Missing: Zina Martin

Why is Zina Martin, 16, standing beside the highway two miles from the polygamous hamlet of Gabriel's Landing, Utah, with $13.84 in her pocket? Follow her journey as she leaves the only home she has ever known and becomes the woman she was destined to become. 

Gabriel's Daughters

a novel

by

Janet Kay Jensen

September 21, 2013

Jolly Fish Press

www.jollyfish.com

Good news from Foreword Indiefab Contest

JULY 12, 2016
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: JOLLY FISH  PRESS
publicity@jollyfishpress.com

GABRIEL’S DAUGHTERS has been named a Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Silver winner.

PROVO, UTAH—Today, JOLLY FISH PRESS is pleased to announce GABRIEL’S DAUGHTERS has been recognized as a Silver winner in the 18th annual Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards.

Narrowed down from nearly 2,000 entries by a panel of librarians and booksellers, along with Foreword Reviews’ editorial staff, the winners in 66 categories are considered the year’s best books published by independent publishers, university presses, and self-published authors. Foreword Reviews made the announcement in a live presentation at the American Library Association Annual Conference. A complete list of winners can be found at:

https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/winners/2015/

“Foreword’s INDIEFAB judges are the key to our winners selection process, and, in our minds, the most foolproof way to choose award-winning books,” said Victoria Sutherland, publisher of Foreword Reviews. “We work with a librarian and bookseller in each category to provide us with an insider’s perspective on what would do well on consumer and library shelves. Using industry professionals confirms the trade quality of a book.”

Jolly Fish Press hails GABRIEL’S DAUGHTERS as “an impressive work of literary fiction that accurately explores the struggles of being raised in a polygamous community. Jensen’s novel explores the unique strengths and weaknesses of the relationship in a polygamous family.”

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER: We are Jolly Fish press, a publishing house based in Provo, Utah, which publishes trade fiction and select non-fiction books in the national and international market. We excel in exceptional cover design, worldwide online and brick-and-mortar distribution, expansive publicity and marketing campaigns, subsidiary rights representation, and most of all, our drive and ability to find exceptional, yet undiscovered authors, jumpstarting their careers with maximum exposure, sales, mentoring, and higher than industry average royalty rates."

About Foreword: Foreword Magazine, Inc is a media company featuring a Folio:-award-winning quarterly print magazine, Foreword Reviews, and a website devoted to independently published books. In the magazine, they feature reviews of the best 170 new titles from independent publishers, university presses, and noteworthy self-published authors. Their website features daily updates: reviews along with in-depth coverage and analysis of independent publishing from a team of more than 100 reviewers, journalists, and bloggers. The print magazine is available at most Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million newsstands or by subscription. You can also connect with them on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest.

They are headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan, USA.

Foreword Magazine

An honor for Gabriel's Daughters

NEW MEXICO BOOK ASSOCIATION

Post Office Box 1285    Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504

 (505) 660-6357    Fax: (505) 983-0899    www.nmbook.org   admin@nmbook.org

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New Mexico Book Association is pleased to announce the

SWBDA 2015 AWARD WINNERS

Santa Fe—06-27-2015--Here are the winning recipients of the 2015 Southwest Book Design and Production Awards, announced and presented on June 17 at the NMBA Gala and Membership Meeting. This is the sixth year that these coveted recognitions have been awarded to the publishers and creators of a few outstanding books produced during the past several months. NMBA is a not-for-profit organization and is pleased to offer this award program for New Mexico’s authors and publishers as well as to those in surrounding states.  SWBDA Coordinator James Mafchir and NMBA President Paula Lozar made the presentations.

TRADE BOOK NON-ILLUSTRATED

WINNER

Mysterious New Mexico:

Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment

University of New Mexico Press

Benjamin Radford, author

FIRST FINALIST

Spiritual Law: The Essence of Swedenborg’s Divine Providence

Rock Point Press, publisher

Joanna V. Hill, author

TRADE BOOK ILLUSTRATED

WINNER

A Legacy in Arms:

American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 1800-1900

University of Oklahoma Press

Richard C. Rattenbury, author

FIRST FINALIST

Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth behind a World War II Fence

