Rise BOOKSHOP
Each season of Rise Books is like its own constellation.
Each offering different elements of what it means to be human, and what it means to celebrate the deep magic within us all.
In the first year, Rise Books will be publishing six authors, including founder Kristen McGuiness, wonder witch Amy Miranda, creativity coach Maggie Boxey, body acceptance activist Ryan Sheldon, memoirist Emily Redondo, and astrologer Nada Yousif.
Ryan Sheldon
Kristen McGuiness
RISE AUTHORS
We believe an author shouldn’t be judged based on the size of their following, but on the quality of their stories.
With distribution from Simon & Schuster, we are committed to supporting emerging authors with stories powerful enough to build a platform, creating conversation, community, and inspired activism.
Nada Yousif
Emily Redondo
Maggie Boxey
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Live Through This
A Novel by Kristen McGuiness
Live Through This is Kristen's debut novel, set in 2016 at the edge of our modern times. After Jane Ambrose’s mediocre middle-aged life is upended by a mass shooting, she is forced to face her complicated past but also her complicated marriage in order to find her voice in the gun control debate, and within her own life.
RELEASE DATE | 10.10.2023
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The 3 Things
By Maggie Boxey
Through Maggie's drunken youth, she was reminded by her preacher father of The 3 Things: you are part of a family, be true to yourself, and glorify God in all that you do. As Maggie shares in this transformational book, those old truths help us to build community, contemplation, and creativity in our collective recovery and in our lives.
RELEASE DATE | 5.07.2024
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F*ckboys Are Boring
By Ryan Sheldon
F*ckboys Are Boring is the first of its kind - a gay man's guide to navigating the toxic world of modern dating, written for everyone. Body acceptance activist and model Ryan Sheldon offers a new approach to finding the right one, breaking our addiction to attraction, and helping readers to attract real love.
RELEASE DATE | 9.3.2024
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CONNECTION
BY RABBI ASHER GOTTESMAN
Connection: The Easiest Solution to the World's Greatest Problem is a series of 36 conversations with Rabbi Asher Gottesman on the ways we can all reconnect--through what we believe, what we do, what we say, and what we embody--in order to find recovery, healing, and the lost art of human connection.
RELEASE DATE | 4.8.2025
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Rewrite the Mother Code
BY GERTRUDE LYONS
In Rewrite the Mother Code, Dr. Gertrude Lyons challenges the limiting beliefs and expands the concepts around what it is to be a mother. Rewrite the Mother Code is a celebration of motherhood, bringing spirituality and community back into the experience and empowering women to be what they truly are, the ultimate creators.
RELEASE DATE | 5.13.2025
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The Astrology of Healing
By Nada Yousif
Merging astrological theory with traditional approaches to trauma, The Astrology of Healing offers a unique understanding of the stars. Nada's work helps readers to recognize their assigned wounds, natal promise, and how astrology can not only determine our fate, but empower our future.
RELEASE DATE | 8.12.2025
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Wife Mother Drunk
BY EMILY REDONDO
Wife Mother Drunk is an intergenerational memoir recounting the author's harrowing struggle with alcoholism, and tracing it back through her ancestry to the times of pioneers, when the seeds of trauma were first planted, long before they overtook her otherwise loving life.
RELEASE DATE | 10.25.2025
Rise Team
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Kristen McGuiness
Founder + Publisher
Kristen is a best-selling author, editor, and long-standing publishing professional. After spending the first decade of her career working in editorial for Simon & Schuster and Harper Collins, as well as in film development at Warner Brothers, Kristen wrote the bestselling memoir, 51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life. Her most recent book, Live Through This, is being a released in October 2023. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, Shondaland, and Marie Claire. Kristen lives in Ojai, CA with her husband, two children, and a dog named Peter.
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Jamie Lou
Director of Editorial + Production
Jamie Lou (she/her) is an award-winning essayist, content/copywriter, blogger, ghostwriter, book and film editor, and award-winning filmmaker/screenwriter and playwright. She is the recipient of the Kornbluth Memorial Writing Award for her essay on a Sylvia Plath poem. In 2021, her dramatic feature screenplay, Lady Lazarus, placed at the prestigious Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. As an author, her children’s books have reached children across the globe.
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Lauren Schwarzfeld
Director of Publicity + Marketing
Lauren is the best-selling author of Unboxed: Essays on Learning to Trust Myself So I Could Stop Doing the Things I Hate. Lauren has spent the past 25 years working in sales, fundraising, and marketing through various industries, realizing that the most powerful part of a storied work history is the wide variety of human connection. She is endlessly curious, a lover of books, travel, and new adventures. Lauren lives in Mt. Kisco, NY with her husband, three children and two dogs.
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Raya Whittington
Publishing Associate
Raya is a 23-year-old publishing associate with an unwavering love for literature and the written word. Outside of her professional pursuits, Raya enjoys indulging in music production, exploring new bookstores, and penning her own stories. She believes in the power of literature to foster community, provoke thought, and provide much-needed escapism. She aspires to continue contributing to the literary world for years to come.
Rise Writers is a place, a space, a community for people who believe in radical inspiration. We are a creative home for people who have struggled to find a voice in commercial and popular literature but who still believe in the power of truth telling and community.
Through our monthly writers group, group coaching options, and literary blog, Rise Writers is here to help you find and share your strongest story. Because there are many paths to publishing. Rise Writers will help guide you along your writing journey.