Awards

Congratulations to the following Moonbeam Children’s Book Award winners:

Gold in Young Adult Fiction – Historical/Cultural: Shrug by Lisa Braver Moss

Silver in Pre-Teen Fiction – Fantasy: Return of the Evening Star by Diane Rios

Bronze in Young Adult Fiction – Mature Issues: I Love You Like That by Heather Cumisky

News and Updates

Brit + Co featured Lisa Tognola’s As Long As It’s Perfect and JoAnne Silver Jones’s Headstrong in a roundup of perfect books for your fall book club.

Rachel Levy Lesser, author of Life’s Accessories, wrote a piece that was featured on Scary Mommy.

The Glass Hammer wrote a profile story on Adrienne Rubin, author of Diamonds and Scoundrels.

Juliet Cutler, author of Among the Maasai, was interviewed by the Unplugged and Totally Uncut podcast and the View From the Writing Instrument podcast and wrote a guest post on the Cathy Zane blog.

Gen The Bookworm featured Tyra Manning’s Your Turn in a post about new October book releases.

Mary Fleming, author of The Art of Regret, wrote an essay for the Read Her Like An Open Book blog.

Barbara Artson was interviewed on the Deborah Kalb blog about her book Odessa, Odessa.

Ilene English (pictured seated below), author of Hippie Chick, had a wonderful book launch event and was joined by fellow She Writes Press Sisters (left to right): Cindy Rasicot, Terry Sue Harms and Betsy Graziani Fasbinder. 

Events

Meet Anniqua Rana at Redwood City Public Library on Tuesday, October 10th at 7 p.m. and at Litquake on Saturday, October 12th at 2:30 p.m. On Saturday, October 19th Play on Words will be presenting a chapter, “Birth Canal,” from her novel Wild Boar in the Cane Field at Lit Crawl San Fransico.

Meet Lisa Tognola, author of As Long As It’s Perfect, at Indigo Bookstore at 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 12th.

Carole Bumpus, author of Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, is heading out on tour until December 4th, 2019. Click here for specific dates and locations.

If you are in the Atlanta, GA area, join Christine Ristaino, author of All the Silent Spaces, for a book event. See the flyer below for more details on upcoming dates 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!