Congrats to our SWP authors who were selected on the 2017 Sarton Women’s Book Award Shortlist:

 

Congrats to Diane Rios, Bridge of the Gods is a finalist for an Oregon Book Award in Children’s Literature!

 

Congrats to Rebecca Munn! The Gift of Goodbye won three awards in the 2018 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program: Gold/1st Place award in the Religious/Spiritual and Debut Author categories, and the Silver/2nd Place award in the Memoir category.

Barbara Ridley did a reading of her book When It’s Over at The Book Cellar in Chicago, and had a great response, with several SWP sisters showing up to offer support.

Wanda Maureen Miller (Last Trip Home) was featured in the Beach Reporter, a local Arkansas outlet.

Kirkus Reviews called Beautiful Illusion by Christie Nelson, “A love letter to the razzle-dazzle of 1930s San Francisco and the wonders of Treasure Island.”

Congrats to: To the Stars Through Difficulties by Romalyn Tilghman and The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber. Both were chosen as a main book and bonus book respectively for Pulpwood Queens book club for April 2018.

Breaking Sad by Shelly Fisher and Jennifer Jones was featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Shelly Fisher and Jennifer Jones  also did an interview on the Soul Sciences podcast.

Michelle Cox (A Promise Given) shares how she went from first date to engagement very quickly with Women’s World.

Brooke Warner, our She Writes Press publisher, joined the conversation on #MeToo in the publishing world in this piece from The Wall Street Journal.

Congrats to Unmasking What Matters by Sandra Joseph for being a Kindle #1 bestseller!

A great #throwback photo of our SWP authors: Ginni Simpson Burdt, Barbara A. Stark-Nemon, Lizbeth Meredith, Betty Hafner and Jenni Ogden. This was taken at our November 2016 retreat. Keep an eye out for the 2018 retreat details!

Upcoming Events:

 

She Writes Press publisher Brooke Warner is speaking at the IBPA Publishing University on April 6-7 in Austin, Texas – a fantastic place to learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about self-publishing/indie publishing. See you there!

Laurie Buchanan will be a guest instructor at the Writers’ Institute at UW-Madison this spring. More details at uwwritersinstitute.wisc.edu.

Every week, we celebrate noteworthy achievements and upcoming events happening within the She Writes Press community in our “Friday High Fives!” If you have coverage you’d like to share, a new award to your name or an event planned, please email digital@sparkpointstudio.com and we’ll get you included in an upcoming Friday High Fives!