Henry K. Ripplinger's Blog
September 13, 2014
BC BOOKSIGNING TOUR SEPT. 17- OCT. 9, 2014
Following is a schedule for the BC tour which begins next Wednesday at the Langford Costco store on the Island.
Store 256, Langford, 799 McCullum Rd., Wed., Thursday, Sept. 17, 18 from 10-5 each day.
Store 155, Nanaimo, 6700 Island Hwy, N, Friday, Saturday, Sept. 19, 20, from 10-5 each day.
Store 548, Willington, 4500 Still Creek drive, Mon. Tuesday, Sept 22, 23, from 10-5 each day.
Store 552, Expo, 605 Expo Blvd, Wed., Thursday, Sept., 24, 25, from 10-5 each day.
Store 51, Burnaby, 3550 Brighton, Ave., Fri., Sat., Sept., 26, 27, from 10-5 each day.
Store 54, Richmond, 9151 Bridgeport Road, Mon. Tuesday, Sept., 29, 30, from 10-5 each day.
Store 259. Langley, 20499 64th Ave. , Wed., Thursday, Oct., 1, 2, from 10-5 each day.
Store 163, Abbotsford, 1127 Suma Way, Fri., Saturday, Oct. 3, 4, from 10-5 each day.
Store 161, Kamloops, 1675 Versatile Dr., Mon. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 7, from 10-5 each Day.
Store 59, Kelowna, 2479 Hwy 97 N, Wed., Thursday, Oct. 8, 9, from 10-5 each day.
Please let family and friends know that i will there next week. All those who have purchased books already and want them signed, please bring the books to the signing.
July 3, 2014
June 2, 2014
NEW BOXED SET – THE ANGELIC LETTERS SERIES
NEW BOXED SET – THE ANGELIC LETTERS SERIES
All five books in the Angelic Letters Series are now housed in an attractive slip case. The boxed sets are availabel at Henry’s in Regina and soon in Chapters, Coles, Costco and Walmart stores.
The boxed set makes an ideal gift for any occassion: birthday gift, Grad gift or a thank you gift to a special friend!
The full retail value of the boxed set of five books is $109.75. However, Henry’s and Chapters will be selling them for $89.99. Just under a 20% discount for buying the boxed set. – Henry
Views of the different sides of the new Angelic Letters Series Box Set
June 1, 2014
ALBERTA BOOK SIGNING TOUR IN COSTCO STORES JUNE 11 – JULY 10
Hi Everyone
Following is the Alberta Book Signing Tour in all Costco locations. I will be signing all five books in The Angelic Letters Series: Pewter Angels, Another Angel of Love, Angel of Thanksgiving, The Angelic Occurrence and Angel Promises Fulfilled and also introducing the boxed set of all five books.
Store 154, Edmonton North, 12450 149th St., June 11 and 12, Wednesday and Thursday.
Store 544, Sherwood Park. 2201 Broadmoor Blvd., June 13 and 14,
Friday and Saturday.
Store 1112, West Edmonton, 7259 Winterburn Road, June, 16 and 17, Monday and Tuesday.
Store 156, East Edmonton, 13650 50th St., June 18 and 19, Wednesday and Thursday.
Store 258, Edmonton South, 2616 91 St. NW, June 20 and 21.
Friday and Saturday
Store 164, Red Deer, 162 – 37400 Hwy #2, June 23 and 24, Monday and Tuesday.
Store 56, Calgary North, 2853 32nd St. NE, June 25 and 26, Wednesday and Thursday Store 1076, Rocky View, 300 – 261200 Crossiron, June 27 and 28, Friday and Saturday.
Store 543, Calgary NW, 11588 Sarcee Trail, June 29 and 30, Sunday and Monday.
NOTE: Tuesday is a holiday-Canada Day
Store 251, Calgary South, 99 Heritage Gate SE, July 2 and 3, Wednesday and Thursday Okotoks, 104 Southbank Blvd., July 4 and 5, Friday and Saturday
Store 160, Lethbridge July 7 and 8, Monday and Tuesday.
Store 593, Medicine Hat, 2350 Boxsprings Road NW, July 9 and 10,
Wednesday and Thursday.
If you have already purchased your book(s) and would like them signed and recieve a complimentary bookmark, bring your book(s)to the signing in your area.
Please let your friends and family know of the signing in Alberta.
Hope to see you there!
Henry
May 24, 2014
ANGEL PROMISES FULFILLED ON BESTSELLER LIST
Hi everyone,
The Angelic Letters series is back on the Toronto Globe and Mail Top Ten Bestseller list. Under the category of Canadian Fiction, Angel Promises Fulfilled is in third position this week!
