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- ['The Price We Pay' - An Open Letter to Book Club Facilitators and Presidents…](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-an-open-letter-to-book-club-facilitators-and-presidents/) - …and Those Who Want to Start One At PTP Press, the traditional imprint of Path To Publishing, we recognize the value that book clubs bring to their members, to authors attempting to spread a message, and to publishers like us. We value the work that you do. Bringing in a book like The Price We
- ['The Price We Pay' - An Open Letter to Publishers](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-an-open-letter-to-publishers/) - This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every publisher who signed on to publish a book and wondered, “Will it be worth the investment?” We know what that’s like. We know the risks you take, both professionally and financially, every time you say “yes” to one title and “no” to another. We
- ['The Price We Pay' - An Open Letter to Business Owners & Entrepreneurs](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-an-open-letter-to-business-owners-entrepreneurs/) - This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every business owner and entrepreneur who is concerned about the impact that growing racial divisions and escalating tensions will have on their business. Unaddressed racism hurts the bottom line. It leads to ​higher employee turnover and lawsuits​. It can also impact the goodwill of consumers,
- ['The Price We Pay' - An Open Letter to Parents & Grandparents](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-an-open-letter-to-parents-grandparents/) - This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every parent or grandparent who watches in frustration as their children grow up amidst growing racial divisions and escalating tensions, fearing for their safety, and wonders, “What can I do?” The answer: Help us open the doors to communication and change the conversation around race
- ['The Price We Pay' - An Open Letter to Pastors](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-an-open-letter-to-pastors/) - This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every pastor who feels frustrated as they watch youth who grow up and leave the Church, and wonder, "What can I do?" The answer: Help us open the doors to communication around religion and its role in improving race relations. Religion gets a lot of
- ['The Price We Pay' - An Open Letter to Educators](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-an-open-letter-to-educators/) - This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every educator who ever stepped up in front of a classroom and wondered, "Does my work matter?" The short answer: Yes. Teaching is a leadership position. Society may forget this, and the pay educators receive may not always reflect this, but it is true. The
- ['The Price We Pay' - An Open Letter to Writers](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-an-open-letter-to-writers/) - This is an open letter from Path To Publishing to every writer who ever sat down at a keyboard and wondered, "Does it matter whether I finish this or not?" The short answer: Yes. Writing is a leadership position. Society may forget this, and the pay writers receive may not always reflect this, but it
- ['The Price We Pay' - Our Pledge to Our Supporters](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-our-pledge-to-our-supporters/) - The crowdfunding campaign we are running for The Price We Pay -- the novel being released on Path To Publishing’s traditional publishing imprint, PTP Press -- is much more than a book. It is a movement to cultivate LEADERS who are not content to allow racial divisions to grow unchecked and who are willing to take action
- [Great LEADERS Encourage Cooperation](https://ptppress.com/great-leaders-encourage-cooperation/) - It's one thing to build a community of like-minded individuals, but to build momentum, that first community must extend beyond itself to cooperate with other organizations and communities that share similar goals. The more people that are involved, the faster progress can be made as new ideas and greater energy is added to the mix.
- [Great LEADERS Build Communities](https://ptppress.com/great-leaders-build-communities/) - A leader who recruits individuals has followers. Great LEADERS bring those followers together into a tight-knit community that supports and encourages one another. As a unit, they stand strong and continue working together to achieve the vision even when the leader isn't there to help guide them. Weak leaders fear people communicating, connecting, and coming
- [Great LEADERS Connect with Others](https://ptppress.com/great-leaders-connect-with-others/) - People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." – Theodore Roosevelt No leader, no matter how great, can accomplish anything without the support of others. They gain that support by connecting, on a personal level, with those they recruit to join them. A leader can have the greatest vision the
- [Great LEADERS Communicate with CLARITY and CONSISTENCY](https://ptppress.com/great-leaders-communicate-with-clarity-and-consistency/) - Changing the conversation around race relations requires effective leadership, which begins with clarity around the vision. That vision then fuels the goals of the movement and directs the work being done to change the conversation. For that reason, the leader must be able to clearly and effectively communicate: Their vision of what life will be
- [Great LEADERS Know How to Communicate and Convert](https://ptppress.com/great-leaders-know-how-to-communicate-and-convert/) - Being able to engage in difficult conversations is the hallmark of great LEADERS. Great LEADERS possess clarity around their vision and mission. They know how to communicate those things to others in a way that makes the benefits of supporting the vision clear. But they don't stop there. They are prepared for the opposition. They
