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24/04/2024

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16/02/2024

It’s a free download day for !! Get 4 Days in Paris free today and tomorrow (2/15 & 2/16)

Can you fall in love in four days?

Paris. New Year’s Eve, 1999.

Six months ago, Callie arrived in Paris to be with the love of her life, who promptly dumped her. Determined to succeed despite this drastic change of plans, Callie creates a life for herself in Paris, supported by her two closest friends, Lila and Emilie.

Now it’s the turn of the century and she’s returning to the U.S. in four days, ready to start the new century and the next chapter of her life… until she meets Emilie’s brother Julien on New Year’s Eve.

Sparks fly, and what Callie thought was just a fun fling with her best friend’s brother quickly turns into something more. But does Julien feel the same way? And what will this do to her friendship with Emilie?

Her time in Paris could offer a second chance for true love, or just another shattered heart.

If you love light-hearted stories of friendship, love, self-discovery and adventures in Paris pick up your copy today!

25/10/2023

Have you entered our giveaway to receive this bundle of books?

Use the link in the image or click the link in our bio to be entered to win!

17/10/2023

🌸 October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month 🌸

We're dedicated to supporting those who have experienced the profound pain of pregnancy and infant loss. This month, we're sharing affirmations to honor the strength, resilience, and love that surrounds this journey.

💕 Affirmations provide comfort and healing during these challenging times. By sharing them, we aim to:

1️⃣ Break the silence and stigma around pregnancy loss.
2️⃣ Offer support to those who need it.
3️⃣ Let grieving parents know they are not alone.

Join us in spreading hope and understanding. Share these affirmations to create a compassionate community, and remember that together, we can help heal hearts. 💙

15/10/2023

The Sisterhood of Healing Hearts: Permission to Thrive Journal is for any grieving mother who is ready to work toward healing, created in love by a mama who has walked in your shoes.

Healing after losing a child feels like an impossible task. When the world is spinning around us, it's challenging to find quiet time for ourselves.

The activities in this journal guide you through daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly healing activities in the most gentle way possible. Take them at your own pace.

Included in the Journal:
- Breath-work exercises to promote calming of the nervous system
- Gratitude prompts
- Beautiful affirmations
- Pages for writing or doodling and suggestions for journaling
- Self-care ideas bank

Features:
- Size: Easy to store and very portable: 6x9 trim size
- Wire bound
- 254 Full color pages
- Tabs to make finding your place easier

Your timeline is your own. This journal is designed with compassion and love, with no intent of adding stress to your life. So if it takes you a week to do one exercise, that's okay.

13/10/2023

Twenty-four, fresh out of college, and beginning a career in finance, the moment Leah Mele-Bazaz learned she was pregnant, she thought, I want this baby. Her boyfriend, Gautam, felt the same, and for the next six months, they were ready to move heaven and earth to welcome their daughter into the world.

Then the unthinkable happened. At twenty-six weeks gestation they got the worst news that confirmed her biggest fear: their daughter, Laila, had no detectable heartbeat. The news shattered her, upending her newlywed bliss and sending her into a downward spiral of depression from which she felt she would never recover. But amid this despair, Leah would find lights to guide her out of the darkness: Gautam’s support, a dog from the shelter, her passion for running, and, above all, an unwavering love for Laila.

In this heart-wrenching memoir, Leah Mele-Bazaz shares her experience with the devastation of stillbirth. Her inspiring journey from loss and anguish to newfound hope and healing shows there's a way to live when our children are no longer with us.

Get your copy now and help us celebrate one year since the publication of this heart-felt book.

13/10/2023

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month 🌸

We’re dedicated to supporting those who have experienced the profound pain of pregnancy and infant loss. This month, we’re sharing affirmations to honor the strength, resilience, and love that surrounds this journey.

💕 Affirmations provide comfort and healing during these challenging times. By sharing them, we aim to:

1️⃣ Break the silence and stigma around pregnancy loss.
2️⃣ Offer support to those who need it.
3️⃣ Let grieving parents know they are not alone.

Join us in spreading hope and understanding. Share these affirmations to create a compassionate community, and remember that together, we can help heal hearts. 💙

12/10/2023

This weekend we will be revealing the cover for our newest book launching in December…The Sisterhood of Healing Hearts: A Six-Month Guided Journal

This book is for any grieving mother who is ready to start working toward healing.

The journal begins very gently with easy activities and reminders to do throughout the week and grows with you as you heal. The journal includes writing prompts, breath work, and exercises that you can do to help you work each week on moving past the horrendous grief of losing your pregnancy, infant, or child. We have weekly exercises, monthly checkins, and some quarterly reviews. This is a gentle journal, designed to help you through the grief without adding more stress to your life.

Based on the input of multiple grieving mothers, this is a journal created in love from mamas who have walked in your shoes.

