Books published by Ingenium Books

An enchanting bedtime story for young children with a strong moral-of-the-story-crafted by a seven-year-old girl with a bright future in storytelling.A butterfly with a secret. A mean, jealous girl. A kidnapping. And the courageous kindness that turned enemies into friends.This bedtime story will entertain your kids and fill their heads with sweet dreams, and it will also help inspire them to practice the art of courageous kindness toward others.

Testing expectations of motherhood and faith, this haunting and breathtakingly-honest depiction of the transformation of a family through the mystery of gender questioning and identity is a dual story of awakening: of the heart of a mother towards her transgendered child, and of the child's awakening to his, her, their fluidity of gender. FOR YEARS, HER SON KEPT A SECRET. A BIG SECRET. The bombshell, delivered shortly after he left for college, left author C.A. Gibbs questioning everything. What was real? Was she being a good parent? Through fear, anxiety, faith, loss, and grief, Gibbs shares the remarkable experiences triggered by the discovery that her adult child isn't-and maybe hasn't ever been-the person she thought. In The Picture Wall: One Woman's Story of Being His Her Their Mother, Gibbs lifts the curtain on life with a child who lives outside societal norms and expectations. From her earliest desire of wanting nothing more than to be a mother, to facing her own life-and-death medical diagnosis before it was safe to get pregnant, to the self-doubt and push-back from others when she expressed concern over her toddler's development, Gibbs finally comes to terms with the fact that the picture-perfect life displayed in her scrapbooks and on her family picture wall wasn't reality. At least it wasn't the full picture. The Picture Wall: One Woman's Story of Being His Her Their Mother takes us on an intimate and emotional journey toward healing as Gibbs comes to terms with raising an autistic child, parenting a transgender adult child, telling family a child is transgender, letting go as children grow up to live authentic lives on their own terms, and embracing being empty nesters.

In Four Fridays with Christina: Friendship, Death, and Lessons Learned by Letting Go, author Cynthia Barlow explores the nature of life, love, loss, and letting go, inspired by the passing of a dear friend taken by cancer. Barlow travels from her home in Toronto, Canada to Boca de Tomatlan, Mexico, where she spent five winters, and spends four weeks cooking bacon, directing and limiting visitor traffic, giving Christina an anchor to real life as she prepares to leave it. As much as Barlow gives to her adopted big sister, Christina gives back in spades as the author finds a new window and different light shining right into her own soul.Four Fridays with Christina is full of gripping moments, laugh-out-loud reflections, and sassy insights as Barlow chronicles her friend's precious final days and her own perceptions on finding purpose within pain. Bold and insightful, tender and lighthearted, Four Fridays with Christina will take you through the small delights and big decisions, the painful boundaries and celebratory bowel movements, the massive closet clean-out and the final goodbyes on the road to peace.An uplifting story that honors the four Fridays Cynthia spent with her friend and all the profound moments in between, Four Fridays with Christina will leave you feeling more invigorated about life itself-and more grateful for it.

Those who want to write a book believe writing it is hard. Those who have written a book discover that marketing the book is harder.One Million Readers is for traditional or self-published authors of nonfiction who want to feel more confident about marketing their books, but don't know where to start. It's for those who want to gain power and control over their book sales and achieve real results.Learn why creating your book marketing strategy is the most important thing you can do for your author career and your business, and how to create your own. Boni Wagner-Stafford walks you through everything you need to market your book, starting with creating the right book for the right audience.In section one of the book, Getting Started, you'll explore your objectives, target audience, your unique selling proposition, how to scan your market for competition and broader environmental factors, setting a budget, and placement and pricing strategies.Section two, Messages and Methods, is a guided tour through decisions you need to make around your web presence, social media, public relations, reader reviews, email marketing, promotional products, handling a book launch, your book signing kit, and advertising.Section three is about Taking Action. Here's where you'll learn how to create your tactical timeline, pull together contact lists, how to set baseline measurement and track metrics. It's also where you'll learn how to craft your book overview and strategy brief, and then pull it all together into a polished, professional marketing strategy that will bolster your confidence, impress others, and ensure you never again wonder what you should do today to market your nonfiction book.One Million Readers is complete with real-life examples of book marketing strategies so you can see how the advice in the book translates and applies to your book.The only way to get a handle on which of the gazillion possible things to do, and what is right for you and your book, is to craft your own marketing strategy."In One Million Readers Boni Wagner-Stafford shows indie authors how to create and implement a real-world book marketing strategy, and how this approach can help you achieve your publishing goals and sell more books. Recommended." -Joel Friedlander, TheBookDesigner.comBoni Wagner-Stafford is author of One Million Readers: The Definitive Guide to a Nonfiction Book Marketing Strategy That Saves Time, Money, and Sells More Books, Rock Your Business: 26 Lessons to Start, Run, and Grow Your New Business From the Ground Up (co-author), and No More Author Envy: 9 Essential Steps to Writing Your First Book. She is co-founder of Ingenium Books, an assisted self-publishing company working exclusively with nonfiction indie authors. Her book marketing experience is built on a foundation of an award-winning career in journalism, government media relations and PR.Connect: @ingeniumbooks and @bclearwritingWww.ingeniumbooks.com