Blessingway Authors' Services

Blessingway Authors' Services Blessingway Authors' Services assists authors in effectively reaching a wide readership, both nationally and internationally. and always enlighten.

Welcome to the world of Blessingway Authors' Services. We seek to promote personal and collective freedom, healing, and love through the development of books that prize new truths over old oppressive myths. We value originality, creative ways of seeing, and unsung victories. Written with courage and personal conviction, the books we edit and produce contribute to the well-being of readers and thos

e whose lives they touch. They celebrate the cycles and expressions of nature while inspiring enhanced understanding, expanded consciousness, global cooperation, and relationships founded on peace, compassion, and respect. They help build a world that works for everyone. From the pens of new authors as well as seasoned ones, Blessingway's books are relevant to contemporary audiences yearning for wholeness in their lives and in their communities. Timely and insightful, they serve to teach, share, inform, or entertain . . . What We Do
Blessingway Authors' Services assists authors in effectively reaching a wide readership, both nationally and internationally. We guide written material through the wheels of publishing and into the literary marketplace. Some call us midwives; others, shepherds. We call ourselves writers' advocates. Although we specialize in helping writers become independent publishers, we offer a wide range of publishing services. Blessingway provides the following forms of professional assistance:

For writers seeking publication
• Editorial - book development, substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, copywriting
• Preparation of book proposal
• Links to literary agents
• Select literary agenting and contract negotiations

For writers seeking to self-publish
• Editorial - from manuscript to bound book
• Ancillary forms and applications
• Interior design and production
• Cover design and production
• Printer bids and print supervision
• Links to distributors and wholesalers

For self-publishers seeking to expand their visibility and profitability
• Foreign rights agenting
• Marketing assistance
• Promotional assistance
• Media representation

For traditional publishers seeking to outsource editorial, production, marketing, or promotion services
• Book development, substantive editing, copyediting, indexing
• Cover design
• Subsidiary rights agenting
• Print and broadcast media representation
• Website optimization

05/30/2024

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Blessingway author Christina Donnell's latest seedbed of wisdom, Encounters with Living Language, was just named a 2024 ...
05/30/2024

Blessingway author Christina Donnell's latest seedbed of wisdom, Encounters with Living Language, was just named a 2024 Nautilus Book Award winner, the silver medal recipient in the category World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development. This intimate book, free of spiritual dogma, shows how words, in inviting us to surrender to their unifying potential, can awaken within us an awareness essential to human survival: the felt sense of a wider cosmic net of relationships to one another and the rest of the living world. We are thrilled to see its tendrils reaching into that world.

Standing ovations for Blessingway author Lee Sumner Irwin, whose first book, Radiant Wise Woman: Breaking Free from the ...
06/25/2023

Standing ovations for Blessingway author Lee Sumner Irwin, whose first book, Radiant Wise Woman: Breaking Free from the Myths of Menopause and Aging, has been ranked in the top 10 of the highly competitive Mind, Body, and Spirit category at the Independent Book Publishers Association’s 35th annual contest. IBPA’s reviewers hail the book as “encouraging and invigorating,” “a great book to read,” “well written,” “accessible to readers at any level [including] men interested in supporting the menopausal women in their lives in a meaningful way.” In the words of one reviewer: “Reading the prose is like chatting with a loving friend.… A book that can be referred to again and again, or passed on to other women [entering] into the mysteries and illumination of elderhood.” Irwin just might be succeeding in her mission to awaken readers’ wild hearts and or****ic wisdom.

A deep bow to insightful Christina Donnell, whose Encounters with Living Language, hailed by Andrew Harvey as a “clear w...
05/16/2023

A deep bow to insightful Christina Donnell, whose Encounters with Living Language, hailed by Andrew Harvey as a “clear wise book [that] will bring all who read it benefit and inspiration,” was named an Inspirational Nonfiction finalist in the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. At its heart is the recognition that entering into a more profound relationship with language may help elevate our awareness and move us along an evolutionary trajectory. To learn more, visit https://www.christinadonnell.com.

