IT’S OK TO GO UP THE SLIDE, Heather Shumaker
When it comes to parenting, sometimes you have to trust your gut. With her first book, It’s OK Not to Share, blogger and national speaker on parenting, Heather Shumaker, overturned all the conventional rules of parenting with her “renegade rules” for raising competent and compassionate kids. In It’s Ok To Go Up the Slide: Renegade […]
ENTICING BENEDICT COLE, Eliza Redgold
An artist, a lady, a secret passion… When Benedict Cole shuns her request for painting lessons, Lady “Cameo” Catherine Mary St. Clair takes matters into her own hands. She arrives at Benedict’s studio, only to be mistaken for a model! It’s an opportunity she just can’t turn down… Benedict knows better than to let intimacy interfere […]
LIFT AND SEPARATE, Marilyn Simon Rothstein
The Ephron sisters meets Jennifer Weiner in a hilarious novel about what happens when a middle-aged woman’s husband, owner of a lingerie empire, Bountiful Bosoms, leaves her for his 32DD twenty two-year old fitting model. In the wake of the most humiliating event of her life, she seeks reconciliation and revenge, and finds friendship and […]
The Secrets of Mindful Beauty, Elizabeth Reid-Boyd and Jessica Moncrieff-Boyd
The first beauty book to apply mindfulness to daily beauty regimens, proving that the mind is the most powerful beauty tool we have, by an Australian mother/daughter team, both experts in body image. (World Rights, Skyhorse Publishing, Spring 2017).
LOVE THE HOUSE YOU’RE IN, Paige Rien
Stop hating your house and start adoring it—40 steps to make your home express who you are and work for how you really live. PAIGE RIEN, interior designer, mother of four, and passionate home lover, wants you to love where you live and believes you can do the work to get there. She consults with families […]
Why Literary Agents May Give You the Cold Shoulder
It’s often said that it is tougher to get a literary agent to represent you than to find a publisher. That may well be true! And yet, it’s essential these days to have representation. With rapid-fire changes in the industry, including consolidation and the inevitable contraction that accompanies it, the chances of getting published by […]
PEREGRINE SPRING, Nancy Cowan
Nancy Cowan’s memoir of her thirty years living intimately with raptors (Lyons Press, March 2016), gives us a new perspective on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Cowan shares her experiences running a world-famous falconry school, and the lessons she’s learned from her birds. From retrieving her falcon from the local police “lock […]
SEARCHING FOR SAPPHO: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
“Philip Freeman’s Searching for Sappho provides students and general readers with readable translations and interpretations of all the surviving poems and fragments, including those most recently discovered. As it reconstructs Sappho’s life, it offers a lively picture of ancient Greek women’s daily experience within their families and communities. Finally, it conveys a sense of the […]
Where I Write: Jennifer Lynn Alvarez
This edition of “Where I Write” is from Jennifer Alvarez author of the Guardian Herd Series from Harper Collins Childrens Books. The third book of the series LANDFALL releases today! And don’t miss the first two books STARFIRE and STORMBOUND. “I write a minimum of five days a week in my home office, but I do a lot […]
Daughters of Divorce by Terry Gaspard and Tracy Clifford
Restore your faith in love and build healthy, successful relationships with this essential guide for every woman haunted by her parents’ divorce. Over 40 percent of Americans ages eighteen to forty are children of divorce. Yet women with divorced parents are more than twice as likely than men to get divorced themselves and struggle in […]