Our author has a new national radio show:

Susyn Reeve, author of The Inspire Life: Unleashing Your Mind's Capacity for Joy, is co-hosting On Purpose Radio with Rikk Hansen, founder of Brilliant NEXT.

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The Inspired Life: Unleashing Your Mind's Capacity for Joy

(PRWEB) March 21, 2013

Join the On-Purpose Blog Talk radio show with Susyn Reeve and Rikk Hansen as they open doors to discover and live a lifework that’s alive with purpose. Susyn and Rikk share compelling conversations with midlife professionals, entrepreneurs, experts and authors successfully doing work that expresses their purpose and passion.

This Thursday, March 21, Noon Central will be the first of 2 episodes introducing the show and hosts.

For more details, visit: http://OnPurposeShow.com

Susyn Reeve, is the creator of The Self Esteem ToolKit, best-selling author of The Inspired Life and award winning author of Choose Peace & Happiness.

She has 35 years experience as a Corporate Consultant, Coach and InterFaith Minister. Her clients have included: American Express, New York University, Exxon, Continental Airlines, The Metropolitan Museum and Young Presidents Organization. She has been a delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Rikk Hansen is one of the nation’s leading experts in guiding midlife professionals and entrepreneurs to discover a lifework that’s really their calling. During his 26 years in the career and leadership development field he has guided thousands of women and men through major lifework transitions – to rekindle purpose and passion for their next lifework chapter.

Currently, as founder at Brilliant NEXT, he has pioneered a system called "New Fire Discover" that guides midlife women and men to find certainty of purpose and exciting direction for their next fulfilling work - in a short period of time and despite any obstacles, fears, or doubt.

Imagine being connected to an infinite source of loving energy and feeling whole, happy and content. Imagine experiencing life as a source of limitless creative possibility. Susyn Reeve contends that everyone has a wellspring of limitless creativity and drive within to achieve that sense of fulfillment. In The Inspired Life: Unleashing your Mind’s Capacity for Joy, Reeve, with Joan Breiner, offers proven tools to access inspiration, no matter how deeply buried.

Proud and grateful:

Viva Editions: Books for Inspired Living Proudly Announces Author Carole Brody Fleet's Happily Even After wins the Books for a Better Life Award

Books for a Better Life is one of the most prestigious awards in book publishing. Happily Even After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) the Grief of Widowhood, by award-winning Carole Brody Fleet, founder and CEO of Widows Wear Stilettos, is in the running for the Relationships Award.

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Happily Even After: Getting Through (and Beyond) The Grief of Widowhood

Learning to live happily after the experience of devastating loss is among the most important lessons that can ever be taught.
—Marci Shimoff, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul

Happily Even After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) the Grief of Widowhood is in the running for the Relationships Books for a Better Life Award.

Brenda Knight, Associate Publisher of Viva Editions, acquired Happily Even After having experienced widowhood herself said, "This is the book I wish I had at the time. I feel incredibly proud of Carole's book, essential reading for anyone experiencing grief. Now it can get to many more people who need it thanks to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Our intention all along was to get this book to widows, young and old, as well as "widows of the heart," partners not in legally joined relationships. Carole's heart, humor, and practical guidelines cover everything from finances, dealing with children, living single in a couple's world, and more. Carole's courage in sharing her own experiences and those of others is invaluable to anyone who's lost a spouse or life partner."

About the Book
The issues that surround the loss of a spouse are numerous and complex. The widowed must find a way to accept and deal with conflicting and confusing emotions while being expected to "carry on and carry forward." They must also adjust financially and legally and be available to children that inevitably look to their surviving parent for guidance and support. Happily Even After answers the most common questions that the widowed have, both immediately following a spouse's death and in the months and even years after. In her warm, witty, and wise tone, Carole walks widows through the shock and overwhelming sadness and back into the land of the living. Whether a young woman in the early years of a marriage, a golden anniversary celebrant, or a "widow of the heart" who lost a significant other with no legal claims, Fleet offers practical tools.

About the Author:
Carole Brody Fleet is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Widows Wear Stilettos, Inc. Widely recognized as a leader and expert in the areas of grief and loss recovery, Ms. Fleet is a regular guest on national and international TV and radio shows. She has been featured in many magazines, newspapers and websites, and is recipient of the Embrace Life Award from State Farm Insurance Companies and the Board of Directors Outstanding Service Award from the Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation. She is also one of Huffington Post's most popular bloggers. Carole Brody Fleet resides with her family in Southern California.

About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the founder and sponsor of the Books for a Better Life Award:
Since its inception in 1996, Books for a Better Life has recognized more than 650 self-improvement authors and has now raised more than $1.9 million for the New York City - Southern New York Chapter’s comprehensive support services and educational programs for people living with MS, their friends and families. The Awards recognize self-improvement authors whose messages are aligned with the chapter’s mission of inspiring people to live their best lives. The National MS Society is a collective of passionate individuals who want to do something about MS now—to move together toward a world free of multiple sclerosis. MS stops people from moving. We exist to make sure it doesn't. We help each person address the challenges of living with MS through our 50-state network of chapters. The Society helps people affected by MS by funding cutting-edge research, driving change through advocacy, facilitating professional education, and providing programs and services that help people with MS and their families move their lives forward.

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From Annus horribilus to a turnaround year:

Cleis Press and Viva Editions Named One of the Fastest Growing Publishers of 2013 by Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly, the preeminent trade publication for the publishing industry, named Cleis Press and Viva Editions one of the fastest growing small presses in North America.

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The Painted Word

(PRWEB) March 11, 2013

Smart marketing, diligent sale efforts, and a list of excellent books helped make this possible for the company. Read what Publishers Weekly had to say about Cleis Press and Viva Editions here.

“If you has asked me to predict how 2012 would end for Cleis and Viva,” said founding publisher and CFO Felice Newman, “I would never have guessed that we would wind up having our best year ever. In an industry that is contracting, we don’t give up—it only makes us work harder so we can grow and sustain ourselves year after year. We truly have something for every reader, and it’s nice to see our books continue to find their audiences.”

Significant publicity hits helped harvest excellent Q4 sales. Phil Cousineau, author of The Painted Word, was on NPR and Wisconsin Public Radio, which sent his book soaring in sales. Karen West of The Book Passage stated, “We had never seen such walk-in customer demand for a book as after Phil Cousineau was on with Michael Krasny and KQED Forum. Keep him on the radio!” Tony Burroughs did a 30-city Intenders roadshow for Get What You Want, selling books by the case in each Intenders Circle all across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.

Viva Editions has a group of indefatigable workshop warriors such as Allen Klein, author of The Art of Living Joyfully and Inspiration for a Lifetime, who does his own backroom sales in his travels speaking at hospitals, banks, and corporations. Carole Brody Fleet, founder of Widows Wear Stilettos and author of Happily Even After, is a motivational speaker with Camp Widow and Soaring Spirit Foundation as well as the Navy SEALs and military families dealing with loss.

The January 2013 sales were twice those of January 2012—trending well with advance sales to the trade and non-returnable special sales. Tristan Taormino, author of The Ultimate Guide to Kink, has become the spokesperson for “the real Fifty Shades of Grey.” She has been on E! Entertainment TV five times, which has sold out the print run of her book, as well as of her other book Opening Up.

2012 was also a boom year for audio books for Cleis Press and Viva Editions, especially for the backlist. Frenzy: 60 Stories of Sudden Sex was number one in the romance and erotica category multiple times, and has sold thousands of audio copies. Audible Editor-at-Large, Susie Bright, the legendary sexpert, curated a selection of Cleis Press classics, including multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov by Paul Russell.

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