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Books Forward author Tori Eldridge uses Asian-Pacific pride to promote representation in literature

I can’t imagine a better place to grow up as an Asian-American, Pacific Islander than Hawaii. Our island community is predominantly Asian and mixed-race, so most of the kids I went to school with had dark hair and lovely shades of brown skin. I fit in perfectly. My mother is Chinese-Hawaiian, my father is Norwegian […]

Books Forward Authors Recognized with Awards and Accolades

We’re excited to celebrate a number of Books Forward family authors and their titles that have recently been recognized across the industry with various awards, nominations, and accolades.  The Independent Publisher Book Awards, or IPPYs, were recently announced, and there’s a host of Books Forward authors featured among the winners. Lisa Braver Moss, “Shrug,” gold […]

15 bookstagrammers to follow for Mental Health Awareness Month (with book recommendations)

May marks Mental Health Awareness Month. My dad is a psychiatrist, so I grew up in a household where talking about mental health was normalized and even encouraged (thankfully). And yet when I struggled with anxiety and depression later in my 20s, I still had trouble confronting what was going on. For me, reading books […]

10 bookstagrammers to follow for Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month (with book recommendations)

We’ve gathered some of our favorite bookstagrammers and books for API Heritage Month to diversify your feed and your TBR in May and beyond! May is Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, and we asked some of our favorite bloggers and bookstagrammers to share their recommendations to diversify your reading this month and beyond! […]

Personal stories of food addiction in ‘Saving Sara’ help readers better understand addiction

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “A riveting and deeply human memoir.” – Anne Lamott, California Hall of Fame inductee, novelist, and nonfiction writer PARIS – For nearly fifty years, Sara Somers suffered from untreated food addiction. In “Saving Sara” (She Writes Press, May 12, 2020) Somers’ intimate memoir, she offers readers an inside view of a food […]

Estee Lauder’s former VP of PR pens a tale of lust, friendship, and second chances

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “An addictive story” — Reader’s Favorite (5-star review) “An atmospheric tale that deftly captures the leisure and egos of its expensive spa setting.” — Kirkus Reviews NEW YORK – Take a peek behind the curtain of wealth and glamour in Phyllis Melhado’s sassy and sultry beach read.  The guests who arrive for […]

More than motherhood, hilarious and heartbreakingly honest memoir redefines the meaning of a modern, DIY family

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW YORK – What do you do when your boyfriend’s daughter asks you for a tampon two minutes after first meeting her? And how young is too young to curl up and watch “Borat” with said boyfriend’s son? Performer and writer Dani Alpert mulls over these questions and more in her hysterical […]