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 […]
SEARCH AND RESCUE: A Wilderness Doctor’s Life and Death Tales, Christopher Van Tilburg, MD
In the sequel to MOUNTAIN RESCUE DOCTOR, an emergency wilderness physician on Mt. Hood explores the risks and rewards of outdoor adventure through dramatic stories. (Falcon/Rowman & Littlefield, World Rights, Fall 2017)
UNRETIREMENT, Chris Farrell (Paperback)
The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist and American Public Media radio host of Marketplace, Chris Farrell, we are instead on […]
IDENTITY CRISIS, Melissa Schorr
In her debut Young Adult novel from Merit Press, Melissa Schorr spins a riveting tale of social media revenge. Who does she think she is? Annalise’s audacious freshman-year hookup with Cooper Franklin has a trio of friends thirsting for revenge. So they catfish Annalise by creating the perfect virtual guy, with Noelle playing along reluctantly […]
Wuebben
Jon Wuebben Jon Wuebben is the CEO of Content Launch, which offers the first content marketing software built for small and medium sized businesses (SMB’s) and digital agencies. Content Launch also provides content writing and content strategy services for hundreds of companies and digital agencies. In his book, Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web & Mobile, Jon explains […]
Where I Write: Carol Masciola
This edition of WHERE I WRITE is from Carol Masciola, author of the Young Adult novel THE YEARBOOK published by Merit Press “I write just about anywhere, on notebooks of the lowest possible quality, with cheap pens. I find that pens discovered on the sidewalk or stolen from the bank write the best stories. If conditions […]
Raygorodetsky
Gleb Raygorodetsky Award-winning authorIndigenous peoples’ allyNational Geographic Explorer For over two decades, Gleb has worked with and for Indigenous communities and their allies around the world on traditional resource management, traditional governance, sacred sites, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and Biocultural Diversity. Born and raised in a small village on the Bering Sea coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, […]
SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT, Kristi Hedges
From the author of The Power of Presence, a research-based guide that uncovers the real reasons why so many leaders though they diligently follow the supposed rules of good communication often fall flat with their audience and what they should be doing instead to deliver messages that truly inspire (Amacom, World Rights, Spring 2017)