Books

Feminine Collective: Raw & Unfiltered is a collection of poems and essays about relationships with self and others. Authentic, honest, at times self-deprecating and humorous. First published on FeminineCollective.com from 2014 to 2015, the women (and a few men) bravely share their unfiltered realities.

The writers of these poems are award-winning Authors, Journalists, Bloggers, and Activists, while others are previously unknown artists. The poems are a collective made of a global community. The authors are from Australia, Canada, Central America, The United Kingdom, The United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, South Africa and The United States.

Proceeds of Love Notes From Humanity, go to http://lifeafterproject.org which helps provide vital support for suicide prevention.

Julie Anderson’s debut collection is a brave, vulnerable look into the truest parts of her desires, her longings, her shame all while struggling to understand who she is, a beautiful, powerful, soul.

Julie uses poetry and a bit of prose to take us through a memoir of her life, an epic, often ugly heartbreaking journey, including being thrust into the modeling world at a young age, sexual assault, eating disorders, and being shamed by ones who are supposed to love us.

There’s a constant tug between self-hate & shame shoved onto her, and her desire to break free from that baggage and soar. And soar she does. Because ultimately, there is hope and active, powerful self-acceptance, self-belief and self-love, like a goddess clawing her way out of the flames.

Memoirs of a Legal Courtesan is the true story of a desperate ex-supermodel turned legal secretary trying to find love in all the dark places—swinging, orgies, BDSM, and finally prostitution—before she crashes and gets sober from her sex/love addiction. Shanti escapes rape and sex trafficking in the fashion industry, and sexual harassment in Hollywood, by marrying and running away. But the rural life is too boring so she divorces and returns to New York City where her sexual traumas began. Little did she know that the tragedy of 9/11 would reignite all her troubles and propel her to the brink of destruction. This is the tragic but ultimately triumphant tale of an aging beauty churning through lovers to escape her pain until she finally accepts that she suffers from sex/love addiction and fights her way to a new, sober life.