entrepreneurs, and to the benefit of your readers.

Listen at http://www.buzzsprout.com/147907/629969-episode-3-partner-with-big-guys-like-amazon-and-facebook, or via iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ray-keatings-authors-and-entrepreneurs-podcast/id1335700610.

Christmas-New Year's Specials!

Christmas-New Year’s Specials on Signed Pastor Stephen Grant Novels at www.raykeatingonline.com

Time has never been better to order Pastor Stephen Grant novels – featuring the pastor who used to be a Navy SEAL and with the CIA – signed by Ray Keating. These thrillers/mysteries – LIONHEARTS, WINE INTO WATER, MURDERER’S ROW, THE RIVER, AN ADVENT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, ROOT OF ALL EVIL? and WARRIOR MONK – have received major thumbs up from both reviewers and readers.

Consider these sales and specials…

• Order two full signed sets by New Year’s Day, and Ray will name a character after you, or someone else you choose, in an upcoming book.

• Price of a full signed sets of all seven novels has been slashed to $69.99 from $88.99.

• Get started with the first three books with the Pastor Stephen Grant Trilogy #1, with the price cut to $33.99 from $40.99.

• The second three books in the series make up the Pastor Stephen Grant Trilogy #2, and that price is now $34.99, down from $42.99.

• The price on the latest book – LIONHEARTS – has been reduced to $14.99 from $16.99.

• Indeed, all seven books are on sale individually as well.

Take the advice of Pastor Rod Zwonitzer, retired host of KFUO's "BookTalk," who not only said, “Ray Keating is a great novelist,” but also advised in a review: “Buy it! Read it! Enjoy it! Gift it!"

Go to www.raykeatingonline.com

New Pastor Stephen Grant Novel Coming Soon!

BIG NEWS: New Pastor Stephen Grant Novel by Ray Keating on the Way! LIONHEARTS: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL will be published soon. 

(The business cards, as you can see in the picture, already have arrived.)

How can you get LIONHEARTS two weeks earlier than the rest of the world, and have it signed by the author? Become a “Bronze Reader” in the Pastor Stephen Grant Fellowship.

As a “Bronze Reader,” you will receive all new novels FREE and two weeks earlier than the rest of the world – including, of course, the new LIONHEARTS. Also, you will get FREE exclusive, early reads of new Pastor Stephen Grant short stories throughout the year.

Plus, your name will be included in a special "Thank You" section in forthcoming novels, and you will get access to the private Pastor Stephen Grant Fellowship Facebook page, which includes daily journal entries from Pastor Stephen Grant, insights from other characters, regular recipes from Grillin’ with the Monks, periodic videos and live Q&A’s with Ray Keating, and more!

By the way, there are higher levels to join at, and you will receive the aforementioned benefits, plus a heck of a lot more!!

What’s the purpose of the Pastor Stephen Grant Fellowship? The hope is that an effort via Patreon.com will allow me to write more novels, short stories, guides and other works, with supporters getting first looks at everything produced, receiving special thanks in the books, and earning other assorted goodies.

Please check out the entire effort and the various levels of support at www.patreon.com/pastorstephengrantfellowship.

Summer Reading with Pastor Stephen Grant

Does Your Pastor or Priest Kick Butt?

Awesome Christian Fiction for Dudes?!

Ray Keating’s Pastor Stephen Grant novels – featuring a former Navy SEAL, onetime CIA operative and now a Lutheran pastor – have received thumbs-up reviews from far and wide. A new Amazon review raised the issue that these books might be perfect for male readers who have not found what they enjoy in other kinds of Christian fiction. The reviewer opened: “Yes! Finally! Christian fiction for dudes that’s awesome!”

He went on to write: “I absolutely loved WARRIOR MONK for many reasons. As a confessional Lutheran layperson, a guy, and avid fiction reader, the options are VERY limited for Christian-themed, Christian characters that are real, honest, authentic and human. Good Christian fiction, particularly Christian fiction for guys, has been so hard to hind - until now! Seems like 98% of all Christian fiction is written by women, for women, and are basically G-rated romance novels with a spattering of church thrown in. The 2% of Christian fiction for guys tends to be so supernatural and over-dramatic they border on science fiction or horror (think Frank Peretti or Ted Dekker).”

The reviewer continued: “Thank you, Ray, for your beautifully-written Pastor Stephen Grant novels that are real, enjoyable, thoughtful and extol a growing, sometimes struggling, but very real faith in Christ that we treasure.”

