Blessingway Authors' Services - Ellen Kleiner

Blessingway Authors' Services Santa Fe New Mexico

Blessingway Authors' Services - Ellen Kleiner - Santa Fe, New Mexico

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
eBook conversions

Happy victories:

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.
The Brazilian edition of Eli Davidson's Funky to Fabulous: Surefire Success Strategies for the Savvy, Sassy. and Swamped sold out its first print run of 5,000 copies before rolling off the presses. Hailed as a bestseller, it was subsequently picked up for newsstand sales and a major women's products catalog.
Jonathan's Journey to Mount Miapu by Ellen Wolfson Valladares and illustrated by Maureen Burdock has been named:
- Gold Medalist, Mom's Choice Awards
- Finalist, ForeWord Book of the Year Award, YA Fiction
- Winner, COVR Visionary Award, Children's Books
- Book of the Year (2009), COVR Visionary Award
Transcendent Dreaming by Christina Donnell has received the following awards for excellence:
- Winner, 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Spirituality category
- First Place, Reviewers Choice Award 2009, Mind-Body-Spirit category
- First runner-up, Eric Hoffer Award 2009, Self-Help/Spirituality category
- Finalist, National Best Books Awards, Spirituality category
- Finalist, Montaigne Medal for most thought-provoking book of 2008
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
- Sales to date of the hardcover edition total over 75,000 copies

Come visit the new books on our Web site:

Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into Our Human Potential by Christina Donnell (Winds of Change Books, 2008)
Jonathan's Journey to Mount Miapu by Ellen Wolfson Valladares (Argami Productions, 2008)
Funky to Fabulous: Surefire Success Strategies for the Savvy, Sassy, and Swamped by Eli Davidson (Oak Grove Publishing, 2007)
Shift: Change Your Words, Change Your World by Janet Smith Warfield (Word Sculptures Publishing, 2007)
The Evolution of God by Chris Griscom (Light Institute Press, 2008)
40 Days and 1001 Nights : One Woman's Dance Through Life in the Islamic World by Tamalyn Dallal (Melati Press, 2007)
Children's Book of Yoga: Games & Exercises Mimic Plants & Animals & Objects byThia Luby
The One Command: Command Your Wealth by Asara Lovejoy