Living Language Gets Fresh InkClinical psychologist and covert visionary Christina Donnell received a curious inquiry fr...
04/17/2023

Living Language Gets Fresh Ink
Clinical psychologist and covert visionary Christina Donnell received a curious inquiry from a reader of her riveting new book, Encounters with Living Language: Surrendering to the Power of Words. The woman wanted permission to tattoo a line from chapter 7—“I want to know where the wind gathers its strength so I can go there”—on her body, a befitting request for a book about somatic-sensory impressions of words. Talk about embodying language!

Straight through the Labyrinth: Becoming a Gay Father in China by Princeton-based sinologist Peter Rupert Lighte, foundi...
11/09/2022

Straight through the Labyrinth: Becoming a Gay Father in China by Princeton-based sinologist Peter Rupert Lighte, founding chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank China, was launched just in time for National Adoption Month (November). Hailed as “a dazzling story” that’s “hugely important,” it chronicles the travails surmounted by Hong Kong’s first adoptive gay father in pursuing his dream of parenting an orphaned baby girl from China—and soon after, a second one. In the words of an Amazon reviewer: “The story of Lighte’s odyssey through China’s adoption bureaucracy is hair-raising and heart-breaking…. It’s not just that it’s well written, it’s also filled with passion. . . . Lighte’s candor, his openness, his self-awareness, all contribute to the reader’s understanding of the author’s drive to parenthood against all odds. In this historic time in our nation, this is the kind of story that reminds me of the good in the world.”

Peter Lighte, now the father of two Barnard women, will be discussing the book with Rabbi Gil Steinlauf at the Princeton Public Library on November 15 at 7:30 pm EST. To view the event live, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzIGrOOtNkA.

Lesley Lowe’s first book, Autumn Gold, receives another rave review. This riveting story of her daughter’s heroic fight ...
05/27/2022

Lesley Lowe’s first book, Autumn Gold, receives another rave review. This riveting story of her daughter’s heroic fight with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer, is not only a tribute to the young, spunky, brilliant biracial attorney but also a testament to the beauty and power of her connection with nature. Reader Views calls it “an intelligently put-together text that is full of blazing themes and emotional shifts in its characters.” The reviewer adds: “Lowe’s ardent writing summons the reader’s emotions, giving the text an overall emotional sweep. This book deserves 5 stars on account of its adroit characterization, which alone makes this an imperative read.”

Brava! to Lee Sumner Irwin for the rave review from BookLife on the launch of Radiant Wise Woman: Breaking Free from the...
04/15/2022

Brava! to Lee Sumner Irwin for the rave review from BookLife on the launch of Radiant Wise Woman: Breaking Free from the Myths of Menopause and Aging. Her book, rich with wisdom teachings and leading-edge research, demonstrates that the often misunderstood season of life known as menopause is actually a portal leading to the full flowering of a woman’s creativity and intuition.

Says BookLife: “Readers discouraged by our culture’s sidelining of older women will find empowerment and inspiration in this myth-busting guidebook.

“Great for fans of: Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s Women Who Run With the Wolves, Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman
“Production grades
Editing: A
Design and typography: A
Marketing copy: A”

Applause to Lesley Lowe, author of Autumn Gold: A Rendezvous with Cancer, Knowing Death Is Not Final, for glowing recogn...
03/10/2022

Applause to Lesley Lowe, author of Autumn Gold: A Rendezvous with Cancer, Knowing Death Is Not Final, for glowing recognition following its recent launch. Her book recounts the story of her daughter Vashti, a vibrant biracial Albuquerque attorney who, diagnosed with multiple myeloma in her early thirties, unexpectedly reunites with the love of her life. Thus interwoven with her courageous eighteen-month battle with cancer—including two bone marrow transplants—is a deepening love story, uplifting her each step of the way as she bravely faces death on her own terms. A review in the Albuquerque Journal at the start of Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month dubs the book “a deeply personal story of love, loss, and courage,” saying it “will warm your heart . . . and break your heart.” A recent interview with Lesley on KSFR’s “The Last Word” can be found at https://thelastword.libsyn.com/.

