LWP Statistics

Many authors often ask how their books are performing, or how certain genres perform at our company overall. Here is a brief breakdown:

Bestselling genre - Christian Help/Self-help
Slowest sellers - Children's books

Our best performing titles for this past quarter were:

• The Rape of Innocence: Taking Captivity Captive by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 2000 copies sold)
• Becoming: My Personal Memoirs by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 1800 copies sold)

Our best performing titles to date this quarter: (not final totals and barring no returns come in)

• The Rape of Innocence by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 680 copies sold)
• The Nazarene Commentary by Mark Heber Miller (approx. 500 copies sold)
• Life is a Game by Jim Copeland (approx. 600 copies sold)
• The Fire that Burns for the Last Days by Kevin O'Connor (approx. 200 copies sold)
• Becoming: My Personal Memoirs by Lacresha Hayes (approx. 100 copies sold)
• Stories from the Red Glass by LMH Christian (approx. 80 copies sold)
• Benjamin P. Blizzard by Karen Nivens (approx. 60 copies sold)

The title that performed best in pre-sales is:

• The Fire that Burns for the Last Days by Kevin O'Connor

Titles that have received the most media/reviews/online attention:

• The Rape of Innocence: Taking Captivity Captive by Lacresha Hayes
• Life is a Game by Jim Copeland
• The Adventures of Katie-Bear: Fun Days at School by V.K. Sansone
• Benjamin P. Blizzard: Welcome to Christmastown by Karen Nivens

Children's books move at the slowest pace, but present constant growth over a period of time. Returns in this category have been almost non-existent. Christian and self help sell quickest, but bring in the highest returns.

Upcoming Release: Messianic Confessions by Mark Heber Miller

If you've ever wondered about the man whose photography graces the "Footprints in the Sand" poem, who wrote the shorter version of the poem, who has studied the Bible for more than 50 years, who has written and published The Nazarene Commentary: 21st Century Version of the Christian Scriptures, and who is celebrated in everything he does, now is your chance. Mark Heber Miller's long awaited life story, Messianic Confessions, will finally be released in July 2008. You don't want to miss this book which is sure to be a collector's item!

Let the praises ring: Mark Heber Miller Voices His Opinion and Praise

I have to say, I was very, VERY pleased with this testimonial. I was so deeply invested in getting it out that when I finally got the proof copy, I nearly cried. It felt like a huge relief and a gigantic victory to have finally published this work. Here's what Mr. Miller wrote about us:

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Lacresha is my angel! Living Waters Publishing is a miracle and the answer to a prayer. Between 1996 and 2007 I had written Bible commentaries and posted these on the Friends of the Nazarene web page. [www.nazarene-friends.org] BUT I had always wanted to publish some of these in hard copy but had no idea how to go about it. I prayed to the God I believe in - Abba the Father - and asked if it was His will He would direct and guide me to someone who would tackle this tremendous job of publishing The Nazarene Commentary: 21st Century Version of the Christian Scriptures with 12,000 footnotes; AND, 6 other books on Christian living and teaching.

Enter Lacresha and Living Waters Publishing! What a caring champion for my work, though the project was so daunting. Just as I struggled to write the original, LWP worked for months to help edit and prepare the first soft cover copies. Hard cover editions will be available in the coming months.

I cannot priase Lacresha and her group at LWP enough. They were so encouraging and patient as they held my hand throughout the publishing and printing process. Actually, I can think of no criticsm regarding LWP and would recommend them to any writer entering the spiritual/inspirational field. I look forward to the year 2008 as six more books will be published: Nazarene Apocalypse: The Jesus Prophecies [a comprehensive study of Revelation]; a four volume work containing 165 articles on Bible topics: Nazarene Teachings: Follow the Lamb!; and my life story, Messianic Confessions.

Most sincerely,

Mark Heber Miller