She Writes Press imprint: 299 books
Play for Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
It happens without warning: At a folk-rock show at her son’s college, Lily becomes transfixed by the guitarist’s unassuming onstage presence and beautiful playing—and with his final note, something within her breaks loose. After the concert, Lily returns to her comfortable life—an Upper West...
Eden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction
2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction
2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction
Becca Meister Fitzpatrick—wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community—is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic...
Raising Myself
A Memoir of Neglect, Shame, and Growing Up Too Soon
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
No one could have imagined how as a child Beverly Engel could have managed to become who she is today—an internationally known expert on abuse recovery and the best-selling author of twenty-two self-help books. This is the raw, candid story of how she made her way in the world in spite of her mother’s...
Operatic Divas and Naked Irishmen
An Innkeeper’s Tale
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Operatic Divas and Naked Irishmen depicts the working life of one woman who, at sixty-four, does not let age or lack of enough money stand in the way of opening her own business. She does whatever it takes to make it a success. During the economic crunch of 2008-2013, when her occupancy rate drops,...
Painting Life
My Creative Journey Through Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
When Carol Walsh pulled her fiancé from the bottom of a diving well—dead from a massive heart attack—her life was turned upside down. Even though she was a psychotherapist working with clients suffering from trauma, this personal shock felt unbearable. Nonetheless, she had to heal herself while...
Seeing Red
A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Seeing Red: A Women’s Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred is an intimate memoir about one woman’s search for personal power—a journey of climbing inner and outer mountains that takes her to the holy Mt. Kailas in Tibet, through a seven-year marriage, and into the arms of the fierce goddess...
by Melissa Rea
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
ER physician Elizabeth Hillman has been hurt by the men in her life far too often—which is why she spends her free time safely alone, reading the memoir of Giacomo Casanova, history’s most famous libertine. But when a child in Lizzy’s care dies, she flees to Venice, Italy for a much-needed break—and...
Duck Pond Epiphany
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
Though educated as a painter, fifty-three-year-old Lee MacPhearson has lived her life coloring inside of the lines. The quintessential working mother of four, Lee has been the proper faculty wife—an ill-fitting role at best—while somehow managing to nurture her passion project, Mad Dog Gallery,...
Expect Deception
An Operation Delphi Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Just when US WAVE Livvy Delacourt thinks she and her team of psychic Nazi hunters are ready for whatever The Reich can throw at them, Hitler adds a spy to the mix who also happens to be a wizard. Now dark magic is being used to attack US facilities, and Livvy must match wits with the evil wizard,...
Loveyoubye
Holding Fast, Letting Go, And Then There's The Dog
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Loveyoubye opens when Rossandra White’s husband of twenty-five years disappears, leaving behind a cryptic, hastily-written note on the kitchen counter, and then returns weeks later, offering few details about where he went. This sequence of events has played out before. Despite knowledge of at least...
Reclaiming Home
Diary of a Journey Through Post-Apartheid South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Reclaiming Home is the diary of Lesego Malepe’s travels in South Africa in 2004, the 10th anniversary of South Africa’s democracy. The book begins with Malepe taking the bus from Pretoria, where she grew up, to Cape Town, where she visits Robben Island—the prison where her brother served a life...
Magic Flute
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Liz Morgan is a talented, ambitious flutist headed for a brilliant career. But before she can achieve the world-class recognition she craves, an accident puts an end to her dreams. Desperate to fulfill her mother’s musical legacy, she fights to reinvent her path, and settles on a new passion: singing....
The End of Miracles
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
International Book Awards 2016 finalist for literary fiction
The End of Miracles is a twisting, haunting story about the drastic consequences of a frustrated obsession. A woman with a complex past wants nothing more than to become a mother, but struggles with infertility and miscarriage. She is temporarily...
You Can't Buy Love Like That
Growing Up Gay in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the ’60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers. Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the ’60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law...