A note about the name on the books
There is one piece of the house I want to make clear from the beginning.
Samantha Rosen — Sam — is my author identity.
The stories I write are real. The experiences behind them are real. But they are not mine alone. They involve people I love, people who did not choose to become characters simply because their lives intersected with mine.
Writing as Sam gives me a little room between the life I live and the stories I tell. It lets me write honestly while protecting some of the people who appear in those stories.
It isn’t about pretending to be someone else. Sam is me. She is simply the name I have chosen for my life as an author.
So when you see Samantha Rosen on a book published by Sage Lotus Press, there is no hidden person behind either name.
There is me.
And the stories are real.
Sage Lotus Press is a small independent house
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It publishes narrative nonfiction, Japanese philosophy, practical guides for the second half, and the occasional book that exists only because nobody had written the one I needed.
The name is two things.
The lotus, which does not grow in spite of the mud.
And sage, the thread that runs through everything I make.
What sits underneath all of it is a refusal to overstate.
There is a lot of writing for women in hard seasons that explains the body with more confidence than anybody actually has, and promises more than a book can deliver.
I would rather publish something narrower that holds.
If the research is thin, I want to say that.
If something is useful but we don’t fully understand why, I want to say that too.
And if an idea helped me personally, that does not automatically make it a prescription for someone else’s life.
That distinction matters to me.
Sage Lotus Press sits at the intersection of what we know, what we have lived, and what we are still trying to understand.
Some of what I publish is practical.
Some is reflective.
Some of it comes through Japanese ideas that gave me language for experiences I already knew but didn’t yet know how to name.
And some of it simply says: this is what happened, this is what I learned from it, and perhaps there is something here that belongs to you too.
The line beneath Sage Lotus Press is:
Empowering Wisdom, Transforming Lives.
I mean it literally rather than decoratively.
Not transformation as reinvention overnight.
Not empowerment as pretending difficult things aren’t difficult.
Wisdom that gives you a little more language, a little more context, or a slightly different place to stand.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll show you more of what lives inside Sage Lotus Press: the four series that each do a different job, the standalone books, the practical guides, and the work still taking shape.
But I wanted to begin with the house itself.
Because everything else comes from here.
Sage Lotus Press