She Writes Press: 369 books
Dark Lady
A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
2017-2018 Sarton Women's Book Awards Winner in Historical Fiction 2018 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: Historical Emilia Bassano has four strikes against her: she is poor, beautiful, female, and intelligent in Elizabethan England. To make matters worse, she comes from a family of secret...
Last Trip Home
A Story of an Arkansas Farm Girl
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
“Who do you thank you are, the Quane of Anglund?” That’s what Grace Marie’s father used to say to her whenever he thought she was getting out of her place. In her fifties now, Grace Marie is a college professor living in a beach town in California, and when she gets a phone call telling her...
Audacious Voices
Profiles in Intersectional Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Inspiring and hopeful, Audacious Voices is a collection of twelve stories from alumnae/alumni of WILL*, a feminist model for education. Each author featured in this book is working, in their own distinct way, to make their communities more equitable—and their stories illustrate how different elements...
Shelter of Leaves
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
On Memorial Day, a series of bomb explosions shuts down major cities across the US. Her apartment in ruins, Sabine flees Washington DC and begins a grueling journey on foot that brings her to West Virginia, where she finds safety at an abandoned farmhouse with other refugees. For Sabine, family is...
by LG O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Between a hostile work environment and an impossible romantic situation with her longtime friend and first love, Dr. Kai Solomon, disenchanted New York investment banker Cara Collins has little to smile about on her 27th birthday. But before the day ends, she receives a letter from her long-dead grandmother...
Motherhood Reimagined
When Becoming a Mother Doesn’t Go As Planned: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
At the age of thirty-nine, Sarah Kowalski heard her biological clock ticking, loudly. A single woman harboring a deep ambivalence about motherhood, Kowalski needed to decide once and for all: Did she want a baby or not? More importantly, with no partner on the horizon, did she want to have a baby...
The Sportscaster's Daughter
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
One of the 20 Best Books of 2016, Redbook Magazine
Readers’ Favorite Award: Honorable Mention
Millions of people watched sportscaster George Michael each week on the Sports Machine, including his daughter Cindi. Cindi Michael appears to live a charmed life: she’s happily married, has a successful...
The Black Velvet Coat
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Twenty-eight-year-old struggling San Francisco artist Anne McFarland is determined to get a one-woman show, even though no one, including herself, believes she can do it. But when she buys a coat at a thrift shop with a key in its pocket, strange, even magical, occurrences begin to unfold, and she...
Fourteen
A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Winner of 5 independent book awards, including NIEA, Next Generation Indie, Independent Press Award, Beverly Hills Book Awards and Readers’ Favorites
After her mother and father divorce at age seven, Leslie quickly learns the hard lessons of being Dad's favorite. The abuse begins at age nine and...
Splitting the Difference
A Heart-Shaped Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
At 18, Tré Miller-Rodríguez gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. At 19, her only sibling was killed in a car crash. At 34, she lost her husband to a sudden heart attack. Then, at 36, her now-teenaged daughter found her on Facebook—and began to reshape the course of Tré’s life. With sharp,...
A Drop in the Ocean
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD, FICTION, LARGE PUBLISHER (2016)
GOLD: SARTON WOMEN'S BOOK AWARD, CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016)
GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS), BEST FICTION, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016)
SILVER: READERS’ FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD, WOMEN’S FICTION
On her 49th birthday,...
A Leg to Stand On
An Amputee's Walk into Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality—and no one would have blamed her for it. Instead, she went the opposite way. In the years following her accident, Haggerty...
Where Have I Been All My Life?
A Journey Toward Love and Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Where Have I Been All My Life? is a compelling memoir recounting one woman’s journey through grief and a profound feeling of unworthiness to wholeness and healing. It begins with the chillingly sudden death of Rice’s mother, and is followed by her foray into the center of mourning. With wisdom,...
The Shelf Life of Ashes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
When Hollis Giammatteo sought a job working with the elderly, she did so with the intention of finding models of healthy aging. And she failed. In The Shelf Life of Ashes, Giammatteo chronicles her experiences with her wards, as well as the trip she embarks upon when her mother, who is convinced she...