Legacy Book Press
Full traditional publisher of personal stories told via non-fiction, fictionalized, and/or poetic formats. Good writing deserves to be read.
Ghostwriting and mentoring/coaching also available to help you write your story. There is a phenomenon that occurs when a collection comes together—whether it be the assemblage of works from one individual or many. We find that the best titles to these collections emerge from within them and are found only after assembly has begun. As the work moves on to the designer who carries on the tradition
16/07/2024
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Check out our latest personal story release! Legacy Book Press LLC is proud to announce the release of its latest memoir, The Record Keeper by Allison Lawrentz Barnhart.
13/07/2024
Coming soon! 'Between Two Poles' by Christine Dela Rosa will be released August 13, 2024. For more info, visit the LBP website:
Between Two Poles – Legacy Book Press LLC Coming Soon! Between Two Poles reflects on Christine P. Dela Rosa’s experience cycling from reluctant classmate, to roommate, to best friend, to caretaker with Lien Le. At first, the two are an inseparable pair, growing because of each other, until Lien’s first episodes of bipolar disorder hit, ...
The Midwest Book Review made a post about 'The War on Sarah Morris' by Kathleen Jones. Check it out here:
MBR: Small Press Bookwatch, July 2024 James A. Cox Editor-in-Chief Midwest Book Review 278 Orchard Drive Oregon, WI 53575-1129 phone: 1-608-835-7937 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.midwestbookreview.com
10/07/2024
Check out this interview with LBP author Kathleen Jones on Reading Nook:
Author Interview: ‘The War on Sarah Morris’ by Kathleen Jones About the Book: What happens when one day, without any warning whatsoever, your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? And all of your professional duties get taken away, leaving you wit…
05/07/2024
Only two more days to enter the giveaway on GoodReads for 'Craving Spring' by Ann Batchelder. Click here to enter:
Book giveaway for Craving Spring: A Mother’s Quest, a Daughter’s Depression, and the Greek Myth That Brought Them Together by Ann Batchelder Jun 09-Jul 07, 2024 Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jun 09-Jul 07, 2024. Giving away 10 signed copies. Engrossing and enlightening story ab...
21/06/2024
Allen Long guests on This is 56 Podcast to talk about his book, 'Praying for Restraint.' Watch it now here:
Hospital Care Today - Let's Write a Better Story Retired inner-city CNA, Allen Long shares his inspirational story about how he leveraged his vast medical experience and passion into a creative career as a ...
20/06/2024
GoodReads is doing a giveaway for 'Craving Spring' by Ann Batchelder. Enter now for a chance to win! The giveaway ends on July 7, so don't miss out!
Book giveaway for Craving Spring: A Mother’s Quest, a Daughter’s Depression, and the Greek Myth That Brought Them Together by Ann Batchelder Jun 09-Jul 07, 2024 Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jun 09-Jul 07, 2024. Giving away 10 signed copies. Engrossing and enlightening story ab...
12/06/2024
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Check out our latest personal story release! The year is 1962 and young Weldon Thatcher, caught between two worlds (boyhood and manhood, cartoons and raging hormones) is coerced by his mother and the local preacher into attending Edenfield College, a Protestant icon and a place straightaway paranoid about influences from the outside world. Tho...
10/06/2024
New LBP author Doug Bradley shared a post on the blog, 'Letters to You.' Read it here:
LTY Exclusive: Doug Bradley, Vietnam War veteran, author, and scholar, on BORN IN THE U.S.A. @40 June 4, 2024I just re-listened to Born in the U.S.A., released forty years ago today back in 1984. Yeah, that year, the one we all grew up worrying about since all of us had read George Orwell’s alarming novel, 1984. Afraid that the omnipresent Big Brother would make an appearance, and our lives w...
07/06/2024
Check out this podcast with host Lisa Cooper Ellison and guest LBP author Ann Batchelder:
Addiction, Recovery, and Confronting the Good Mother Myth - Lisa Cooper Ellison Author Ann Batchelder talks about her daughter’s struggle with addiction, their recovery journeys, and how she confronted the good mother myth.
06/06/2024
Coming soon! 'The Record Keeper' by Allison Lawrentz Barnhart. Check out the cover reveal! For more info, visit here: https://buff.ly/3X7siwN
03/06/2024
'The War on Sarah Morris' by Kathleen Jones was featured in an online review. Check it out here:
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31/05/2024
29/05/2024
LBP author Judy Kowalsky joins the podcast 'The Pe*****le Huntress' with Jodie Tedder. Watch now here:
The Pe*****le Huntress | Discussion with Judy Kowalsky Judy Kowalsky joins me for a discussion about her new book "The Art of Britstle." Her book is full of honesty and acceptance of being an adult child of an al...
