5 Books by Self-Published Women Authors
Writing a book alone takes guts and determination and earns you a place on our list of badass women. However, being your own publisher reaches another level of boss women. Add these books to your reading list to support women in literature!
Career Change by Joanna Penn
“This book will take you through understanding the way you feel now as well as how to improve your current situation immediately so you can create enough space to work on breaking out and doing what you truly love. It also contains the career change process I used to go from management consultant to full-time author-entrepreneur. It's time to change your career and your life.”-Joanna Penn
Joanna Penn began self-publishing her own fiction/non-fiction books in 2011 after working in the corporate world for several years. She spent 13 years as a business IT consultant all around the world before becoming a full-time author-entrepreneur. Now Joanna shares her corporate knowledge and writing tips through her books. .Joanna has published over 30 books, sold over 600,000 in 149 different countries and 6 different languages.
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
“Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life—and her relationship with her family and the world—forever. As she struggles to cope with Alzheimer’s, she learns that her worth is comprised of far more than her ability to remember.
At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease that is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as unforgettable as Ordinary People.”
Lisa Genova, graduated from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. Lisa takes inspiration from the neuroscience world and writes contemporary fiction landing her the title of a New York Time best selling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O’Briens, and Every Note Played. In 2014, the novel Still Alice was adapted into a movie directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland.
In 2016, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bates College, The Alzheimer's Association's Rita Hayworth Award, and The Huntington’s Disease Society of America Community Awareness Award.
My Blood Approves by Amanda Hocking
“Seventeen-year-old Alice Bonham's life feels out of control after she meets Jack. With his fondness for pink Chuck Taylors and New Wave hits aside, Jack's unlike anyone she's ever met.
Then she meets his brother, Peter. His eyes pierce through her, and she can barely breathe when he's around. Even though he can't stand the sight of her, she's drawn to him.But falling for two very different guys isn't even the worst of her problems.”
Amanda Hocking is an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction. She began self-publishing when she had written 17 novels and had no success signing with a commercial publisher. She decided to self-publish one of her books, My Blood Approves. Amanda began to see success in her novel and published three more. She’s now a New York Time best selling author and sells an average of 9,000 books a day!
Neanderthal Seeking Human: A Smart Romance by Penny Reid
“There are three things you need to know about Janie Morris:
1) She is incapable of engaging in a conversation without volunteering TMTI (Too Much Trivial Information), especially when she is unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her more than Quinn Sullivan, and 3) She doesn't know how to knit.
After losing her boyfriend, apartment, and job in the same day, Janie Morris can't help wondering what new torment fate has in store.
To her utter mortification, Quinn Sullivan—aka Sir McHotpants—witnesses it all then keeps turning up like a pair of shoes you lust after but can't afford. The last thing she expects is for Quinn to make her an offer she can't refuse.”
Before Penny Reid started her journey in the literature world she used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher. Penny too, turned to self-publishing when her novel Neanderthal Seeks Human, was rejected by agents and publishers. Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series.
Hardwired by Meredith Wild
“Determined to overcome a difficult past, Erica Hathaway learns early on how to make it on her own. Days after her college graduation she finds herself face to face with a panel of investors who will make or break her fledgling startup. The only thing she didn't prepare for was going weak in the knees over an arrogant and gorgeous investor who's seemingly determined to derail her presentation.
Billionaire and rumored hacker Blake Landon has already made his fortune in software, and he's used to getting what he wants with very little resistance. Captivated by Erica's drive and unassuming beauty, he's wanted nothing more since she stepped into his boardroom. Determined to win her over, he breaks down her defenses and fights for her trust, even if that means sacrificing a level of control he's grown accustomed to.
But when Blake uncovers a dark secret from Erica's past, he threatens not just her trust, but the life she's fought so hard to create.”
Meredith Wild is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author. After publishing her debut novel Hardwired in September 2013, Wild used her ten years of experience as a tech entrepreneur to expand her market in book chain stores.
In 2014, Wild founded her own imprint, Waterhouse Press, under which she hit No. 1 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists.
