Speaking of Women's History...
These new biographies centered on Mormon women, along with Todd Compton’s new book, In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents, are three of our top sellers this year. Compton’s work is a collection of the personal writings of the women who were sealed to Joseph Smith in Nauvoo. Signature is proud to publish these volumes and is excited about the impact they are making to increasing understanding and appreciation for women who shaped Utah and American history.
And more to come! Next year we will publish Stephen Carter’s biography, Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author. Until then, you can come to know Sorensen by reading her acclaimed novels, A Little Lower Than the Angels, and Where Nothing is Long Ago, both part of Signature’s Mormon Classics series and currently available as ebooks.
Alice Faulkner Burch Joins Signature Advisory Committee
 Signature Books is pleased to announce the addition of Alice Faulkner Burch to its editorial advisory committee.
Born in Oxnard, California, to Cleo and Elwanda Faulkner, Burch is a historian of the Black American experience in Utah and the American West, and is the editor of My Lord He Calls Me: Stories of Faith By Black American Latter-day Saints (Deseret Book, 2022).
Alice serves on the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board and the Utah chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. As part of their commitment to making Utah a better place for Black Americans, Alice and her husband, Robert Burch, co-founded the Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to researching, preserving, and teaching Utah’s Black American history. Alice serves as director of special events on Sema Hadithi’s executive committee. She is also a founding member of the Utah Black Roundtable, and serves on the Utah Juneteenth Organizing Committee.
She enjoys writing, cross-stitching, and participating in the dying art of whole-cloth quilting—a skill she learned to honor her maternal grandmother. Welcome to Signature Books, Alice! You will contribute much to the advisory team.
Laurie Lee Hall Discusses her Forthcoming Memoir
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 If you’ve ever seen Salt Lake City’s Church History Library, Provo’s new Missionary Training Center, or many of the modern temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you’ve likely appreciated the beauty of these structures. What you may not know is that these iconic buildings were designed by a transgender woman. In this episode, Signature Books Director Barbara Jones Brown talks with the church’s former chief architect–and former stake president–Laurie Lee Hall about her forthcoming memoir from Signature. Hall hopes her story will foster greater understanding of the transgender experience while increasing hope and joy in the lives of Queer individuals and their loved ones.
Click here to listen to this episode. Then, check out all previous episodes, which feature our authors discussing their books. You will be glad you did! November will be a busy month for Signature podcast releases, so be sure to subscribe to the podcast, and stay tuned.
Annual Black Friday Kindle Sale Around the Corner
Do you like to read your books on your device? If so, Signature has released more than 130 of its titles as ebooks, with more on the way! We occasionally discount a dozen titles for a special sale. This year’s Black Friday sale will be from Friday, November 25 through Sunday, November 27. We will send out a notice several days in advance so that you can be prepared for these significant price drops. When it comes, make sure you click on it to see the treasures awaiting you.
Next Release: A Memoir by Michael Hicks
If you have time to unwind just before the holidays kick in, plan on reading Wineskin: Freaking Jesus in the ‘60s and ‘70s, the new memoir by Michael Hicks, which will be released on November 19. Hicks is familiar to many as a music historian and music professor who recently retired from BYU. Hicks describes his book as “a tale studded with awkward episodes of sex, drugs, and rock and roll (not necessarily in that order), along with alcohol, sci-fi, theft, radical politics, cartooning, halfway houses, and the musical avant-garde. The one constant is the brooding figure of Jesus Christ behind Hicks’s various personal reclamations and metamorphoses, often via methods admittedly off the books.”
Kristine Haglund calls Wineskin “the least plausible and most compelling conversion story you're ever likely to read. An astonishingly well-documented and vividly portrayed recollection of a singular consciousness at once alive to the currents of change in the 1970s in America and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and keenly attuned to the transcendent and eternal. Altogether remarkable.” So, if you are ready to join this ride, hop on beginning November 19!
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