Hearty felicitations to Daniel Fallon on his book’s first two reviews, both 5-star ratings. His mysterious and deeply hu...
08/11/2021

Hearty felicitations to Daniel Fallon on his book’s first two reviews, both 5-star ratings. His mysterious and deeply humane book, Love’s Legacy: Viscount Chateaubriand and the Irish Girl, chronicles his search for hidden meaning in two letters addressed in 1817 to his great-great-grandfather by French romantic writer François-René de Chateaubriand. As clever as it is wise, the narrative portrays the surprising impact people’s lives can have on those born centuries later.

Readers’ Favorite historical reviewer Grant Leishman notes: “An air of discovery and excitement in every page . . . kept me totally enthralled. I can highly recommend this read.” Irene Valentine, also with Readers’ Favorite, writes: “This engaging account highlights the value of education in developing a curious and creative mind.... I recommend Love’s Legacy also for the sheer pleasure of its delicious wordsmithing. This story of five generations, delivered in a concise book with nothing extraneous, but with several historical documents and portraits, is a feat in itself. May this dedicated work of nonfiction prompt many to record and preserve their family history for their own Love’s Legacy.”

Daniel Fallon, professor emeritus of psychology and professor emeritus of public policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, works as a higher education consultant and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more information or to place an order, please visit loveslegacybook.com.

Rarely has a work of fiction about an adolescent runaway emerged as a teaching story so early in its gestation. Even bef...
04/24/2021

Rarely has a work of fiction about an adolescent runaway emerged as a teaching story so early in its gestation. Even before The Car Thief: A Boy’s Perilous Journey through the Juvenile Justice System by Vicki Reed went to press in February, it had become a Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ) book club selection. Within days of its release in March, Vicki was a guest speaker on the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast aired in 121 countries by the California-based Global Center for Women & Justice. Also in March a social work professor and a law school professor recommended the book as mandatory reading for their classes, and it became required staff reading for the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program of Ohio Valley. Rosemary Conder, executive director of the program, calls The Car Thief “the perfect tool” for those charged with increasing the understanding of traumatic injustices children experience. In her words: “The Car Thief engaged me from the first paragraph. The fictional story has so many elements familiar to many of the children we see in our community. While the story paints heartbreaking images, it also offers hope, encouragement, and a challenge for providers….This book can help our volunteer Advocates understand some of the unique needs of the children they serve, while stimulating conversations around local policies, bias, and ‘what if’ scenarios.” Bravo to our author Vicki Reed and her publisher Soaring Wings Press for a tender, often humorous, trauma-informed tale of the power of love in transforming today’s juvenile justice system. The book is available through the publisher’s website, nobadkid.com, at an introductory discount.

Debra Rosenman’s irresistible call of the wild scores again, this time as the winning pick in two categories by the New ...
11/01/2020

Debra Rosenman’s irresistible call of the wild scores again, this time as the winning pick in two categories by the New York City Big Book Award, a competition judged on presentation, editorial quality, and audience appeal. To date, The Chimpanzee Chronicles: Stories of Heartbreak and Hope from Behind the Bars, endorsed by Jane Goodall and other distinguished humanitarians, has garnered much praise and 9 accolades from the book trade in 2020. The laurels:

Gold Medal –IP Awards (Anthology)

Best – NYC Big Book Award (Anthology)

Winner – Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Animals)

Winner – International Book Awards (Best New Nonfiction)

Winner – Next Generation Indie Book Awards (General Nonfiction)

Finalist – International Book Awards (Anthologies: Nonfiction)

Finalist –Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Anthology)

2nd place Grand Prize Winner – Next Generation Indie Book Award (Best Overall Nonfiction)

Distinguished Favorite—NYC Big Book Award (Interior Book Design)

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