The University of Utah Press

Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, author

ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

WINNER

A  Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette

University of Oklahoma Press

Andy Wilkinson, author

FIRST FINALIST

The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West

University of New Mexico Press

Erv Schroeder, author

SCHOLARLY AND TECHNICAL

WINNER

Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries & New Research

University of New Mexico Press

Bruce B. Huckell and J. David Kilby, authors

FIRST FINALIST

New Mexican Folk Music / Cancionero del Folklor Nuevomexicano

University of New Mexico Press

Cipriano Frederico Vigil, author

GUIDES AND TRAVEL BOOKS

WINNER

Medicine from the Kitchen

Author House, LLC, Publisher

Jessie Emerson, RN, author

FIRST FINALIST

Saddle Up: A Cowboy Guide to Writing

Rio Grande Books, Publisher

Slim Randles, author

GIFT BOOKS

WINNER

Chasing Dichos through Chimayo

University of New Mexico Press

Don J. Usner, author

FIRST FINALIST

The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet

Gaon Books, Publisher

Gloria Abella Ballen, author

POETRY

WINNER

Ears of Corn:  Listen

3: A Taos Press, Publisher

Max Early, author

FIRST FINALIST

Poems from the Fields of Dharma

Blue Spruce Books, Publisher

Thomas Reidy, author

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT

WINNER

How Chile Came to New Mexico

Rio Grande Books, Publisher

Rudolfo Anaya, author

FIRST FINALIST

Gator, Gator, Second Grader

Five Star Publications, Inc.

Conrad J. Storad, author

 

BODY, MIND, SPIRIT

WINNER

Gabriel’s Daughters

Jolly Fish Press, LLC, Publisher

Janet Kay Jensen, author

FIRST FINALIST

Spiritual Law: The Essence of Swedenborg’s Divine Providence

Rock Point Press, Publisher

Joanna V. Hill, author

COVER AND JACKET DESIGN

WINNER

The Wastewater Gardener:

Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time

Synergetic Press, Publisher

Mark Nelson, author

FIRST FINALIST

The King and Queen of Comezón

University of Oklahoma Press

Denise Chavez, author

SECOND FINALIST

The Roque Lobato House, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Schenck Southwest Publishing

Chris Wilson and Oliver Horn, authors

SPECIAL MENTION

Behind The Lines

Milbrown Press, Publisher

Jeffrey B. Miller, author

JIM’S CHOICE

Southwest Art Defined: An Illustrated Guide

Rio Nuevo Publishers

Margaret Moore Booker, author

If you are interested in any of these books or would like to interview any of the winners, we would be happy to arrange it.

Please contact: Karen Villanueva 239-877-4248, email: authorcare@aol.com

Body, Mind and Spirit: Gabriel's Daughters wins prestigious design award

June 17, 2015

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gabriel's Daughters won first place honors in the "Body, Mind and Spirit" category of the prestigious Southwest Book Design and Production Award. 
Entries came from five southwestern states. 
The awards were presented at the annual New Mexico Book Association Gala in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Congratulations to the team at Jolly Fish Press! 

The Southwest Book Design and Production Award 

is sponsored by

Cover Reveal: The Botanist by L.K. Hill

What an intriguing cover! From the publisher: 

In the heat of the desert, Detective Cody Oliver inadvertently stumbles upon a strange garden adorned with exotic flowers. Upon closer inspection, he finds the garden is but a cover for the scores of bodies buried below. Soon, the small town of Mt. Dessicate plunges into chaos as journalists, reporters, and cameramen from across the nation descend upon the tiny, desert town to get a piece of the action.

Along with the media, a mysterious woman appears—she may be the only person who has come face to face with the killer, dubbed the Botanist, and lived to tell the tale. If Cody can’t piece together a timeline of the land the crime scene is located on, decipher how the woman’s mysterious past is connected to the killer, and bring the Botanist to justice, he may lose the people he values most. 

Published by Jolly Fish Press, The Botanist will be available March 31, 2015 from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine retailers.

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Blog tour: Gabriel's Daughters

Gabriel's Daughters: A novel by Janet Kay Jensen

Wrestling with issues of polygamy, homosexuality, and modernity, Gabriel’s Daughters examines them through the lives of the large, loving, and polygamous Martin family. The story is told primarily through the eyes of Zina Martin, a young girl who—upon discovering she is impregnated by her “sterile” teacher and will soon be married off to a man three times her age—escapes the enclosed polygamous town of Gabriel’s Landing, Utah. Zina then embarks on a journey of self-discovery, yet she can never fully escape the longing she has for her family and even the controversial and outdated lifestyle she once lived. Through both tears and triumph, Gabriel’s Daughters reveals a moving story that not only acts as insightful social commentary but also prompts readers to re-evaluate their lives.

