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As suppressed memories resurface, survivor of childhood sexual abuse picks up the pieces in new memoir

Patricia Eagle’s “Being Mean” to release on June 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALAMOSA, CO – Patricia Eagle was thirteen when her sexual relationship with her father – a relationship that began when she was four years old – ended. As a young woman she dreamed of love, but shame, depression, and the confusion of […]

Psychotherapists Discuss Benefits of Buddhism

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nashville, Tn – In Prescribing the Dharma (University of North Carolina Press, March 18, 2019), Dr. Ira Helderman highlights the ways in which psychotherapists integrate Buddhist practices into their treatment plans. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves, providing comprehensive insight into the diverse […]

‘The Night Visitors’ is a genre-bending thriller with smart commentary on abusive relationships and family trauma

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GRED HOOD, NY –The latest thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Lake of Dead Languages and The Other Mother is a story of mistaken identities, missed chances, forgiveness, and vengeance. Alice is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to protect ten-year-old Oren when she finds herself stepping off a bus […]

AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT AND AUTHOR TELLS STORY OF SHOELESS JOE 100 YEARS LATER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GREENWICH, CT – EMMY-nominated playwright and author Granville Wyche Burgess is releasing his latest title, “The Last At-Bat of Shoeless Joe” (May 1, 2019, Chickadee Prince Books). Set to release in time for the 100th anniversary of the Black Sox Scandal which ended Shoeless Joe’s professional baseball career in disgrace, Burgess imagines […]

Deborah Hecht Memorial Prize-Winner Sande Boritz Berger Releases New Look at ’70s Women’s Movement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York City– In Split-Level: A Novel (She Writes Press May 7th, 2019) the sexual revolution enters the Jersey suburbs and shakes up the life of a shy woman coming to terms with her own evolving identity. Sande Boritz Berger provides a breathtaking look at spousal relationships, gaslighting, emotional abuse, and the […]

FROM PRIVILEGE TO PERSONAL GROWTH: STORIES AND ADVICE FOR THE MOTIVATED MILLENNIAL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Past 1%-er outlines how to trade in wealth for a rich life in “Wise Millennial” NEW YORK, New York – They’re supposedly the “failure to launch” generation, content living at home, “influencing” on instagram, and taking a parental handout. Millennials are compared to their Baby Boomer parents and the strong economic power […]

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR WRITES OF KOREA 40 YEARS LATER IN DEBUT NOVEL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Staunton, VA – Library of Virginia Literary Award winning author of the short story collection What the Zhang Boys Know Clifford Garstang combines his international experience and Virginia roots in The Shaman of Turtle Valley (Braddock Avenue Books, May 14, 2019), which explores the healing of wounds —in families, nations, and landscape— […]

IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE, A GIRL’S GOTTA CUT A FEW CORNERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Caroline Taylor’s latest crime thriller: the hot spring release everyone’s waiting for PITTSBORO, NC– No stranger to the thriller world, veteran author Caroline Taylor is back with her latest thriller with more action, adventure, and narrow escapes. Death in Delmarva (Black Rose Writing, March 21, 2019) will keep you turning the pages […]

Writer examines ideas of justice and revenge while handling delicate subjects with sensitivity in debut novel ‘Eye for Eye’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Retrain your brain to drink less and feel better with hypnotherapist Georgia Foster CORAL GABLES, FL – J.K. Franko’s debut thriller ‘Eye for Eye’ (June 22, Talion Publishing) explores how far normal people will go, given the right circumstances, to avenge wrongs when the legal system fails them. The first book in […]

Research-based guidebook promotes happier and healthier drinking––cut back without quitting

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Retrain your brain to drink less and feel better with hypnotherapist Georgia Foster MELBOURNE, Australia – Increased alcohol consumption in society today is rarely out of the news. Most therapies and therapists offer an all-or-nothing solution—give up completely or give in to the drink. Clinical hypnotherapist Georgia Foster offers a new middle […]