Keep It Real Press publishes books by people who have been through what they are writing about. No experts. No platforms. Just honest books for people who need them.
Every book in the By Design collection rests on one conviction: you were made on purpose, for a purpose, by a God who wired your value, your relationships, your peace, and your imagination into the original design. The collection launches with three: Valuable by Design, which frees you from performance-based worth; Connected by Design (Two Trees, Two Kingdoms), which names the operating system the whole human race defaulted to and the better tree we were always meant to live from; and Disarmed by Design, which exposes how the enemy counterfeits and assaults that design, and how the finished work of Christ has already disarmed him. Read any one as a doorway. Read them all as a map home.
The trap of performance-based worth is the one most of us never see, because we were handed it as a virtue. This first book traces the way out — from striving to settled, from driven to led — and back to the truth that your value was placed in you by design, not earned by performance. Releases September 20, 2026 — pre-order the ebook.
There is an operating system the whole human race defaulted to — measuring ourselves, judging ourselves, handing down our own verdict. This book names it, and points to the better tree we were always meant to live from: connection instead of self-judgement, the life God designed us to receive rather than earn.
The accuser counterfeits and assaults the life you were made for. This book exposes how — and how the finished work of Christ has already stripped him of his weapons and restored the authority he stole. The third facet of God's design: the peace and authority you were created to walk in.