A few characters from Gabriel's Daughters

Janet Kay Jensen is the co-author of a literature-based cookbook, The Book Lover’s Cookbook: recipes inspired by great works of literature and the passages that feature them (Wenger & Jensen), and an award-winning novel, Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys.

She holds degrees in Speech-Language Pathology from Utah State University and Northwestern University and worked in the education field for more than twenty years.  She has taught writing courses at the local jail and is also a volunteer literacy tutor who feels genuine panic when caught without something to read.

Janet and her husband Miles, an attorney, live a quiet life in a college town nestled in the foothills of northern Utah's Rocky Mountains. They are the parents of three grown sons: a soccer enthusiast/physician in Salt Lake City Utah; an exercise physiologist/graduate student  in Jyvaskyla,Finland; and a parachute jumper/embedded systems engineer in Berkeley, California. They have happily become grandparents of three remarkable grandchildren. 

Contact the author: 

email: janetkayjensen@gmail.com 

blog:  www.janetkayjensen.blogspot.com

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janet.k.jensen 

https://www.facebook.com/JanetKayJensenAuthor

Twitter: @Janet KJensen

Gabriel's Daughters
Author: Janet Kay Jensen

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• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Jolly Fish Press (January 20, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1939967198
• ISBN-13: 978-1939967190
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 0.8 inches

Splinters--Matt Carter and FJR Twitchnell on shapeshifters!

Another book for this spooky season---and it's about shapeshifters. You'll want to pick this one up! 

Husband and wife writer team have done it again. 

Under ordinary circumstances, Ben and Mina would never have had reason to speak to each other; he's an easy-going people person with a healthy skepticism about the paranormal, and she's a dangerously obsessive monster-hunter with a crippling fear of betrayal. But the small town of Prospero, California, has no ordinary circumstances to offer. Inorder to uncover a plot set by the seemingly innocent but definitely shapeshifting monsters-that-look-like-friends-family-and-neighbors, the two stark opposites must both find ways to put aside their differences and learn to trust each other.

The authors: 

     F.J.R TITCHENELL and MATT CARTER met and fell in love in a
                   musical theatre class at Pasadena City College and have been

inseparable ever since. Though they have both dreamed of being

writers from a very young age, they both truly hit their stride after they

met, bouncing ideas off of one another, forcing each other to strive to be

better writers, and mingling Matt's lifelong love of monsters with Fiona's

equally disturbing inability to let go of high school. They were married in

2011 in a ceremony that involved kilts, Star Wars music, and a cake

topped by figurines of them fighting a zombified wedding party.

Titchenell and Carter live in San Gabriel, California.

Watch out for Little Dead Riding Hood!

When you’re the new kid at school, you know things are going to suck; but when you’re the new kid and a vampire, it bites.

Unlike most kids, Scarlet Small’s problems go far beyond just trying to fit in. She would settle for a normal life, but being a 12-year-old vampire for an entire century is a real pain in the neck. Plus, her appetite for security guards, house pets, and tomato juice is out of control. In order to keep their vampire-secret, Scarlet’s parents resort to yet another move. At her new school, Scarlet not only has a strange skeleton-girl as a classmate, but a smelly werewolf is intent on revealing her secret. When Scarlet meets Granny—who fills her with cookies, goodies, and treats, and seems to understand her more than anyone—she’s sure things will finally be different. But with a fork-stabbing incident, a cherry pie massacre, and a town full of crazy people, Scarlet’s O+ positive she’ll never live to see another undead day.

Publication Date: October 14, 2014 | Age Level: 9 - 12 | Grade Level: 4 - 7

About the Authors

AMIE BORST, a long-time writer and self-proclaimed graduate from 

ULE (University of Life Experience), is a native New Yorker, now 

residing in Northern Virginia. Originally, she aspired to be on Broadway, 

but her teen years were filled with too many "angsty" poems and short 

stories to let them fall to the wayside. She enjoys eating chocolate while 

writing and keeps a well-stocked stash hidden away from her family.

BETHANIE BORST is an all-rounder. She is a spunky 13-year-old who 

is an avid archer with Olympic dreams, enjoys the outdoors, loves 

reading, and is quick to make lasting friendships.

You can find Amie and Bethanie Borst online here:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AmieAndBethanieBorst
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmieBorst
Website: http://www.amieborst.com