06/10/2023

Have you recently suffered a miscarriage, delivered a baby stillborn, lost an infant, or an older child? This book is the comfort and encouragement that you need to get you through the darkest of days. Mothers who have actually experienced these horrible events share their best tips and encouragement and resources to help mothers who are trying to pick themselves up after the death of a child, loss of an infant, or miscarriage. You will hear directly from them - how they survived, what helped, what didn't help, the dumb things people said, how they grieved with their other children, and more.

This book will be the virtual hug you need from other mothers who know your pain and understand that it's not something you can just move on, or "get over" in a few weeks, months, and sometimes years.

This book came about when Alexa Bigwarfe wanted to help her friend who delivered her beautiful daughter stillborn. She knew from her own pain that life could be beautiful again, but how can you give a mother that hope who is in the darkest time of her life? In May of 2011, Alexa and Jeff Bigwarfe were surprised to learn they were pregnant with identical twins. By the time the shock wore off from that news, they learned the babies were suffering from a fatal disease. Over the course of 10 weeks, Alexa was hospitalized numerous times. Once the babies were born (9.5 weeks early), baby Kathryn lived 2 days before passing away in the NICU.

Fast forward 18 months. The surviving twin was doing well. A happy, well-adjusted 18-month-old. Alexa learned her friend delivered her baby Catherine at 37 weeks, stillborn. This event set Alexa in motion to put together this beautiful book of hope, love, and support for other parents suffering pregnancy and infant loss, or even the death of an older child. She contacted other writers known in the grief and loss community, and invited them to participate.

The book includes all of their stories of loss, love, pain, grieving, support, forgiveness, and survival.

If you or someone you know has experienced the loss of a pregnancy, infant, or young child, you need this book to help heal.

03/10/2023

This month, we will be sharing resources and more in honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Month.

10 years ago Sunshine After the Storm, ’s debut book released, launching Kat Biggie Press.

Kat - short for Kathryn - Biggie Press is Alexa’s way of honoring her daughter who died from Twin to Twin transfusion at 2 days old. Over the years we’ve published many books on grief, loss and healing. If you are a parent who has experienced pregnancy or infant loss, we want you to remember your story matters.

06/06/2023

Happy Launch Day !

We are celebrating with a book giveaway 📚

Life has its hard knocks but after aging out of the foster system Kayla and Brooke are finding adulting brutal. Kayla has a hard time keeping steady employment. Being an empath who can pick up on evil intentions makes you a bit confrontational. When Kayla and Brooke stumble through a God Portal to another planet, they must survive together as they battle a vampire who’s caused catastrophic devastation to the planet. In this paranormal romance, the two earth females have a fate to face on a doomed planet while dealing with the unruly antics of the Gods.

Will Kayla’s protective spirit and Brooke’s faith be enough to save not only themselves but the people of Harmony’s world or will they be destroyed alongside them?

How to enter:
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Giveaway will run until 11:59 pm PDT on Friday (6/9/23)
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11/10/2022

October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. It’s also the 9 year anniversary of the publication of Sunshine After the Storm: A Survival Guide for the Grieving Mother. The book I wrote, with 30 other parents, that not only launched Kat Biggie Press, but was the beginning of my true healing after Kathryn died.
Therefore, it’s only fitting that today, just a few days shy of that anniversary and special Remembrance Day, I am so pleased to usher in another beautiful book for Grieving Mothers. Laila: Held for a Moment, by is available today. A beautiful memoir of Leah’s journey and sad loss of her baby, Laila. I am so proud to publish this book.
Congratulations Leah, and thank you for what you’re doing to support grieving mothers. ❤️

22/02/2022

It's LAUNCH DAY! And what a great day to launch! Happy 2-22-22!

Congratulations to Sharissa Bradley on the 2nd edition of her book!

2018 Foreword INDIE Bronze Winner, Health Category
Healing Your Body from the Inside Out

After years of taking antibiotics, Sharissa Bradley’s body fell apart. Finally diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and Celiac in 2015 and determined to heal her body, from the inside out, the author took the radical and extreme step of cleaning out her entire kitchen to start over from scratch.

Sharissa found her way back to health. This book will illuminate your way back to health, too, sustainably and meaningfully.

Journey Back to Health, 2nd ed, is the culmination of ten years of research in a clinical and professional setting, inspired by Sharissa's own health crisis and journey to healing. She took control of her health by revamping her nutrition and committing to herself, in a way that no medical professional ever could.

Through this book you will gain:

Hope for healing.
Understanding that YOU are completely in control of your own health.
The knowledge that small, sustainable steps can be taken daily toward your health. .
Clarity and guidance to help you take back control of your own life.
6 simple steps to help you gain the confidence you need to KEEP GOING and keep fighting your fight.
Tools, action steps, and guidance to help direct any person at any point on their journey to a higher level of health wellness and well-being.
A workbook so that you can implement and incorporate these steps into your daily life.

