Untangling Karma

Previous books by author

• This is the author's first book

Key Selling Points

• Author has been studying and practicing Zen for nearly 50 years. She's been a guiding teaching at the Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul for nine years.
• Author is very well connected to the Zen community nationally and has garnered to drawer blurbs from bestselling authors such as Natalie Goldberg and Norman Fischer
• Unlike most books on Zen, Untangling Karma uses teaching stories from real life that are alternately personal, collective, intimate, and universal. In many of them, Judith Ragir takes off the burdensome mantle of the calm Zen teacher and shows what she has actually done to find more inner peace.

Marketing

• Judith Ragir is widely known as a Zen teacher and has a wide network of relationships in the Zen and Buddhist communities. She has has received confirmed commitments from the following organizations to host and publicize book-related events soon after the publication of Untangling Karma:

  • Ancient Dragon Zen Gate, Chicago
  • Common Ground Meditation Center, Minneapolis
  • Bamboo in the Wind, Bay Area
  • Prairie Mountain Zen Center, Longmont, CO
  • themeditationplace.org (online event)
  • Clouds in Water Zen Center, St. Paul
  • Puget Sound Zen Center, Seattle/Tacoma
  • Red Cedar Zen Community, Bellingham, WA
  • Compassion Ocean Dharma Center, Minneapolis
  • Hokyoji Zen Community, Minnesota/Iowa
  • Other events are in the works.

• Galley mailing and review copy mailing.

• Edelweiss

• Outreach to Buddhist publications

• Social Media campaign