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HOW MANY DARK HOURS HAVE WE HAD DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC?CLIFF FALLS: The Missing Pieces Edition\u00a0<\/em>ByC.B. SHIEPE<\/strong>
PUBLIUS GUEST AUTHOR:<\/u>C.B. Shiepe<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Cliff Falls:\u00a0The Missing Pieces Edition.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Shiepe’s award-winning novel CLIFF FALLS reaches a broad audience and resonates with readers who have gone over the falls in their own lives.\u00a0\u201cA palpable, gritty experience of redemption. So real. Art imitating life. Well done!\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amy Grant,\u00a0Grammy Award-winning Singer and Songwriter

What do you do when you go through a health crisis that separates you from everything you\u2019ve put your identity in? How do you find inspiration when your life seems to be falling apart? If you ask author C.B. Shiepe, you listen to the music of Amy Grant.

Shiepe, who was featured in a recent issue of\u00a0Guideposts<\/em>\u00a0Magazine, overcame a mysterious autoimmune illness that had him sidelined for years.\u00a0During that time, one voice in particular ministered to him, as he struggled to get better and wrote his popular novel\u00a0Cliff Falls<\/em>. That voice was Amy Grant.

\u201cThe thing about Amy is that her lyrics are real. They enter that space of isolation and remind us that we\u2019re not alone. That\u2019s so much of what I\u2019ve tried to do with my own writing.\u201d

\u201cWhen you go through a trial, you discover right away that you have no use for anything that isn\u2019t real. You see the difference in a new way\u00a0and you ask hard questions about long-held beliefs, \u2018Restoration, healing, unconditional love and self-worth, are those things real?\u2019 Amy\u2019s music and lyrics helped me wrestle\u00a0with those questions at a time when I needed that stuff to be true.\u00a0It acknowledged my reality.\u201d

So, you can imagine his surprise years later when Amy offered to endorse his novel. \u201cHer quote is on the cover. The idea that she understood the story of redemption and called it\u00a0real<\/em>, were the very words and qualities that she had reached me with.\u201d\u00a0

Author C.B. Shiepe has found himself in good company.\u00a0\u00a0On the \u201cBooks to Change Your Life\u201d shelf inside historic Vroman\u2019s Bookstore in Pasadena, sits\u00a0Cliff Falls: The Missing Pieces Edition<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 right next to\u00a0The Alchemist<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Tuesday\u2019s with Morrie<\/em>.\u00a0

\u201cThis is a book you can give to someone who is struggling with self-hatred and the lies written on their heart,\u201d says Shiepe. \u201cIt\u2019s almost a self-help book, but it\u2019s fiction, with drama, humor and some romance.\u201d

\u201cThis is a story about a man taking control of his life and destiny,\u201d said Allison K. Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association. \u201cAn inspirational story by an equally inspirational author.\u201d

\u201cI\u2019ve spoken at colleges, recovery centers, rotary and book clubs, and you know what? When it comes to the hurt and healing, we are all the same. At one point or another, we all go over the falls.\u201d

That metaphor of \u201cthe falls\u201d has served Shiepe well in articulating the soul of the novel. \u201cOne woman came up to me and said she had lost her job recently as a space engineer. What she realized was that she hadn\u2019t just lost a job, she had lost her identity. Where do you go from there?\u201d

The question of\u00a0who we are when we are separated from everything, we\u2019ve put our identity in,<\/em>\u00a0was the driving force behind this novel. It seems more relevant now than before. And it is also a reminder to Shiepe as he starts his book tour, that there is a greater purpose at work here.

\u201cI know that isolation that people are feeling right now. This book was born out of it. What the world is experiencing, I have already been through. When your world gets so small, you\u2019re forced to confront yourself, asking questions about your value and worth and who you are apart from your job. Challenges are opportunities for transformation.\u201d

Shiepe has produced the audiobook with his first choice as narrator, Santino Fontana (Prince Hans in Disney\u2019s\u00a0Frozen<\/em>, Tony Award-winning\u00a0Tootsie<\/em>, audiobook Narrator,\u00a0The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Hunger Games<\/em>). \u201cSantino is so talented and in demand. My hope is to now use the spoken word to deliver this message of redemption to those who are isolated and need to hear it most.\u201d\u00a0

\u201cIn these times, people don\u2019t know where the hope is coming from. But it will come, sometimes from unexpected places\u2014and we have to keep our eyes open and be looking for it. That\u2019s what I decided to do.\u201d

\u201cAnd that\u2019s what we ALL have to do right now. This isn\u2019t just about a book, it\u2019s about hope and believing that we all have a future and that there is a purpose in these difficult and transformative times.\u201d\u00a0

There\u2019s a prayer that Amy says every day, \u201cGod lead me today to those I need. And those that need me. And let something I do have eternal significance.\u201d

Shiepe is clear, he isn\u2019t a guru, just another traveler on that road who has learned something about making your way through the storms of life. \u201cEven if you have a life that is pretty perfect and trouble free, this book has a message for you. Like one of Amy Grant\u2019s songs.\u00a0Everyone can take away a message.\u201d\u00a0PLUG BOOK:<\/u><\/strong>www.amazon.com\/Cliff-Falls-C-B-Shiepe\/dp\/0982702027\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=C.B.+Shiepe+Cliff+Falls&qid=1615764506&sr=8-1<\/a>BIO:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0C.B. Shiepe\u2019s award-winning novel \u2013 CLIFF FALLS \u2013 reaches a broad audience and resonates with readers who have gone over the falls in their own lives. Shiepe has garnered much media attention, appearing on NBC, PBS, TBN,\u00a0Hour of Power<\/em>, in\u00a0Guideposts\u00a0<\/em>Magazine, at the LA Times Festival of Books, and at speaking engagements across the country, including the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, CA where actors performed scenes from his novel.\u00a0\u00a0WEBSITE:<\/u><\/strong>clifffalls.com<\/a>FACEBOOK:<\/u><\/strong>www.facebook.com\/clifffalls<\/a>TWITTER:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0@clifffallsbook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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