- [Great LEADERS are MAGNETIC!](https://ptppress.com/great-leaders-are-magnetic/) - Great LEADERS are magnetic. Rather than pushing an agenda on people, they leverage their knowledge of their ideal audience and its desires to attract supporters to them and to their vision. Being magnetic, though, does not mean that everyone will be attracted to the leader's message and the vision it carries. It means that the
- [Cultivating LEADERS in Difficult Conversations](https://ptppress.com/cultivating-leaders-in-difficult-conversations/) - At Path To Publishing, our goal is to cultivate LEADERS who excel at difficult conversations because they: Listen to understand the other side's point of view before responding Empathize with the other persons' positions, trying to see the world through their eyes Ask relevant questions to help them clarify the other persons' meanings and intentions
- [Why Stories Make the Ideal Tool for Initiating Difficult Conversations](https://ptppress.com/why-stories-make-the-ideal-tool-for-initiating-difficult-conversations/) - The human brain is wired for stories. Research published in 2008 based on fMRI studies of the human brain as it processes stories suggests that the brain remembers and processes a well-told story as if the events in that story happened to the individual reading it in real life. This makes stories an ideal tool for initiating
- [What Makes Change So Difficult…](https://ptppress.com/what-makes-change-so-difficult/) - ...and Why a Novel Approach Is Needed A study conducted by the University of Scranton on people’s ability to make lasting change, as measured by their ability to stick to a New Year's Resolution, found that only 19% of people who resolved to change stuck to it after two years. That study highlights the challenge
- [Complaining and Blaming Is Easy. LEADERS Take Action](https://ptppress.com/complaining-and-blaming-is-easy-leaders-take-action/) - It's a fact that racial divisions are growing in America, with more than 59% of Black Americans expressing a lack of hope that racial relations can ever improve. There are plenty of reasons to complain about this and more than enough blame to go around, but while those things are easier, they in no way
- [The Benefits of Engaging in Difficult Conversations](https://ptppress.com/the-benefits-of-engaging-in-difficult-conversations/) - When it comes to difficult conversations, avoiding the five big mistakes most people make is critical. Most people, not knowing how to avoid those mistakes, will simply choose to walk away from the conversation or avoid it. Unfortunately, that doesn't resolve the conflict that the difficult conversation is designed to overcome. The hurt feelings, frustrations,
- [The Value of Listening to Opposing Viewpoints](https://ptppress.com/the-value-of-listening-to-opposing-viewpoints/) - Anyone who studies art soon discovers that perspective is not reality. It is a distorted version of reality based on the limitations of human eyesight and the position of the viewer. The only way for artists to draw with accuracy is to forget all the facts they know to be true about an object and
- [How to Avoid the Top 5 Conversation Mistakes](https://ptppress.com/how-to-avoid-the-top-5-conversation-mistakes/) - Many books and publications tackle subject matters that lead to hard conversations to have. This can often be awkward for some authors during readings and signings, or even during panel discussions and live videos. Difficult conversations are difficult because they are high-stakes conversations. At risk in this moment is the relationship with the other person,
- [What Makes Difficult Conversations So Difficult…](https://ptppress.com/what-makes-difficult-conversations-so-difficult/) - ..and What We Can Do About It It's not hard to have a conversation about which color in a crayon box is the best. That's because there are no emotional stakes to that conversation. It's just one person's opinion versus another's. What's being traded is of equal value but offers no emotional attachment. However, when
- [Why It’s So Hard to Talk to Each Other…](https://ptppress.com/why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-each-other/) - ...and How We Can Overcome That There's an ancient Indian story about four blind men examining an elephant and attempting to define for each other what an elephant was based on this. One held the trunk and reported that an elephant was long and tubular with two holes at one end. One held the tail
- ['The Price We Pay' Is Where Our Plans to Address the Problems of Racial Divisions in America Begins.](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-is-where-our-plans-to-address-the-problems-of-racial-divisions-in-america-begins/) - But We're Not Stopping There. Path To Publishing has long recognized the power of books to be agents of change. We know that a book can unlock hearts and lead people to question the current culture and their role in it. Path To Publishing hopes to leverage the book from our traditional publishing imprint, PTP
- [Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Matter…](https://ptppress.com/why-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-matter/) - ..What They Mean to Us, and Why We’re Taking the Lead in Healing the Racial Divides Many people hear the words Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and automatically tense up. They either prepare for a fight or get ready to defend themselves. The assumption is that the only way that other voices can be included at
- [When It Comes to Closing the Racial Divides, Every Voice Matters](https://ptppress.com/when-it-comes-to-closing-the-racial-divides-every-voice-matters/) - Nikki T. Anthony's debut novel, The Price We Pay, centers around a teenage girl by the name of Zenetta Henchman, but her story is one that almost every age group can relate to and understand. It's a human story about a person who doesn't see her own significance in life. She's up against a system that's been
