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Gold Award in the Regional Fiction (Europe) category of the 2020 IPPY Awards
Gold Medal in the Fiction-Literary category of the 2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards
Silver Award in the Audiobook: Fiction category of the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards
"Teitelman paints an intensely beautiful world in which different cultures merge in surprising ways. . . . A rich and moving story about an unlikely pair." -Kirkus Reviews
In 1923, seventeen-year-old Esther Grunspan arrives in Koeln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage." Thus begins a twenty-two-year journey, woven against the backdrops of the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the "Age of Darkness" when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India.
Esther's traveling companion and the novel's narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God worshipped by millions for his abilities to destroy obstacles, bestow wishes, and avenge evils. Impressed by Esther's fortitude and relentless determination, born of her deep-though unconscious-understanding of the meaning and purpose of love, Ganesha, with compassion, insight, and poetry, chooses to highlight her story because he recognizes it is all of our stories-for truth resides at the essence of its telling.
Weaving Eastern beliefs and perspectives with Western realities and pragmatism, Guesthouse for Ganesha is a tale of love, loss, and spirit reclaimed.
* Online media pitching to various media outlets from consumer media to women's media, publishing trade media and book reviews as well as essays, interviews placed * Pitching to author's select local media outlets (short lead media in local area/print, online - in all local markets where the author lived) * National traditional media, including major newspapers, major magazines (print and online) as well as radio, TV, and more (All media formats, coverage includes reviews, interviews, essays placed and major media for several months) * A bigger content strategy to help place the author as an expert and get articles, excerpts and more published around themes of the book and relevant news * Additional Marketing (eNewsletter strategy, list building) * Strategic pitching to even broader national broadcast media (radio and TV) * Platform launching and building * Guidance/consult for author's social media and platform building with monthly metrics and goals (social ads/boosting is extra) * Author website redesign (web team fees are extra but our time project managing is included) * BookSparks will organize a book tour * BookSparks will coordinate additional speaking opportunities
About the Author
Judith Teitelman has straddled the worlds of arts, literature, and business since she was a teenager and worked her first job as a salesperson at a B. Dalton/Pickwick Bookstore. Life's journeys took her from bookstores to commercial fine art galleries to the nonprofit arts and cultural sector, in which she has worked as staff, consultant, and educator for more than three decades. Throughout this time, Teitelman continued her pursuit of all things literary. Guesthouse for Ganesha is her debut novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three beloved cats.
Book Information
ISBN 9781631525216
Author Judith Teitelman
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint She Writes Press
Publisher She Writes Press
Gold Medal in the Fiction-Literary category of the 2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards
Silver Award in the Audiobook: Fiction category of the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards
"Teitelman paints an intensely beautiful world in which different cultures merge in surprising ways. . . . A rich and moving story about an unlikely pair." -Kirkus Reviews
In 1923, seventeen-year-old Esther Grunspan arrives in Koeln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage." Thus begins a twenty-two-year journey, woven against the backdrops of the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the "Age of Darkness" when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India.
Esther's traveling companion and the novel's narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God worshipped by millions for his abilities to destroy obstacles, bestow wishes, and avenge evils. Impressed by Esther's fortitude and relentless determination, born of her deep-though unconscious-understanding of the meaning and purpose of love, Ganesha, with compassion, insight, and poetry, chooses to highlight her story because he recognizes it is all of our stories-for truth resides at the essence of its telling.
Weaving Eastern beliefs and perspectives with Western realities and pragmatism, Guesthouse for Ganesha is a tale of love, loss, and spirit reclaimed.
* Online media pitching to various media outlets from consumer media to women's media, publishing trade media and book reviews as well as essays, interviews placed * Pitching to author's select local media outlets (short lead media in local area/print, online - in all local markets where the author lived) * National traditional media, including major newspapers, major magazines (print and online) as well as radio, TV, and more (All media formats, coverage includes reviews, interviews, essays placed and major media for several months) * A bigger content strategy to help place the author as an expert and get articles, excerpts and more published around themes of the book and relevant news * Additional Marketing (eNewsletter strategy, list building) * Strategic pitching to even broader national broadcast media (radio and TV) * Platform launching and building * Guidance/consult for author's social media and platform building with monthly metrics and goals (social ads/boosting is extra) * Author website redesign (web team fees are extra but our time project managing is included) * BookSparks will organize a book tour * BookSparks will coordinate additional speaking opportunities
About the Author
Judith Teitelman has straddled the worlds of arts, literature, and business since she was a teenager and worked her first job as a salesperson at a B. Dalton/Pickwick Bookstore. Life's journeys took her from bookstores to commercial fine art galleries to the nonprofit arts and cultural sector, in which she has worked as staff, consultant, and educator for more than three decades. Throughout this time, Teitelman continued her pursuit of all things literary. Guesthouse for Ganesha is her debut novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three beloved cats.
Book Information
ISBN 9781631525216
Author Judith Teitelman
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint She Writes Press
Publisher She Writes Press
