She Writes Press imprint: 299 books

• 55% of Americans say they think about the meaning and purpose of life. (Pew Research Center) • 89% of Americans say they believe in God or a higher power. (Pew Research Center) • 4 out of 10 Americans say they have not discovered a satisfying life purpose. (Center for Disease Control) •...

• Fiction buyers in every category are predominantly female. • Women read more books than men, especially fiction. • Book groups consist almost entirely of women, and the recent proliferation of literary blogs are populated mainly by women. • The most likely person to read a book in any format...

• Every 67 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s. • Almost two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women. • There are more than 15 million caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s, and more than 60 percent of them are women. • Nearly 15 percent of caregivers for...

• Every year, over 867,000 Americans are affected by natural disasters. (PreventionWeb) • House fires cause more than 6.5 billion dollars in damage in the US each year. (FEMA) • Since the Great Recession, more than half of American adults have either lost jobs or seen a cut in their pay, and...

• Southern/Christian fiction and Historical are two historically best-selling genres, and this book fits nicely into both categories. • Strong elements of magical realism lift this novel beyond a story about familiar themes of racism and religious prejudice in The Old South to a contemporary spiritual...

• Targeting talks and presentations at bookstores, conferences, reading groups, historical associations and museums • Author will organize book giveaways • Promotion via Facebook, Twitter, author’s website, and author’s blog, Views from a Window Seat • Author will offer a downloadable discussion guide for book clubs on her website

• Bay Area readings and book signings at bookstores in San Francisco (targeted); and Santa Rosa (confirmed at Best Wishes) • Confirmed book review in North Coast Catholic • Confirmed author interview in The Urban Release • Long-lead publicity campaign to book review editors and women’s interest...

• Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year. (NAMI) • Nearly 700,000 children are abused in the U.S annually. (National Children’s Alliance) • According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 21.5 million American...

• Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and invaded Eastern Ukraine, the plight of Ukraine has continued to attract much media attention; this book offers an intimate portrait of a time just before that invasion and the subsequent return of a Russian presence in both Central and Eastern Europe. •...

• More than 189,000 Americans lost a father in WWII and more than 200,00 lost a parent in the Vietnam War. • Data from the US Census Bureau show that there are 76.4 million baby boomers alive today, and scores are turning to genealogy, many hoping to trace and locate lost members of their family....

• Approximately 6.5 million people in the United States have an intellectual disability. Special Olympics notes that 1-3 percent of the global population may have an intellectual disability—as many as 200 million people. According to the IRIS Domestic Violence Center, an estimated 2-4 million...

In the United States today, more than 11 million children five years of age and under spend part of each day in the professional care of 21 million early childhood caregivers. Anyone connected to this field, whether they be administrators, teachers, parents, mental health consultants, early childhood...

Our family legacies, both positive and negative, are passed down from one generation to the next in ways that are not fully understood. This secondary form of trauma, which Gita Baack calls “Inherited Trauma,” has not received adequate attention—a failing that perpetuates cycles of pain, hatred,...

Numerous women in our culture have experienced shame, degradation, and despair as a result of having been sexually traumatized early in life. Some of these women end up in unhappy marriages or abusive relationships; some fall prey to a variety of addictions, silently or publicly; and some find themselves...