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  “Deeply immersive . . . authentic . . . emotionally potent.” – Kirkus Reviews

The Legacy Letters

His wife, his children, his final gift

A Timeless and Universal Love Story about Life

Rediscovered private letters from a dying father to his children—and his wife—uncover a passionate and powerful guidebook to life.

Summary— The Legacy Letters reveals to us the stories, memories, and music of a dying father, which ultimately becomes the practical, moral, and spiritual gift and guidebook for his children he’d never live to see, and for his wife, his redemptive story of love.

Seattle, WA—August 8, 2013—Carew Papritz, Best-selling Author Combining the best elements of such inspirational books as Tuesdays with Morrie, The Last Lecture, and Chicken Soup for the Soul, Carew Papritz has created an intense and thought- provoking book, filled with  life instructions that are beautiful, revealing, and as Kirkus Reviews writes, “Deeply immersive . . . authentic . . . emotionally potent.”   “A nightstand essential.”

Who Reads This “Everybody Book?”  Romantic and pragmatic, old-fashioned and new-fashioned, life- questioning and life-altering, The Legacy Letters is an “everybody book.”  It appeals to new parents and parents-to-be for its detailed life instructions.  Parents are reading it to and with their children.  Teenagers are rediscovering timeless values and ideas still relevant for a new time.   Grandparents read it for the nostalgia of an earlier time and to read to their grandchildren.  For people hungry to find meaning in their lives, The Legacy Letters offers its audience a way to think about, talk about, and even change their lives—to create their own “Legacy Life.”

Discovering the Songs of The Legacy Letters—Carew also adds an unique element, songs written specifically for the book.  The Legacy Letters—The Songs is the gift of music, along with the letters, that the author left to both his children and his wife.  The full album will be available this fall.

A Writer’s Life Made for The Legacy Letters— Carew Papritz was born in Yosemite National Park, and has lived in England, Norway, and across the US.  He has worked as a cowboy and wrangler, ski patrol, freelance journalist, tour bus driver, bartender, and in feature films in Hollywood.  He began writing The Legacy Letters on the back of his pickup while working on a ranch.  Eventually, he “wrangled”  “the woman who would become his wife; they were married on horseback while a bagpiper played.  They now have a son and live in Washington state and the Southwest.

 CONTACTS

For more information about Carew Papritz or The Legacy Letters, please see the following web sites or contact his publicists Courtney Wells or Lynnette Scheier.