What's New at Blessingway Authors' Services

New services:

• Web site design and construction for new books
• Selective agenting to trade publishers in the US

Happy victories:

• Ellen Kleiner, Ellen Kleiner, Blessingway's founder and director, was named one of the ten Outstanding Women in Independent Publishing, a new IPPY award presented at BookExpo America in May 2006.
• Elizabeth Wolf, former managing editor of John Muir Publications and past senior editor of Santa Fean magazine, has brought her stellar talents to Blessingway, where she is serving as Marketing & Publicity Coordinator.
• Hailed as a "spiritual masterpiece," God Without Religion by Sankara Saranam has received five awards for excellence:
  • Finalist, 2007 Nautilus Award, Religion/Spirituality category
  • Winner, USABookNews.com Best Books 2005 Spirituality Award
  • Winner, IPPY Award 2006, Religion Category, Independent Publisher Magazine
  • Gold Medal, 2006 Best Book of the Year, ForeWord Magazine, Religion category
  • Finalist, 2007 Nautilus Book Awards, Spirituality and Religion category
  • Featured title in ForeWord Magazine's Religion and Spirituality issue, Jan/Feb 2006
  • Featured book on www.ReligiousTolerance.org, September 2005,
  • Listed as Melissa Etheridge's “favorite book” in Organic Style magazine, October 2005
  • Translation rights to the book have recently sold to publishers in Russia, Turkey, Spain, Indonesia and Australia-New Zealand Territory
  • Domestic paperback rights were acquired by BenBella Books, a Dallas-based publisher specializing in titles about popular culture
• Build Your Money Muscles by Joan Sotkin is an award-winning finalist in the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards, Self-Help category
• Come visit the new books on our Web site:

  How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation by Sandra Ingerman (Sterling, 2007)
  Facing the Sunshine: A Young Woman’s Emergence from the Shadows of Sexual Abuse and Anorexia by Sara Jane Thornton (Soaring Wings Press, 2007)
  A Mother Goddess for Our Times: Mary's Appearances at Medjugorje by Judith T. Lambert with a foreword by Margaret Starbird (Ann Duran Productions, 2007)
  Sacred Vow by C.G. Walters (Dragon's Beard Publishing, 2006)
  Songs to the Beloved and Her Lovers by Nicholas Michael Morrow (Gaia Grove Publishing, 2008)