Kensington Publishing and Souls of My Sisters, Inc. Partner to Bring Inspirational and Empowering Books to the African American Community Through Their New Imprint, Souls of My Sisters Books

NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Steven Zacharius, Chief Executive Officer and President of Kensington Publishing Corp. announced today a joint publishing agreement between Kensington Publishing Corp. and Souls of My Sisters, Inc., which takes its name from the highly successful Essence Bestseller SOULS OF MY SISTERS: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories, and Heal Their Spirits, written and edited by Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy. That book was among the launch titles for Kensington's Dafina Books imprint in 2000 and is now in its 15th printing.

The book is an intimate look at the contributors' personal stories with women ranging from a former Blood gang member to celebrities such as Mary J. Bilge. Daniels, formerly an editor at Simon & Schuster, and Sandy, communications director for Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, D-NY also contributed to the book.

Zacharius calls the Souls of My Sisters Books launch "part of our continuing commitment to readers who have helped us to grow and be responsive within our publishing program, especially our Dafina Books imprint."

Souls of My Sisters Books, the imprint launched this month with an update of SOULS OF MY SISTERS and the new SOULS REVEALED: A SOULS OF MY SISTERS BOOK OF REVELATIONS AND TOOLS FOR HEALING YOUR LIFE, SOUL AND SPIRIT with a foreword by Star Jones. Other projects include It Happened In Church: Stories of Humor from the Pulpit to the Pews written by Patti S. Webster

Souls of My Sisters Books will publish a minimum of four titles per year. Kensington will distribute the books, building upon its base as the country's leading distributor of African American titles.

ABOUT KENSINGTON PUBLISHING:

Kensington Publishing Corp., located in New York, has had many recent New York Times bestsellers. They include Fern Michaels, Jacquelyn Frank, Tucker Max, Lisa Jackson, Carl Weber, Mary B. Morrison and Mary Monroe.

Established in 1974, Kensington is the foremost independent publishing house in the United States to publish in hardcover, trade paperback and mass market with imprints, including Kensington Books, Citadel Press, Dafina Books, Zebra Books, Pinnacle Books, Brava, Aphrodisia and Lyle Stuart.

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