Fearless Books is an independent publisher, located in Berkeley, California, and founded in 1997 by D. Patrick Miller. Fearless Books comprises several divisions, including its Fearless Poetry Series which is run by Sari Friedman, and it publishes spiritually-themed paperbacks along with e-books in every format, using two digital distributors to disseminate digital versions of its print books. Two of the titles from Fearless Books are The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard, a bestseller, which was later sold to Hay House; and TOUCHING: Poems of Love, Longing, and Desire (a recipient of two 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards prizes: winner of the Anthology category, and Second Place Grand Prize in the Non-Fiction category. The e-book version of TOUCHING: Poems of Love, Longing and Desire won First Prize in the Poetry Division of the Dan Poynter Global E-Book Award.
Fearless Poetry Series
The Fearless Poetry Series comprises a series of poetry anthologies. The series was launched in 2009, consisting of new voices in contemporary poetry. The first volume was The Light in Ordinary Things. TOUCHING: Poems of Love, Longing, and Desire was the second volume. All submissions to the series are evaluated on merit alone—the submissions are read and evaluated by staff without their knowing the poet’s name.
About the editors/writers
D. Patrick Miller has been studying A Course in Miracles for thirty years, and is head of the Northern California chapter of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He previously published with traditional publishers but currently focuses on writing manuscript assessments and e-book production and design. His primary focus, and the primary focus of Fearless Books, is to support manuscripts devoted to “A Course in Miracles” ideas and to disseminating information about this mind training and discipline. Sari Friedman has won literary awards including the First Prize in Fiction from The Writers' Voice in New York City. She has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and the GE Younger Writer's Award, and others. She has written a literary novel in which a young New Yorker starts remembering her past life4,000 years ago in ancient Israel. She earned an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She serves as a judge for the Northern California Book Award, and was the first wife of Dr. Peter Hotez.
