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Besides helping many writers improve their manuscripts and publish independently, Fearless Literary develops a limited number of projects for direct representation to publishers. As an affiliate of the Linda Chester Agency since 2023, we currently specialize in the nonfiction fields of contemporary spirituality, human potential, health & fitness, memoir, and the arts. Click here for our submissions guide.
SOLD or PUBLISHED TITLES BY:
MARIA FELIPE MEREDITH HELLER DIANA HILL PhD
DANA MARROCCO PhD REBEKAH McCLASKEY ROY PARVIN
SARAH ANNE SHOCKLEY WENDY SMITH PhD
REV. NHIEN VUONG CORINNE ZUPKO
SOLD: In 2025, Bloomsbury will publish BEFORE THEIR CRIMES: What We're Misunderstanding about Childhood Trauma, Youth Crime, and the Path to Healing by Wendy Smith, PhD.
This ground-breaking book sheds new light on the relationship of childhood trauma and juvenile crime. Author Wendy Smith PhD, LCSW, a professor and scholar of child welfare, not only reveals the pernicious mechanisms that link early trauma to later crime, but also illuminates the potential for healing among even the most egregious offenders.
Twenty men and women from across the racial and social divide who committed serious crimes as children and spent years in prison describe perilous childhoods, unthinkable crimes, and the terror of growing up in prison. They tell us how they had to dodge or embrace brutality to survive, and how they ultimately willed themselves to transform their lives.
Before Their Crimes illustrates that the human capacity to heal and transform can survive against all odds.
SOLD: In 2025, Colorado publisher SOUNDS TRUE will release WISE EFFORT: The Science and Practice of Putting Your Energy Where
It Matters Most, by Diana Hill, PhD. The book will offer high achievers in any field of endeavor a new way to overcome burnout, manage stress, and let go of perfectionism, productivity anxiety, and externally motivated striving.
Using cutting-edge, science-backed practices from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and time-tested contemplative wisdom, WISE EFFORT outlines a practical path to the goals we really long for, but may not even be aware of: purpose, embodiment, interrelatedness, and an inner sense of “enoughness".
Diana is a psychologist, mom, and co-author of ACT Daily Journal: Get Unstuck and Live Fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; The ACT Daily Card Deck; and the upcoming 2024 book The Compassion Daily Journal (all titles published by New Harbinger). She hosts the podcast Your Life in Process, blogs for Psychology Today, and teaches on Insight Timer Meditation. For more information see her website.
SOLD: Fearless Literary is pleased to announce the placement of the first book by Rev. Nhien Vuong, THE ENNEAGRAM OF SOUL, for publication in early 2025 by Hampton Roads Publishing. A major new voice in the transformative teaching tradition known as the Enneagram, Nhien is also an attorney, Unity Minister, and educational entrepreneur. The book showcases a 40-day inter-spiritual companion guide for our heroic journey toward a more conscious, authentic, and inspired life. This book will support individuals in experiencing greater freedom from the fixation of their personality types, one day at a time, with a refreshingly practical compilation of Enneagram-informed contemplative practices, prayers, and daily reminders. A native of Vietnam whose family escaped the fall of Saigon in 1975, Nhien was raised in southern California and currently resides in Kansas City. There she runs "Evolving Enneagram," an educational consortium providing personal coaching, courses, and presentations on a worldwide basis. Learn more about Rev. Nhien and her community-based transformational work at www.evolvingenneagram.com.
PUBLISHED: Fearless Literary is pleased to announce the release of Meredith Heller's book WRITE A POEM, SAVE YOUR LIFE! A Guide for Teens, Teachers, and Writers of All Ages by New World Library of Novato, CA. A performing poet and singer/songwriter with graduate degrees in writing and education, Meredith is a California Poet in the Schools. She leads private poetry writing workshops for teens and adults online, teaches in Marin County schools and at Juvenile Hall. Meredith received a fellowship to The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and went on to complete her graduate work in writing and education. She attended Naropa University's graduate program in Writing and Poetics, and continued at Goddard College to study creative process and alternative models of education. Meredith is a frequent contributor to Rebelle Society & We’Moon; her work has also appeared in Quiet Lightning, The Aquarian, Avocet, and the book Women, Their Names, & The Stories They Tell. She is the author of the chapbook SONGLINES (Finishing Line Press, 2019). See her website here.
NOTE: In the spring of 2024, New World Library published Meredith's second book WRITING BY HEART: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self-Discovery. This volume invites you to write as a path toward self-understanding and as a lifelong refuge of steadfast friendship with yourself. In this book, Meredith shares the techniques she developed to help people from all walks of life explore their emotions, find their voice, and better navigate life’s challenges. Filled with potent exercises and inspiring poems from the author and her students, Writing by Heart is a must-read for anyone, from seasoned writer to novice, who wants to discover the transformative power of writing.