I thank the good Lord for the gift of this story and thank you too, dear reader, for your wonderful support. Much appreciated!
Henry
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The Bestsellers Lists are compiled by The Globe and Mail from information provided by BookNet Canada’s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.
The Globe and Mail’s Canadian Fiction Best Seller’s list from May 24, 2014
SIGNING IN WINNIPEG VERY SUCCESSFUL
Hi everyone.
This is my last day of signing in Winnipeg. I will be at the Costco store at 1315 St. James from 10:00-4:00 and then heading back to Regina.
The tour in Winnipeg and the response to the new book overall in Canada is so successful that book five has now gone back for its second printing in less than a month of its release at the end of April! This may be why some stores have not had the book or were sold out.
I want to thank all the people in Winnipeg who came out to the signings at the different locations and for all new readers who are now following the series as well. I enjoyed meeting you all and had some wonderful discussions!!
I should know by next week the exact date when the second edition of book 5, Angel Promises Fulfilled will be printed and then i will announce my next touring schedule which will be in Alberta in June. So please keep checking Facebook and our blog and Publicity tab for announcements of the new touring schedule.
Thank you again everyone for reading my books, very much appreciated!!
God bless you and may your guardian angel keep you in their loving care!
Henry
May 7, 2014
Book Signings in May
Here are a list of signings for the rest of this month! Hope I get to meet you soon. More dates will be posted as they are finalized for other cities and locations. ~Henry
Regina Costco: Tuesday, Wed. Thur. May 6, 7, 8, from 10-5pm
Saskatoon Costco: Fri., Sat., Sun., May 10, 11, 12, from 10-5pm
Winnipeg Costcos:
Costco at 1499 Regent Ave. Wed., Thur., Fri., May 14, 15, 16 from 10-5
Costco at 2365 McGillivray Blvd Sat., Sun. Tues. May 17, 18, 20 from 10-5 (Note: May 19th is Victoria Day holiday)
Costco at 1315 St. James, Wed., Thur., Fri., May 21, 22, 23, from 10-5.
March 8, 2014
Pre-Order Your Copy of Angel Promises Fulfilled
Soon the long-anticipated Book 5 in the Angelic Letters Series – Angel Promises Fulfilled – will be released! Thanks to Chapters you can now pre-order both your hardcover and softcover copies! (Note: The softcover will only be released after the hardcover so it will show a later “ship” date).
To pre-order your copy today head to:
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/search/?keywords=angel+promises+fulfilled
Pre-order your copy of Angel Promises Fulfilled by clicking on the link to the Chapters/Indigo website above.
January 28, 2014
COVER OF BOOK FIVE, ANGEL PROMISES FULFILLED
Angel Promises Fulfilled – Book 5 of the Angelic Letters Series – Coming in April of 2014
PIO-SEELOS BOOKS – PRESENTS
The Cover of Book Five, Angel Promises Fulfilled
Hi Everyone
Here is the book cover of Book Five, Angel Promises Fulfilled and the blurb that will go on the back of the softcover. I have about two-three weeks left to complete the novel itself and then the editing and proof-reading begins. After that, the manuscript is typeset and sent to the printer which takes another 5 – 6 weeks. The book is scheduled to be released towards the end of April.
Thank you, Henry
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Angel Promises Fulfilled
BLURB ON Back of soft cover….
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Henry couldn’t get over the fact that he had purchased Jenny’s home! It was all there in her diary that he had just discovered the day before. How they had met in 1956 and instantly fell in love and the wonderful summer that followed, only to end when Jenny’s family moved away. Although separated for thirty-two years, their love was sustained by an angelic power that had never waned. If only he had known sooner that his teenage sweetheart was critically ill in the care home just miles away…the time they could have spent together!
Incredibly, Camilla, too, had just discovered the truth that Jenny is her birth mother and on her death bed in the care home that Henry is racing to! Fear grips Camilla at the thought of losing her mother again…will she ever find out if Henry is her birth father?
Even Father Engelmann had been astonished to learn that the Jenny he had been seeing in the care home for the past few months was the same young girl that had frequented his store so long ago – and Henry’s first love. He knew there was something special about Jenny Hamilton… but how could he possibly have known? In his final act of love and in hope that the two lovers can finally realize their deep love for one another, Father Engelmann offers his life for Jenny’s. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for a friend.
Will the Lord accept Father’s plea to take his life for Jenny’s?
