Contact: Mary's Lamb Publishing, 517-547-3656
MEDIA ADVISORY, Aug. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- Scotland's J.K. Rowling, the unknown author who claimed to create Harry Potter from her imagination, stirred up America by exposing our children to spells, witchcraft and wizardry. Now an American author is stirring up the answer, exposing our children to true secrets, myths and miracles, introducing J.C. Lamb who came not from the imagination, but from a sacrifice and a vision from God.
On July 15th, 2008, Mary's Lamb Publishing debuted their first "Give & Share Book(TM)" titled The Secret of Yahweh! at the International Christian Retail Show, and it proved to be an instant favorite. The line that formed to meet the author and get a copy of her book was one not usually seen for an unknown author, (especially one whose testimony claims she is "not much of a writer.") LeFerna Arnold-Walch, has become a leading authority on the unchurched family since her son's car crashed into a church in 1998. "My firstborn son's coma was the sacrifice it took to open my eyes to God's plan for me. Now I have a promise to keep," she says. The author and veteran entertainer also has radio and television experience, and will be a recommended guest for talk shows across America in an August 2008 issue of Radio and TV Interview Report Magazine. What makes her Christian children's novel newsworthy and unique is not only that it stands up for our "under God" Christian history in the USA, or that it introduces a character whose mission is to reach 100 million unchurched Americans, but that each book creates twelve new or reaffirmed disciples for Christ when the circle goes unbroken and the book is returned. A new family reading experience that has people calling J.C. Lamb in The Secret of Yahweh! Give & Share Book(TM) the Christian parent's answer to the Harry Potter phenomenon.
A "magical" book with secrets the author didn't see coming - Instead of a lightning bolt on the forehead, J.C. Lamb wears the sign of the fish on his chest, right over his heart. He's magical because God sent him as a messenger in a vision from a song. Instead of using wands and witchcraft, children learn how to spiritually see with their hearts by believing in things they cannot always see with their own eyes-- trouble is, they can't all see J.C. Lamb, either! When LeFerna finished the first book draft, the title was Meet J.C. This was before she felt led to rewrite the true names of God and Jesus into "Mystery Sunday" and change the title to The Secret of Yahweh!. After this change, strange things began to happen. It was as if the secrets to the novel extended beyond the pages of the book. Her first surprise was the way this twist on Mary's Little Lamb seemed to be attracting adult readers claiming to learn something new from this children's story about Christianity. This was quite a complement for someone who claims to have spent the first 40 years of her life "wandering in the wilderness" of the unchurched. LeFerna thought she was writing for ages 7 to 12, adding over 100 illustrations so parents would read it with their younger children, but the library refused to stock the book, claiming it didn't have an age category at all. LeFerna then revised the book with it's own lending program for church members to use as a tool to reach out to all ages, seeing to whom and how far the book travels before coming back, (some being sent overseas to our soldiers). Mary's Lamb Publishing predicts tweens will enjoy sharing J.C. Lamb books the most, but as school draws near, college students seem to love J.C. Lamb, too and want to start their own circles on campus; picking up on the slogan; "Do you know the secret yet?"
A novel for the 'child of God' in all of us. - Available to booksellers through Ingram/Spring Arbor and also available online.
Jesus tells us in the book of Mark to "be like little children." What a great way to learn about Christianity or reaffirm your faith! -- read this Christian children's novel and see if J.C. Lamb in The Secret of Yahweh! really is the "answer" people say it is.
You may contact LeFerna for speaking engagements or book signings at leferna@maryslambinc.com or call 1-888-MARYSLAMB.