PUBLISHED: Addressing a "vast untapped audience of yoga practitioners consisting of multitudes of men too prideful or mortified to ever attempt a Downward Dog in front of a woman," Roy Parvin (pictured here with his wife Janet Vail) writes in the authorial voice of "Yoga Matt" to offer a basic introduction to this timeless health discipline in YOGA FOR THE INFLEXIBLE MALE (Ten Speed Press, 2019). Roy is also the award-winning author of two books of fiction, with his short stories being widely anthologized and included in the Best American Short Stories series; he has also been awarded an NEA grant and Breadloaf Fellowship. Janet has over 25 years experience in book production, shepherding many projects from manuscripts to bound and published books. The yoga teaching in this book is based on the popular male-only classes of Jerry Sinclair, an ex-competitive wrestler with 23 years experience practicing and teaching yoga. Meet Roy and Janet on Facebook, and visit Roy's website. Read the Fearless interview with Roy, "The Yoga of Sleep," here.
PUBLISHED: New World Library has released a new edition of Sarah Anne Shockley's independently published book, THE PAIN COMPANION: Everyday Wisdom for Living with and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain, featuring a foreword by Dr. Bernie S. Siegel. A native of Connecticut living in northern California, Sarah is a multiple award-winning producer and director of educational films, including Dancing From the Inside Out, a highly acclaimed documentary on disabled dance. Her first book, Traveling Incognito, a guidebook for international travelers, won a Critic's Choice Award (San Francisco Review of Books). As the result of a work related injury in 2007, Sarah contracted Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) and has lived with debilitating nerve pain since then. She is a columnist for Pain News Network, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. See her range of resources for those living with chronic pain at the Pain Companion website and Facebook page. The book is now also available in Chinese.
PUBLISHED: the first book by Dana Marrocco, PhD is a lead title for the new "Ixia" self-improvement imprint of Dover Publications in New York. In TOP TEN LIES WE TELL OURSELVES (And How to Stop Living Them). "Dr. Dana" brings her professional background in educational psychology and the spiritual inspiration of A Course in Miracles to a light-hearted but profound discussion of the most common self-deceptions that keep people from living happy and creative lives. The Foreword was contributed by Gary Renard, author of the popular "Disappearance of the Universe" series, and the previous reigning comedian in the field. Claiming to have been "blonded by the Light," Dr. Dana speaks, sings, and performs "self-help stand-up" at local spiritual centers and retreats. Experience Dr. Dana's style in her video series entitled "Did You Forget to Laugh?" and connect with her on Facebook or her website.
PUBLISHED: Fearless Literary is pleased to announce the publication of Corinne Zupko's book FROM ANXIETY TO LOVE: Working with Your Inner Therapist to Find Lasting Peace (New World Library). Corinne began her study of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) in 1997 after struggling with debilitating anxiety and panic attacks, and following its discipline has totally undone the high stress she used to live with. Her book shares with readers her method for using ACIM and other resources to recognize and work with one's "Inner Therapist" to live a peaceful and productive life. Corinne is a keynote speaker, Adjunct Professor of Counselor Education, licensed counselor, coach, and mindfulness meditation teacher at Bank of America. Try Corinne’s ACIM-inspired meditation and connect with her on Facebook.
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PUBLISHED: Fearless Literary is pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of BREAKUP REHAB: Twelve New Steps for Starting Over Stronger (New World Library, 2017; originally self-published) by Rebekah McClaskey, M.A. Rebekah is a clairvoyant relationship counselor with a private practice that specializes in changing lives so that clients can experience fulfilling relationships and start over stronger after break-ups. Her training with 12-Step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous, her work with veterans suffering from PTSD, and her education from Naropa University in Boulder have all contributed to her kind, earthy, and no-nonsense style of advice. Meet Rebekah on her website and Facebook.
PUBLISHED: Fearless Literary placed the first book by Rev. Maria Felipe of Los Angeles, entitled LIVE YOUR HAPPY: Getting Over Yourself to Find the Love Within, with New World Library, the publisher of such authors as Shakti Gawain, Dan Millman, and Eckhart Tolle. An accomplished actress who was the first female Hispanic boxing announcer and host of the WWF (now World Wrestling Entertainment) show "Los Super Astros," Maria acquired her ministerial certification through Pathways of Light in 2012 and has since dedicated herself to the teachings of A Course in Miracles. Also in a Spanish translation, her book presents her direct, high-energy approach to achieving genuine happiness through living the radical principles of the Course.
After five years with New World, Maria took over the English edition in 2023 as her own publisher, with the assistance of Fearless Literary. Learn more about Maria at her website or on Facebook. Her second book, LIVE YOUR HAPPIEST, will be released in April 2025.
