She Writes Press: 369 books

2017 Silver Medalist, IPPY in Memoir/Personal Struggles 2017 International Book Awards, Finalist Autbiography/Memoir 2016 Best Book Awards, Finalist Women's Issues Pieces of Me is an important, honest, and heart-rending story of a brave young mother's struggle to save her precious...

• Working with literary publicity firm JKS Communications • Paid placement and promotion through NetGalley, Foreword, PW, and Kirkus • Publicist-assisted promotion through book groups • Holding off-site, affiliated reading during AWP with a number of essay contributors who will be in attendance...

• The Girls Write Now anthology series has received the Outstanding Book of the Year Award and Independent Voice Award from the Independent Publisher Book Awards; has earned honors from the International Book Awards, The New York Book Festival, the National Indie Excellence Awards and the Next Generation...

• Confirmed: Trinity College will include an article on the book and author in their alumni magazine • Pitching to online and print media (book blogs, online magazines, publishing media sites, major newspapers, news websites) • Pitching to author’s local media outlets (print, online, and broadcast)...

• Author readings in Monterey County, SF Bay Area, Ohio, and London • Radio interview in Santa Cruz • Targeting 50 blogs for guest blogging and reviews • New author website currently under design/construction • Promotion via social media/author communities: She Writes, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Goodreads, and womensmemoirs.com, among others

Carrie Highley was always a tomboy—and by the time she turned sixteen, she was wishing she were dancing with the girls instead of the boys at cotillion dances. In her early thirties, while living in West Virginia, she discovered a passion for road biking, finally stopped sequestering her deep feelings...

2015-2016 Sarton Story Circle: Memoir Winner 2016-2017 Readers Views Award: Memoir/Autobiography/Biography Winner, West Pacific Regional Winner 2017 Independent Press Award: Relationships Winner 2017 Northern California Publishers and Authors Second Place in Book Cover 2017...

Jennifer Sharpe is a divorced mother of two with a problem just about any working parent can relate to: her boss expects her to work as though she doesn’t have children, and her children want her to care for them as though she doesn’t have a boss. But when, through a fateful coincidence, a brilliant...

Freddie was raised on faith. It’s in her blood. Yet when she loses her husband of many years, she can’t quite bring herself to seek solace from the Almighty, and enters a state of quiet contemplation, instead. Her solitude quickly ends when she meets a man roaming her neighborhood in search of...

When journalist Jill Smolowe buried her husband, sister, mother, and mother-in-law in the space of seventeen months, she assumed that it was only a matter of time before she fell apart. That’s what all the movies and memoirs say will happen, after all. But when she never “lost it”—and when...

Have you loved and lost before, yet struggled with how to recover and move forward? Are you looking for inspiration to give you strength to persevere? Have you faced the inevitable eternal rest of a parent, struggled with how to say good-bye? Have you questioned your faith and let fear take over in...

2016 Santa Fe literary awards - finalist 2016 Next Generation Indie Book awards - finalist 2016 USA Best Book Awards - finalist in the memoir category 2016 Author Awards, 2nd place in the memoir category A SheKnows.com and Mind Body and Green Must-Read! Featured in Buzzfeed, Working Mother Magazine,...

When Lise Weil came out in 1976, she came out into a land that was all on fire. Lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. At the center of In Search of Pure Lust is Weil’s immersion in this culture, this movement: the...

Odile Atthalin was a young woman from a prominent, bourgeois family in Paris when she decided to leave home in search of meaning. All she knew was that she wanted to go East; but once she had separated from France and committed to creating a new life for herself, opportunities fell into place. After...