Kim Gentry Meyer to Release Debut Book, "Herald Reflections," May 6

Kim Gentry Meyer, Mrs. Massachusetts 2020 and award-winning singer/songwriter/poet and painter, is excited to announce her upcoming debut book, Herald Reflections, which is due to release from Fitting Words on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

The gorgeous new inspirational book (part devotional book, part art book) is currently available for pre-sale only on Amazon.com, and has already achieved Top 100 Amazon Best Seller status in pre-release, hitting #39 on the Christian Meditations chart.

It features endorsements from Dove Award-winning Gospel music legend Babbie Mason, Chris Carpenter, managing editor of The Christian Post's online magazine, Crossmap.com, and television producer Greg West (Babbie's House, Atlanta Live, and Friends & Neighbors), as well as a forward from best-selling author and speaker, Laura Harris Smith, host of the Total Living Network's and the Christian Television Network's popular talk show, theTHREE.

Meyer, who won the title of Mrs. Massachusetts 2020 from the prestigious Mrs. America organization, is a regular contributor for "Daybreak Devotions and Nighttime Prayers" on The Christian Post's online lifestyle magazine, Crossmap.com.

She is also an International Acoustic Music Award winner, was a finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition, and was honored as a 2023 Woody Guthrie Poet."Kim is, hands down, one of the most versatile artists I have ever met," says Harris Smith. "She paints, she sings, she writes...and she humbly inspires others to use every gift God has given them."

Her debut album, Herald, was released to critical acclaim in August 2023 from NWN Records and Integrated Music Rights (part of the Integrity Music family) and was named one of the Top 12 Albums of 2023 by Today's Christian Entertainment alongside music from Katy Nichole, Phil Wickham, Jason Gray, Christy Nockels, Cory Asbury, Riley Clemmons, and more.

Now Herald Reflections, the companion book to her Herald album, melds Meyer's musical and visual artistic gifts with her strong writing ability to give praise and honor to God and encouragement to others.

"I wanted to create a multimedia approach to sharing my Herald album songs and the series of paintings that goes along with them, as well as the song lyrics and the Bible verses that inspired each of the songs," says Meyer. "I also wanted to more fully tell the stories behind the songs, but to do it in a way that is very accessible to both individual and group readers. A devotional book format felt like the right way to bring all of this together."

Meyer, a visual artist in the impressionist/expressionist tradition, personally painted not only the beautiful original artwork for the Herald album cover and Herald Reflections book cover, but the eight individual sunset pieces featured in full color throughout Herald Reflections-one to accompany each track on the album.

"One day, back before I began working on my debut album, I was praying and told the Lord that I really felt like I needed more specific direction in terms of what I should do next, and I needed to know more specifically who I am to Him," Meyer recalls. "I heard Him say to my spirit so clearly, 'You are my herald.' It felt right to name the album Herald to honor that conversation. I feel the same way about my new book, Herald Reflections."

"The sunset paintings signify the whole idea of being a herald to proclaim the coming of the Lord," she reveals. The theme of restoration shines throughout Herald Reflections as it does throughout her Herald album, which Meyer ultimately hopes will lead readers and listeners to lift their hands in praise and be encouraged no matter what season they may be walking through. "By offering writing, music, and visual art all together, I feel I can minister to a wider range of people who might be impacted by at least one of my art forms," says Meyer. "At the end of the day, I'm just trying to be the herald the Lord wants me to be in the ways I know how." One way that Meyer was inspired to be a herald while writing her new book was to develop painting workshops for women in prison, teaching them to paint each of her Herald paintings.

"The Lord placed prison ministry in my heart a few years ago, but due to the Covid restrictions of the time, it was only last year that I was able to get actively involved," she remembers. "He knew all along the perfect timing for me to do this, because it is really helping to inform the ministry I'm doing with Herald Reflections. I love connecting with incarcerated women and encouraging them. I have great empathy for their situations, because we're all one decision or circumstance away from being in their shoes." "I even decided to make Herald Reflections a softcover book, instead of hardcover like so many books with art are, so that it will be allowed in correctional facilities," Meyer continues. " I want everyone, regardless of circumstance, to be able to enjoy my book and be encouraged." Purchase Herald Reflections, which is currently available for pre-sale only on Amazon.com.

 

 

 

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