Life in small-town Ohio

In mid-June 2019, Columbus Press released “Random God Sightings” by Kelly Hanes, a book featuring twenty-six true stories of the author’s encounters with God in the real world.

Born and raised in Greenville, Ohio and eventually making homes in Brookville and Eaton, Ohio with her young family, Kelly made another move in 2003 to Houston, Texas, where she enrolled at the University of Houston and began taking writing courses. Eventually, she graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English as well as was recipient of an award from The Honors College for her thesis, “Wordsworth and the Religious Experience.”

     Over the years in rural small town Ohio, chance encounters led her to wonder if God really shows up in the real world.  She began to ask God to show up and earnestly seek to see Him.

“The stories in this book are true,” author Hanes expressed. “It seems that asking [God to show up] is all that is required, for that simple request served as a catalyst for a series of experiences that changed my life forever.”

Christian author and speaker Shannon Upton said in review, “Kelly teaches us how to recognize God’s grace at work.” Her stories offer a balance between divine inspiration and open-mindedness for people of all faiths. “Adults and children, the healthy and the afflicted, believers and atheists alike can shine the light of God’s love into our lives if only we open our eyes to see it!”

Hanes shares her stories to encourage and lead others to ask and begin to see God show up in their lives, sometimes in the most unexpected ways. More at: www.kellyhanes.com or the publisher at: 614.805.3982, or by email at: info@columbuspressbooks.com.

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Founded in 2012, Columbus Press is an independent publisher based in Zanesville, Ohio. Their titles are distributed internationally. They represent fiction and narrative non-fiction which embodies a strong core belief system even though it may not be overtly expressed. Humankind is fallible and we too strive for realistic representations of the world around us. More at: www.columbuspressbooks.com