Awards

Congratulations to the following She Writes Press authors who are winners of the 2019 American BookFest “Best Book” Awards:

Laureen Nussbaum‘s Shedding our Stars, Diane Wald’s Gillyflower and Marika Lindholm’s We Got This.

Congratulations to the following She Writes Press authors who are finalists of the 2019 American BookFest “Best Book” Awards:

Elayne Klasson‘s Love is a Rebellious Bird, Marika Lindholm’s We Got This, Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic’s Lost Without the River, Deborah Burn’s Saturday’s Child, Ames Sheldon’s Don’t Put the Boats Away, Rita Dragonette’s The Fourteenth of September, Barbara Stark-Nemon’s Hard Cider, Lorraine Devon Wilke’s The Alchemy of Noise, Eileen Harrison Sanchez’s Freedom Lessons, J.L. Doucette’s On A Quiet Street, Barbara Sapienza’s Anchor Out, Judy Kundert’s Sky Queen, Lisa Braver Moss’s Shrug, Stefanie Arend’s Be Healthy with Yin Yoga, Thais Nye Derich’s Second Chance, Lise Weil’s In Search of Pure Lust, Pookie Sekmet’s Sensitive, Christine Ristaino’s All the Silent Spaces and Diane Pomerantz’s Lost in the Reflecting Pool.

News and Updates

 Mani/Pedi by Krista Beth Diver and Just A Girl by Lucinda Jackson were featured on a Create & Cultivate roundup of career books by women to help you lead your life like a boss.

Hadassah Magazine is recommending Jeanne Blasberg’s The Nine and Rachel Levy Lesser’s Life’s Accessories as two of the best new books for winter reading.

Krista Beth Diver was interviewed on Helene T. Stelian’s blog Empowering Women in Midlife and NAILS Magazine profiled her book Mani/Pedi. 

Faces of TBI Podcast and Daily Authors Podcast interviewed JoAnne Silver Jones about her memoir Headstrong. Also, JoAnne Silver Jones published an essay featured in HOPE Magazine and on Salon.com

Janice Morgan, author of Suspended Sentence, stopped by the Daily Authors Podcast for an interview.

Lisa Tognola’s As Long As It’s Perfect was also featured on BookTrib’s Bookbites and Midwest Book Review shared a review calling it, “An inherently engaging and fascinating page-turner of a read.”

Hasty Book List featured Rachel Levy Lesser, author of Life’s Accessories, in an author interview and wrote a book review on her memoir.

An excerpt from chapter two of Beyond the Ghetto Gates by Michelle Cameron was featured in the Autumn/Winter 2019 issue of Tiferet Journal. 

Events

Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, author of The Nine, will be speaking at Book Passage on Tuesday, November 19th at 6 p.m.

Elena Schwolsky, author of Walking in Havana, will be heading out on a book tour from November 2019 to February 2020. Check the flyer below for more details on specific days and locations.

 

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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!