Awards

Congratulations to the 2019 Readers’ Favorite Award winners and finalists!

The Alchemy of Noise, Lorraine Devon Wilke – Gold Medal, Fiction/Literary
A Year of Living Kindly, Donna Cameron – Gold Medal, Non-fiction, Self-Help
The Buddha Sat Right Here, Dena Moes – Gold Medal, Non-fiction, Travel
Boot Language, Vanya Erickson – Silver Medal, Non-fiction, Memoir
Hummingbird in the Underworld, Deborah Tobola – Bronze Medal, Non-fiction, Social Issues
Gillyflower, Diane Wald – Bronze Medal, Fiction, Visionary
Split-Level, Sande Boritz Berger – Finalist, Fiction, Women’s
Braided, Beth Ricanati – Finalist, Non-fiction, Cooking/Food
Lost Without the River, Barbara Scoblic – Finalist, Non-fiction, Memoir
The Sleeping Lady, Bonnie Monte – Finalist, Fiction, Mystery/General
Drinking from the Trough, Mary Carlson – Honorable Mention, Non-fiction, Animals
A Veil Removed, Michelle Cox – Honorable Mention, Fiction, Mystery/Historical
Second Chance, Thais Derich – Honorable Mention, Non-fiction, Health/Medical

Congratulations to the following winners and finalists of the 2019 Living Now Book Awards!

Sacred and Delicious, Lisa Joy Mitchell – Gold Medal, Cookbooks, Natural/Nutrition/Organic/Vegetarian
Do You Have Kids?, Kate Kaufmann – Silver Medal, Sexuality/Femininity
Not a Poster Child, Francine Falk-Allen – Gold Medal, Inspirational/Memoir, Female
Memories in Dragonflies, Lannette Cornell Bloom – Gold Medal, Caregiving AND Silver Medal, Grieving, Death/Dying
Fixing the Fates, Diane Dewey – Silver Medal, Inspirational/Memoir, Female
Among the Maasai, Juliet Cutler – Bronze Medal, Inspirational/Memoir, Female

News and Updates

Parade Magazine inclueded Heather Cumiskey’s I Love You Like That in a roundup of books to read based on your favorite TV show.

Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table by Carole Bumpus was featured as the Book of the Day on Foreword Reviews.

 

The Nine by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg was listed as a book that makes the perfect travel companion by Frolic.

Don’t Put the Boats Away by Ames Sheldon and The Nine by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg were named new books to read over Labor Day weekend by Parade Magazine.

NBC News published end-of-summer beach reads roundup and featured The Nine by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg and We Never Told by Diana Altman.

Brooke Warner, She Writes Press Publisher and author of Write On, Sisters! wrote an essay that was featured in Salon Magazine.

Eden Prairie News published a story about Ames Sheldon, author of  Don’t Put the Boats Away.

Tyra Manning, author of Your Turn, was interviewed on the View From the Writing Instrument Podcast. 

Fox 31 Dever interviewed author and comedian, Nina G, about her new book Stutterer Interrupted.

Suspended Sentence by Janice Morgan received an excellent review from Reader Views.

Juliet Cutler, author of Among the Maasai, wrote a guest post on She Writes.

Events

Join Heather Cumiskey, author of I Love You Like That, for a book launch celebration at Barnes and Noble in Ellicott City, MD on September 7th at 1 p.m.

Join Anniqua Rana for a book launch event for Wild Boar in the Cane Field on Tuesday, September 17th at 7 p.m. at The Bindery.

Join Ilene English, author of Hippie Chick, for a book launch on Friday, September 27th at 7 p.m. at Copperfield’s Books.

Play on Words will be presenting a chapter, “Birth Canal,” from Wild Boar in the Cane Field by Anniqua Rana at Lit Crawl San Fransico on Saturday, October 19th.

Carole Bumpus, author of Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, is heading out on tour from September 5th, 2019 to 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 dates and locations.

 

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!