The Sovereign Series Co-Authorship Writing Program

Reclaiming Mental Health

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This volume of the Sovereign Series will hold space for the stories that often go untold. The ones that live beneath the surface of “I’m fine.”

This is a call to the courageous. To the ones who have faced the storm inside their own mind or walked beside someone they love through theirs. The ones who know what it feels like to be misunderstood, mislabeled, over-medicated, under-supported, over-curated, or simply invisible.

Your Lead Author: Sarah Sturino

Sarah is an outspoken introvert, recovering "anxiety queen," crystal collector, avid reader, lifelong learner, sun seeker, and ocean lover. She resides in southern Ontario with her partner Scott, but plans on relocating to a sunnier destination in the near future.

While working as an educator, Sarah expanded her passion for wellness by earning certifications in Pilates, Mindfulness, and Reiki. She began teaching exercise classes, facilitating women’s circles, and leading retreats. Now, having closed the chapter on her school teaching career, she focuses on using these tools to guide women under her brand, Empowered Wellness.

Recently, Sarah achieved certification as an Applied Quantum Biology Practitioner and launched her podcast, From the Mouth of a Woman, where she fosters bold and thought-provoking conversations on a wide range of topics.

Her mission is simple yet profound: to help women embrace life’s challenges as opportunities for growth, achieving balance, purpose, and joy in every aspect of their lives. Instead of letting life harden you, Sarah believes in letting it expand and empower you to your fullest potential.

You can find Sarah on Instagram at @sssturino.

“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

- Leonard Cohen

Our Co-authorship Program

Writing Support

Through our writing program, you will receive support from your lead author throughout our 9-week writing cycle. As well, our robust author resources kit provides you with in depth support when it comes to defining your writing style, establishing your story, what to include, what not to include, writing timelines, depth & more.

Community

Most of our authors come into these projects expecting to simply write their story and become a published author. Yet most leave this process with unexpected new friends, and connections. Writing is an intimate experience, and you're in good company with other women. Connect in our group channel, and online during our monthly group support calls.

Full Production

We take care of absolutely everything. Manuscript development. Editing. Proofreading. Interior design. Typesetting. Cover design. Marketing graphics. Marketing, branding & PR training, and launch support. We provide self-publishing services, with traditional publishing value.

Project Timeline (6 months)

Project Preparation - This includes establishing the project concept, selecting a lead author, preparing all launch materials, establishing production timelines, application & onboarding.

Writing Phase - This includes a brainstorming, first-draft and final-draft phase. Within this period is where our co-authors will also receive support from the lead author, leverage our writing resources & tools, and join our monthly group support calls.

Design - Our design phase is where the cover and interior design concepts are established.

Manuscript - Once the writing process has been completed, the lead author compiles the manuscript to submit to the publishing house.

Production Cycle - During this period, the editing process is completed, followed by the implementation of design, proofreading & total review.

Final Approvals - Co-authors have a chance to sign off on their chapters, and address any minor changes that may need to be made. Followed by the formal publishing house sign off process.

Amazon Upload - The book is then uploaded to Amazon, set with the official live date as per the book's scheduled launch date.

Launch - The book is formally launched on Amazon, with a celebratory kick-off call for authors to invite their friends and family to. There is a strong focus on the launch for a period of 72 hours to climb the charts on Amazon across relative categories.

Post-Launch Debrief - The publishing house team, production team and lead author meet to discuss the project, identifying both successes to celebrate, and opportunities to continue to refine the process for future projects.

All authors have full visibility of the approved timeline for each stage.

Whether you’ve been diagnosed, dismissed, disassociated, or deeply transformed, your story matters. This is not a clinical anthology. This is not a surface-level collection of tips and tricks. This is a raw, sovereign storytelling project that reclaims the conversation on mental health from the system and brings it back to the soul.

Whether you’ve navigated the fog of depression, the highwire of anxiety, the collapse of burnout, the complexity of PTSD, or the weight of holding it all together for everyone else, your truth belongs in this book.

We are calling in co-authors who are willing to write from the inside. People who have lived it, not studied it. People who know what it means to break down, ask for help (or not), meet their shadow, survive the dark, and find their way toward wholeness in unconventional, courageous, and deeply personal ways.

This book is for those who understand that mental health isn’t a buzzword. It’s lived, and it's layered.