Award Announcements

Congratulations to the 2019 Indie Excellence Award Winners:

Memoir (overcoming adversity/tragedy) – Boot Language by Vanya Erickson, Memoir (personal struggle/health) Lost in the Reflecting Pool by Diane Pomerantz, Motivational – A Year of Living Kindly by Donna Cameron, Novella – Gillyflower by Diane Wald, Travel/ Travel Guide  – The Buddha Sat Right Here by Dena Moes.

Congratulations to the 2019 Indie Excellence Award Finalists:

Travel/ Travel Guide – Rudy’s Rules for Travel by Mary K. Jensen, Romance – A Veil Removed by Michelle Cox, Series – The Henrietta and Inspector Howard Series: Book 1 – A Girl Like You, Book 2 – Ring of Truth, Book 3 – A Promise Given, Book 4 – A Veil Removed by Michelle Cox, Second Novel – Just In Time by Joan L. Jackson, Relationships Non-Fiction – Lost in the Reflecting Pool by Diane Pomerantz, Parenting/ Family Non-Fiction – Off the Rails by Susan Burrowes, Multicultural Fiction & Mystery – Murder Under the Fig Tree by Kate Jessica Raphael, Current Events/ Social Change & eBook Non-Fiction – Redlined by Linda Gartz, General Fiction Novel – The Same River by Lisa Reddick, General Non-Fiction – Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic by Marianna Crane, Memoir (Historical/ Legacy Career) – Lost Without the River by Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic, Memoir (other) – Fetish Girl by Bella LaVey, Nothing But Blue by Diane Meyer Lowman, Rudy’s Rules for Travel by Mary K. Jensen.

News and Updates

Bustle wrote a review and synopsis on Sande Boritz Berger’s Split-Level.

Parade Magazine named Sky Queen by Judy Kundert as one of the best beach reads of summer 2019.

Write On, Sisters! by Brooke Warner was featured on a Boove roundup of books about publishing.

An excerpt from Karen Keilt’s, The Parrot’s Perch, was featured on The Daily Beast.

Camp Grandma, by Marianne Waggoner Day, received praise from GRAND Magazine and Marianne wrote an article that was published in Working Mother Magazine. 

BookBub listed You Cannot Mess This Up by Amy Daughters in a roundup of books that will make the perfect addition to your beach bag.

Women.com featured A Better Next by Maren Cooper as one of the most anticipated books of summer by women.

Deborah Burns, author of Saturday’s Child, wrote an article on lessons her unconventional mother taught her that was featured on SheKnows.com.

Dena Moes, author of The Buddha Sat Right Here, appeared on the Adult Conversations Podcast, received a glowing review on her memoir from San Francisco Book Review and wrote an essay featured on The Mindful Word and a guest post on The Manifest-Station.

Kay Rae Chomic, author of A Tight Grip, shared a piece titled, Less Like Twins, that was published in Crack the Spine Literary Magazine.

Upcoming Events

Diane Wald, author of Gillyflower, will be hosting a reading at Amherst Books on Friday, May 17th at 7 p.m.

Dena Moes, author of The Buddha Sat Right Here, will be reading at the Les Bleus Literary Salon’s 5th Anniversary Gala on Friday, May 17th.

Join Linda Gartz, author of Redlined, for a presentation with Creative Coworking at Colvin House on Tuesday, May 21st from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Linda will also be hosting an event at the Glenview Public Library on Wednesday, May 22nd from 7 p.m. to 8p.m., and she will be hosting a presentation at The Standard Club on Wednesday, June 5th from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

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!