Can Camilla and Henry reach Jenny in time?
And what of Jenny and her wish to her guardian angel to see her beloved Henry and Camilla before she dies? Can her angel’s solicitude to God answer Jenny’s prayer?
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Angel Promises Fulfilled, Book Five in the Angelic Letters Series, will hold your mind, heart and soul from the first page to the last.
December 10, 2013
Angelic letters strike a chord with readers
BY DARLENE POLACHIC, THE STARPHOENIX DECEMBER 7, 2013
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Henry Ripplinger has sold nearly 100,000 books.
Photograph by: Troy Fleece, Postmedia News , The Starphoenix
It is extremely rare for a Christian fiction novel to appear on the Globe & Mail’s bestselling book list, but Henry Ripplinger’s books consistently do. In 2012 and 2013, one and sometimes three of his Angelic Letters books made the Globe’s top 10.
“Christian books are a genre that seldom gets recognized on bestseller lists,” Ripplinger said. “I really consider it a miracle that these books are so well received.”
Ripplinger considers the whole thing a miracle. The Lumsden-area resident has had a varied career as a professional artist, high school teacher, guidance counsellor and businessman, but his dream was to write the ultimate self-help book.
Interestingly, the inspiration came to incorporate all he would have said in a Christian romance story. In 2005, Ripplinger began outlining what would become a six-book saga following the lives of two Regina teens, Henry and Jenny, who fall in love but are separated by circumstance and design.
The first book, Pewter Angels, was released in 2010; the second, Another Angel of Love, in 2011; the third, Angel of Thanksgiving, in 2012. The fourth, The Angelic Occurrence, came out this year, with the fifth scheduled for the spring.
These are not short books. The Angelic Occurrence finishes at 578 pages, but readers are not daunted. Even those who claim to be nonreaders are devouring every word and wishing for more.
Ripplinger receives hundreds of emails from readers.
“They identify personally with characters,” he said. “Some say the characters feel like their personal friends or family members. One woman wrote, ‘I’m on my knees praying (Henry and Jenny) will get together.’ ” Ripplinger has self-published all of his books. One reason is because his previous business experience had shown him “what it takes to be successful in the front end.” Marketing through major chains and bookstores all across Canada, he has sold nearly 100,000 copies and the demand is growing. Chapters/Indigo has a huge promotion in the works for the release of book five.
Marketing has involved exhaustive book signing tours across the country, but Ripplinger enjoys interacting with the people. “I don’t know how many times people walk by and say, ‘No thank you,’ only to return a few minutes later to say, ‘I feel compelled to buy your books.’ ”
The Angelic Letters series has taken on a life of its own, one that amazes even the author.
“I am personally overwhelmed by the response. The books are obviously touching a chord and meeting a need. I believe people are searching for meaning and purpose and direction in their lives. The real essence of this story is the life lessons revealed by the characters, especially Mr. Englemann, an endearing and wise mentor who is living out the word of God. He has become a special person in Henry’s life and in the readers’ lives as well.
“Over and over, the books stress the need to begin each day in quiet prayer and meditation, reading God’s word and absorbing his truths. When we do this, we are prepared to begin the day and grow and live with meaning and purpose.”
Ripplinger’s books have won several awards. The first book in the series, Pewter Angels, won two Gold Medal Independent Publishing Book Awards in Religious Fiction in 2001-12, and the Living Now Book Award in the Inspirational Category from the same body. His manuscript was chosen out of the 4,000 books submitted from around the globe. The second book, Another Angel of Love, won the 2012 Silver Medal Independent Publishing Book Award in Religious Fiction.
“I never considered these books to be a ministry or a ministry tool, but more as a way of getting people to think about the spiritual side of their lives,” Ripplinger said. “I must admit, when the first book was released and I began receiving emails from readers, I was amazed at how strongly people were affected by the spiritual side of the book’s contents.
The lives of the characters seem to intertwine with their own. Over and over, I hear how helpful and inspirational the books have been for readers.”
“I have come to realize that life lessons and insights are far better absorbed intellectually, spiritually and emotionally when they are revealed through a story rather than by listing a series of dos and don’ts – which I would have done had I written a self-help book in my earlier years. Clearly, the good Lord waited until I was ready and had lived through more of life’s experiences before inspiring me with this one.
“These books are fulfilling a lifelong passion I’ve had to help others find meaning, direction and purpose in their lives.”
Ripplinger’s Angelic Letters books are available locally at Costco, Indigo and McNally Robinson Booksellers. For more information, visit: www.henryripplinger. com.
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