BOOKS

there are four series in the Rose Press bouquet of books:

  1. The Creative Process — including: Starting Your Book / An Organic Approach to Structuring Your Book / 10 Essential Qualities That Help You Write a Book

  2. Money and the Inner Life— including: MotherWealth: The Feminine Path to Money

  3. Healing the World from Inside Out— including: Healing Civilization

  4. The Poetry of Ordinary Life— including: A New Life / At Work on the Garments of Refuge / Jelaluddin Rumi Comes to Oakland

Decorative header graphic for Series 1: The Creative Process — a series that brings you closer to the Source of creation within you, offering insights and encouragement to write a book with your authentic voice and message.

books to enhance your creative Process

by Naomi Rose

STARTING YOUR BOOK

A Guide to Navigating the Blank Page by Attending to What’s Inside You, by Naomi Rose

A unique, person-centered book on writing a book that lets you use your inner compass and discover your natural creative ways so you can write the book of your heart. "A thoroughly illuminating and instructive take on the craft of writing." — Kirkus Reviews

AN ORGANIC APPROACH TO STRUCTURING YOUR BOOK

A Right-Brained Alternative to Outlines

by Naomi Rose

Don’t love making outlines? Discover how to let your book's natural shape emerge from your material rather than forcing it into someone else’s template.

10 ESSENTIAL QUALITIES THAT HELP YOU WRITE A BOOK

Watering the Seeds of the Qualities You Need

by Naomi Rose

Cultivate your inner capacities —from courage to curiosity to intimate noticing, and 7 more — that support your writing journey.

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Decorative header graphic for Series 2: Money and the Inner Life — a series exploring how our connection with our deeper nature is the real key to having what we need and trusting life to support us.
MotherWealth: The Feminine Path to Money book cover by Naomi Rose.

MotherWealth:

The Feminine Path to Money

by Naomi Rose

A transformative memoir exploring how reclaiming your feminine nature and trust in life can heal your relationship with money — moving beyond the patriarchal "going out to get" model to discover an inside-out path to true wealth.

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Book cover for “Healing Civilization” by Claudio Naranjo with foreword by Jean Houston, featuring a vibrant geometric mandala design in orange, pink, and blue against a deep blue patterned background.

HEALING CIVILIZATION

Bringing Personal Transformation into the Societal Realm through . . . the Intra-Psychic Family

by Claudio Naranjo, MD.

Introduction by Jean Houston, PhD

From the consciousness pioneer who brought the Enneagram of Personality to the West, here is Dr. Claudio Naranjo's diagnosis of the patriarchal overlay that ails civilization—and how we can heal it from within by integrating our inner father (head), mother (heart), and child (instinctual center).

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A New Life: Poems by Ralph Dranow book cover

A NEW LIFE: POEMS

by Ralph Dranow

76 accessible, compassionate poems that transform everyday moments — from family playing Frisbee to a toll taker's smile — into revelations of wonder and human connection.

At Work on the Garments of Refuge: Poetry by Ralph Dranow and Daniel Marlin book cover

AT WORK ON THE GARMENTS OF REFUGE

Poems by Ralph Dranow and Daniel Marlin

A memorial tribute celebrating 39 years of literary friendship between two Oakland poets: 112 poems exploring social justice, love, and the human experience, featuring original artwork by the late Daniel Marlin.

With original art by Daniel Marlin.

Book cover of "Jelaluddin Rumi Comes to Oakland: Poems" by Ralph Dranow, featuring a watercolor illustration of Rumi in a yellow robe and green turban signing books at a table in a bookstore, with two women looking on.

What happens when a 13th-century Sufi poet shows up at an Oakland bakery?*

Ralph Dranow's book, Jelaluddin Rumi Comes to Oakland, answers with poems that find the sacred tucked into the everyday—in a driving instructor's patient smile, an emergency room nurse's steady hands, two oak trees standing witness to time. With tenderness and sly humor, Dranow transforms the mundane into the miraculous: grocery lines become meditations, a new bath mat sings lullabies, political figures stumble toward redemption. These poems of deep noticing are a balm for troubled times and hungry hearts.

* Arizmendi Bakery, Lakeshore Avenue

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