His conclusion? “I compare Keating to Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Larry Bond, and David Baldacci. WARRIOR MONK is very readable, with realistic dialogue, great plot pace, surprising and twists and turns, complex and endearing characters all with a respectfully un-cheesy Christian undertone. Ladies - Please share these books with your Christian husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers. Bravo!”

Not Your Typical Christian Fiction

Pre-Order WINE INTO WATER: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL for the Kindle

Pre-Order the Kindle Version of Ray Keating’s New Thriller WINE INTO WATER: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL.

Order now and the book will be delivered to your Kindle on October 27^th! The paperback will be available on October 27^th as well!

Blood, wine, sin, justice and forgiveness…
 Who knew the wine business could be so sordid and violent? That’s what happens when it's infiltrated by counterfeiters.
 A pastor, once a Navy SEAL and CIA operative, is pulled into action to help unravel a mystery involving fake wine, murder and revenge. Stephen Grant is called to take on evil, while staying rooted in his life as a pastor.

WINE INTO WATER is the sixth thriller in the Pastor Stephen Grant series penned by award-winning novelist Ray Keating.

https://www.amazon.com/Wine-Into-Water-Pastor-Stephen-ebook/dp/B01MCT217H/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1476324239&sr=1-2&keywords=ray+keating

BIG SALE ON SIGNED COPIES OF RAY KEATING’S PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVELS!

BIG SALE ON SIGNED COPIES OF RAY KEATING’S PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVELS!

Up to 47% off award-winning novelist Ray Keating’s Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers – MURDERER’S ROW, THE RIVER, AN ADVENT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, ROOT OF ALL EVIL? and WARRIOR MONK. These exciting, thoughtful novels focus on a onetime Navy SEAL and former CIA operative who is now a pastor. 

Previously each book sold for $12.99-$17.99. Now each is only $9.99 for a limited time, with the author’s message and signature. And all five can be purchased as a set of only $44.99 (previously sets were $75.99).

With Keating’s next thriller coming soon, this is the perfect time to see why these books have received widespread praise…

Not only was MURDERER’S ROW: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL named “Book of the Year 2015” by KFUO’s “BookTalk,” but Kirkus Reviews says, “Action fans will find plenty to love here, from gunfights and murder sprees to moral dilemmas.” For good measure, Kirkus Reviews gives a big thumbs up to THE RIVER: “A gritty, action-stuffed, well-considered thriller with a gun-toting clergyman.”

And consider from a Washington Times review written by a pastor and former CIA officer: “What Ian Fleming's 007 series has probably done for ex-MI-6 agents and Tom Clancy has done for retired CIA officers, Mr. Keating has done for the minority of former CIA agents who have served their country by working in the intelligence community, but now wish to serve God.”

Lutheran Book review declares, “I miss Tom Clancy. Keating fills that void for me.”

A Touchstone magazine review of MURDERER’S ROW says: “This is a fun read, though the embedded theology is real and salutary. There is death and life, adultery and commitment, friendship and betrayal, violence and victory over violence… Perhaps the best part of the book for the reviewer is that the clergy are good at helping people bring Christ into their vocations.”

Finally, Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief of WORLD magazine, lists Ray Keating among his top 10 Christian novelists.

GO TO

www.raykeatingonline.com

Thumbs Up for Root of All Evil?

Reader/Review Quote of the Day...

“Root of All Evil?” by Ray Keating is the second novel in his series with the character Pastor Stephen Grant. I love a book that can make me smile, frown – and maybe even wince, get teary, and laugh. The characters are realistic, lovable, relatable, and memorable.

In this installment, Pastor Stephen Grant is thrust into the middle of another sinister plot, but this time he has a new wife to worry about him. I can really relate to Jennifer Grant’s character because I am a pastor’s wife. I know how it feels to have plans interrupted by important work matters, but I can’t imagine how I would feel if I knew my husband was going off with a CIA team to apprehend a suspect in a potential gun fight.

I really enjoyed reading “Root of All Evil?” just like I really enjoyed reading “Warrior Monk.” As a Lutheran, I appreciate the worldview and Gospel proclamation in the novels. If you like crime novels, Christian fiction with more realistic to life characters (warning: some bad language, violence, and general human sinfulness), or simply good storytelling, then Ray Keating’s Pastor Stephen Grant novels are for you.

                                                      - Amazon 5-star review of ROOT OF ALL EVIL?