PUblishing Radical Works of Inspiration
With distribution from Simon & Schuster, we are committed to supporting emerging authors, not based on the size of their following but on the quality of their stories.
We believe that books are powerful enough to build a platform, creating conversation and community. Through our stories, we heal ourselves, but also, we free each other.
Each season of Rise Books is like its own constellation, 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 five 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.
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 middled age life is upturned 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 | 9.12.2023
What we’ve forgotten
By Amy Miranda
Shining new light on the old ways, What We’ve Forgotten reminds us of the adventure, rites, and ritual of journey work. Wonder witch and oracle Amy Miranda invites readers into a temple of remembering, taking them through the science, history, and cosmos of consciousness to reconnect us all into the deep wonder of life.
RELEASE DATE | 12.12.2023
The Three 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. But 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 | 3.12.2024
FUCKBOYS 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 | 6.11.2024
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 | 9.10.2024
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 | 12.10.2024
We are transforming the book publishing industry with stories from all over the world that heal, illuminate, and emancipate the spirit.
2023-2024 Season
2023-2024 Season
Rise Books
CATALOG
COMING SOON
Rise Books is releasing six to ten books a year in the genres of cultural disruption, mysticism, ethical dating, radical birthing, collective liberation, political fiction, literary memoir, motherhood, recovery, and other works that explore what it means to be radically inspired.
Publisher
Kristen McGuiness
After years of working with authors who struggled to find a home with traditional publishers - and could not afford to self-publish - founder Kristen McGuiness recognized she wanted to create a space that was equitable and supportive of authors whose stories deserved to be told, even if traditional publishing wasn’t ready, or willing, to help tell them. Rise Books is a booty glitter publisher, er… boutique literary publisher, which curates the best of the Rise Writers community, publishing 6 to 10 books a year in the genres of cultural disruption, mysticism, ethical business, radical birthing, collective liberation, political fiction, literary memoir, motherhood, recovery, and other works that explore what it means to be radically inspired.
SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN TO THE RISE COMMUNITY STARTING IN SEPTEMBER 2023.
Ascend publishing
For select clients, Rise Writers will help you to write, publish, and market your full-length book through our hybrid imprint, Ascend Publishing. We are not your usual hybrid press as Ascend is distributed by Simon & Schuster, offering authors national (and international) distribution of their titles, along with professional production, editorial, design, and publicity and marketing services. We are here to give your book the integrity and strong positioning it deserves, rewarding your premium investment as an author.
Publishing packages start between $30,000-$100,000.