Promises Kept Wins 2010 EPIC eBook Award for Nonfiction!

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 20, 2010 -- EPIC’s eBook Awards are the longest-standing and most inclusive awards in the e-publishing industry. Entries were received in thirty categories for fiction and non-fiction from around the world. Each entry received at least three reads from judges who are all published authors. Once the finalists were selected, the books were reviewed and rated by other judges to determine the winners.

During a formal, gala dinner concluding EPIC’s annual convention, EPICon, the winners were announced.

Leonard and Luanna Rugh's book, Promises Kept: How One Couple's Love Survived Vietnam, won for best nonfiction ebook of 2010! Over twenty years in the writing, this is perhaps the most inspirational book ever written.

Len Rugh was shot in the head by an AK-47 round during a patrol in the jungles of Vietnam. Instead of becoming one of the over 58,000 names on ‘The Wall’ in Washington DC, he survived and made it home, not walking off a plane, but being carried off on a stretcher, more dead than alive. The book, Promises Kept: How One Couple's Love Survived Vietnam, tells the story of how he finally discovered the truth of that day and gained peace thirty-one years after returning from the war.

The story begins at the moment Len's draft notice arrived in August, 1968 and continues to the present. Len spent thirteen years putting his memories on paper. In March 2002, he finally asked Lu to become involved. She had waited patiently to read what had been written.

Lu started working on the reconstruction of the sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. She admits English is not her forte, but knows a run-on sentence when she sees one. The book expanded. The original thirteen chapters grew to fifty-three.

Len had sent over a hundred and thirty letters to Lu while in Vietnam. Many of them appear in the book. As instructed for security purposes, all of Lu’s correspondence was burned in Vietnam. Those which appear in the book were reconstructed from memory.

They have kept in touch with Lieutenant Don Bratton and Marty Glasgow since meeting them again in 2000. Marty's email put them on the track to finding out the truth about what happened that fateful day in Vietnam, with details supplied by Don. They were dismayed when Don sent news of Marty’s death in December of 2003.

The book is as factual as they could make it. In the places where memory failed, they filled in with what they believe happened. The names were adjusted to protect the private lives of the characters.

Their books are available on most online book outlets. Read more about the Rughs and their writing at: www.rughfamilywriters.com.