Grab your copy now!

https://amzn.to/3p9m8dA

Journey Back to Health: Exploring alternative tools for healing the body

19/11/2021

Congratulations to Author Laura Formentini for her starred review from Kirkus!

“The author’s power to move readers is exemplified by the closing of “Camel and Spider” in which Camel says, “You’re in the moon. You’re in every grain of sand. I can’t see anything without seeing you, Spider.” Cooper’s full-color illustrations add to the book’s unusual melding of genres. The end result is a tenderly philosophical study that offers hope and solace."

This is a very exciting day for me and for Kat Biggie Press and for Laura!

A beautiful book that we are publishing in January, Twentyone Olive Trees, an incredible compilation of fables, poems, and gorgeous illustrations to help inspire and transform pain after traumatic loss into healing, received a starred review on Kirkus.

I know for many of you, this means nothing. But a starred review for an author is a big freaking deal.

We're so proud of Laura Formentini for creating this amazing book, out of her sorrow, to help so many others heal.

Check out the review page: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-formentini/twentyone-olive-trees/T

11/11/2021

Honoring and celebrating all of our Veterans today!
At 5:00am on this day, in the year 1918, Allied leaders signed a treaty, ending World War 1. The first of the great world wars. In Europe, November 11th is Armistice Day. In the US, it's Veterans Day. In my forthcoming novel, 4 Days in Paris, I tell a story about a really special encounter I had with two World War 1 and World War 2 Veterans at the Arc de Triomphe, and a special ceremony I was so lucky to attend in Paris on November 11, 1999.

I always like to take the time to send a special newsletter to my community on this day because not only do I come from a long line of veterans, I am a veteran myself. My service is not just something on my resume that I’m proud of. It’s present in my everyday because it changed me. It’s one of the things that most defines me as a business owner, a coach, a writer and even as a parent. My family has sacrificed tremendously over the years because of our service, and it's something that is just in my bones, in my soul.

I joined the Air Force in April 2001, in a time when many of us were naive enough to believe that wars were done. I thought I was joining a Peace force. And then September 11th and happened and my whole world turned upside down. The next seven years of my life were filled with deployments to the Middle East, support to two wars, and a lot of unexpected journeys.

I am proud of a lot of things, but I am the proudest of having served my country. And one thing I absolutely love is swapping stories with other veterans. I particularly enjoy just listening to those who came before me.

On that topic, I’d like to take a moment to remember my great uncle, Edward Kennedy, who passed away last week. He served in the Navy during World War 2, one of the few remaining WW2 Veterans... the generation that is all quickly leaving us. Soon, all we’ll have of that generation is the books written about them and the movies.
I wish I’d asked him more about his time in the Navy when I had the chance.
The stories of Veterans need to be told. Because they are so incredibly interesting, but also, sharing stories helps us remember the things that have happened in our past, so that hopefully we won’t repeat history. I loved working with my client, Gerri Hilger, on her book Our Duty. She did extensive research to tell a fictionalized version of her family’s story. I found it particularly moving and important because it centered the experiences of women, who are often marginalized when we talk about service, war and the impact it had on their lives.

After receiving a lot of feedback about her original cover - people felt the old cover made it seem like it was a war heavy story, but in reality, it's a tale of friendship during the war - we decided to redesign her cover. Here’s the new gorgeous cover. The picture is of the character in the book, Aggie, who is a very real women behind the story. In fact, Aggie celebrated her 100th birthday this year! If you want to honor her, consider grabbing this book to read her story!​ https://amzn.to/30fp67o
Thanks to Gerri for sharing this wonderful, feel-good story of women during war time, and thanks to all those who have served our country for sharing your stories, too, whether it’s in a book or with loved ones. It’s so important for new generations to appreciate your sacrifices.
So on this Veterans day, I want to say THANK YOU to anyone on our mailing list who served or has a family member or loved one who served. May we never forget the sacrifices our military members make.
Do you have a favorite book by a veteran you’d like to share? I’d love to hear about it!

https://amzn.to/30fp67o

15/10/2021

It all started 8 years ago today with the publication of this book on - Preegnancy and infant loss awareness day. Remembering Kathryn and all babies gone too soon.

Happy 8th birthday Kat Biggie Press.

28/06/2021

Congratulations to our Chrysalis Press (an imprint of Kat Biggie Press) author Kasie Whitener, who was announced the winner of the Fresh Voices award by the South Carolina humanities!
https://schumanities.org/annualevents/govawards/

South Carolina Humanities annually presents the Governor's Awards in the Humanities Luncheon & Award Ceremony to recognize outstanding achievement and