Wrestling with a Rebel
When Your Son Flips Your World Upside Down
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Wrestling with a Rebel, The Armored Heart, and Finding Father are available now. Choose a book below to purchase on Amazon.
The Armored Heart
How a Green Beret Learned to Lead with Love—and a Shoelace
Finding Father
A Magical Quest of Faith, Hope, and Autism
A memoir press built by a memoirist
We are small but we are serious.
“I know what it takes to find the heart of a true story — and to help it earn a reader.”
For more than two decades I’ve written memoir — twenty books, editions in more than fifteen languages, one of them now a documentary, and one a feature film. I’ve watched true stories climb bestseller lists and change the people who read them. And I’ve watched the industry tell writer after writer that their story is too small, too quiet, too unsellable.
I named the press after the Pacific Crest, the kind of place where people live close to the bone and every single person has a story worth keeping. That is who we publish for: the memoirist, the first-time author, the voice that doesn’t fit a category. Small house, fierce intentions, and a belief that the underdog story is the one worth betting on.
Memoirs are a form of alchemy.
Memoir done right doesn’t just get published. It gets read.
Learn what Shake Ridge Press publishes, how we approach story development, and when future submission windows will be announced.