20/05/2024
Frederick Livingston is the featured reader for the Humble Poets' Open Mic. For more info, visit here:
The Humble Poets' Open Mic — The Stacks Coffeehouse The Humble Poets' Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm. The featured reader for May is Frederick Livingston. We are encouraging poets and storytellers to come share their works, and musical accompaniments are welcome as well. The address is 1831
Hang out with Frederick Livingston while he talks about his book 'Trees are Bridges to the Sky.' For more info about the Author Talk, click here:
17/05/2024
Join Ann Batchelder in this interview on The Rumpus about her book 'Craving Spring':
Mother-Daughter Bonds and the Power of Greek Myth: A Conversation with Ann Batchelder - The Rumpus My hope is that as a society we can emphasize compassion over stigma and treatment over punishment.
16/05/2024
Check out this essay written by Ann Batchelder on HuffPost:
Just Before My Mom Died, She Said 6 Words That Changed My Life — And Made Me A Better Mother "I hadn’t realized how much I’d longed to hear those words from my mother all my life."
15/05/2024
Check out this post on the book blog 'World of My Imagination' for 'The War on Sarah Morris' by Kathleen Jones:
Bullied at Work? This Is Your Story by Kathleen Jones : Nicole Pyles If you’ve been bullied at work, this is your story! My new novel, The War on Sarah Morris, is fiction. And it’s also non-fiction. It
13/05/2024
Ann Batchelder joins Ronit Plank on the podcast 'Let's Talk Memoir.' Check it out here:
Understanding How to Let Go featuring Ann Batchelder | Let’s Talk Memoir Ann Batchelder joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about using myth as a jumping point for interpreting ourselves, trusting intuition, the idea of mother failure, regret and letting go, addiction and recovery in loved ones, mental health stigma, deciding when to show loved ones the manuscri...
10/05/2024
Ann Batchelder joins the podcast 'Coffee, Grief, and Gratitude' with Anne Gudger. Check it out here:
Layers of Grief with Ann Batchelder Listen to this episode from Coffee, Grief, And Gratitude on Spotify. Ann reads three excerpts from her recently published memoir: Craving Spring: A Mother’s Quest, a Daughter’s Depression, and the Greek Myth that Brough Them Together. She talks about her grief around being the mom of a daughter ...
09/05/2024
Kathleen Jones' novel 'The War on Sarah Morris' has been featured on the blog 'Snowflakes in a Blizzard.' Check it out here:
Snowflakes in a Blizzard Separating authors from the herd and giving them one-on-one time with readers.
08/05/2024
Check out the podcast 'The Only One in the Room' with Laura Cathcart Robbins featuring LBP author Ann Batchelder:
Ann Batchelder is The Only One Who Used a Greek Myth To Heal Her Relationship with Her Daughter Listen to this episode from Only One In The Room on Spotify. Ann Batchelder is the author of Craving Spring: A mother’s quest, a daughter’s depression, and the Greek myth that brought them together. She served as Editor of Fiberarts Magazine and was a guest curator for the Asheville Art Museum. ...
07/05/2024
The cover for 'Edenfield' by George R. Justice is finally revealed, out June 11, 2024! For more info, visit the LBP website: https://buff.ly/4a8xJOP
06/05/2024
Hang out with LBP author Judy Kowalsky at the Bill Peach Franklin Book Festival from June 8-9 at the Williamson County Public Library. For more information, visit here: https://buff.ly/4bcUFxa
LBP is proud to be a part of the 28th Annual Poets House Showcase Exhibition with the books, reflections by Faith Foley; Swimming, Not Drowning by Mari-Carmen Marin; Holding Heaven by Elsa Mondou; and Efflorescence by Kelsey Villeret. If you’re in the New York City area and want to see the showcase, it runs until May 31st at Poets House, 10 River Terrace. Learn more about them at
23/04/2024
LPB congratulates author Mari-Carmen Marin on the publication of her new book, The Valley of Your Life: Ekphrastic Poems. https://buff.ly/3WudVT5
17/04/2024
Check out the audiobook of 'Goodbye Again' by Candice Cahill! Now on Audible: Goodbye Again by Candace Cahill - Audiobook -
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11/04/2024
Happy pub day to Kathleen Jones with the novel, 'The War on Sarah Morris.' Buy your copy here:
The War on Sarah Morris ONE DAY, YOU’RE A VALUED EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY … THE NEXT DAY, YOU’RE BEING PUSHED OUT THE DOOR. What happens when your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? Book editor Sarah Morris finds herself in this predicament when the company she has served for twenty-one years is reorgan...
11/04/2024
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Check out our latest personal story release! What happens when your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? Book editor Sarah Morris finds herself in this predicament when the company she has served for twenty-one years is reorganized. Sarah’s boss gives all the company’s book editing projects to freelancers and a pet employee, u...
Our Story
My passion for helping people say what they wanted to say began in 1989 when my not quite two-year-old cousin passed away when she was hit by a car while my aunt was pushing her in her stroller and I wrote a poem for the funeral that numerous people told me put into words what they were feeling but couldn't articulate.
This passion lay hidden for several years while I graduated from college, got married, and had kids. It was reignited around 2012 while self-reflecting in a leadership class for my MBA degree. At that time, I adopted my alter-ego of Wordsy Woman, helping people with editing and eventually publishing.
In late 2018, I got the idea to start a new press to help people publish their legacy stories, whether non-fiction or fiction. It seemed like a natural fit, so Legacy Book Press was born.
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