- [Partnering with Nikki T. Anthony to Make a Difference](https://ptppress.com/partnering-with-nikki-t-anthony-to-make-a-difference/) - Author Nikki T. Anthony wrote her debut novel, The Price We Pay, based on her own experiences growing up as a Black girl living in a racially-divided America. Although the story is fiction, the events it describes ring true for many Black adults who have experienced the same things in their own communities. That's why Path To
- [There's a Price We Pay for Silence When It Comes to Race Relations](https://ptppress.com/theres-a-price-we-pay-for-silence-when-it-comes-to-race-relations/) - Zenetta Henchman lives in the small rural town of Buzzardville, Alabama, in the early 1990s. Like many small Southern towns, its residents are caught between the old-time ways of segregation and the more modern ways of integration. When Zenetta experiences firsthand the dark side of the racial conflicts that bubble beneath the surface of her
- [Racial Divides Are Hurting Our Children. Here’s What We’re Doing About It.](https://ptppress.com/racial-divides-are-hurting-our-children-heres-what-were-doing-about-it/) - There's a price we pay for failing to address the growing divide between races. The highest price is not paid by adults, however, but by children. That price is often emotional, mental, psychological, physical, and financial as they deal with divisions in their families, incarceration of parents, and growing up years spent bouncing from home
- [Racial Divides Are Growing in America. We Have a Novel Approach to the Problem.](https://ptppress.com/racial-divides-are-growing-in-america-we-have-a-novel-approach-to-the-problem/) - "If you always do what you've always done, you always get what you've always gotten." – Jessie Porter, Woman to Woman Conference According to a recent Gallup poll, 70% of the population of the United States reports being worried about race relations, and 68% reports being dissatisfied with the state of it. While 60% of
- [The Price We Pay Named Finalist for IBPA's 2024 Benjamin Franklin Awards](https://ptppress.com/the-price-we-pay-named-finalist-for-ibpas-2024-benjamin-franklin-awards/) - Out of more than 1,800 entries across 57 categories, the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards have narrowed it down to three books in each category. PTP Press, the traditional publishing imprint of Path To Publishing, and author Nikki T. Anthony are thrilled to announce that The Price We Pay has been named a finalist for the Bill Fisher Award
- [TikTok Introducing 8th Note Press](https://ptppress.com/tiktok-introducing-8th-note-press/) - The Social Media Company Is Looking To Give Amazon, and Traditional Publishing, A Run for Its Money...But Is That What's Best for Authors? TikTok, a social media app produced by Chinese-owned company ByteDance, is the sixth most popular social media outlet to date. Its 1.67 billion active users are located across 160 countries. Almost half
- [Tackling Minority Mental Health Issues](https://ptppress.com/tackling-minority-mental-health-issues/) - When we talk about mental health, we're talking about something that includes our psychological, emotional, and social well-being. We're talking about something that affects how we feel, how we think, and how we act. These things are part of what determines how we make choices, relate to others, and handle stress. According to the CDC, one
- [Let's Try Civil Discourse Rather Than Civil War](https://ptppress.com/lets-try-civil-discourse-rather-than-civil-war/) - Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the early 1850’s. It was published in book form in 1852 to highlight the plight of slaves and bring attention to the mistreatment they received. That book wove its way into the tapestry of American public opinion and in less than 12 years, Stowe’s book was being

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- [Books](https://ptppress.com/books/) - Learn about The Price We Pay Learn about B.E. S.E.E.N. Study Guide Introducing The Price We Pay The Price We Pay is the debut novel of Chicago author, Nikki T Anthony. This Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Awards and Literary Titan award-winning book awakens you to the racial injustices rooted in Black teen, Zenetta’s, small town
- [Taking A Novel Approach To Change](https://ptppress.com/taking-a-novel-approach-to-change/) - At PTP Press, we don't just look for books that can make us money or that readers will enjoy reading. We look for books that can make a lasting social impact and bring positive change to negative situations. Then, we create the tools that will support our authors and readers in achieving that vision. Two
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- [Hallo, Frankfurt Book Fair!](https://ptppress.com/hallo-frankfurt/) - Publications Available for Book Fair Translation Rights Award-Winning Novel: The Price We Pay by Nikki T. Anthony TPWP Updated One Sheet 2024Download TPWP Marketing TasksDownload Educational Pieces Also Available B.E. S.E.E.N. Training Sell Sheet- Schools-Government-CorporateDownload Debut Novel: Dissent Series, Book 1: Acceptance by John R. Kyle (Coming Summer 2025) The Book: Acceptance Supporting Educational Content:
- [Welcome to the B.E. S.E.E.N. Training!](https://ptppress.com/welcome-to-the-b-e-s-e-e-n-training/) - We're excited to join you on this journey to personal growth as you work to grow your interpersonal relationship, communication, and conflict-resolution skills. Grab your resources! 1. Chapter 1 of The Price We Pay You'll need to use this to help you with the study guide and the workbook. 2. The B.E. S.E.E.N. Study Guide
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- [Vegas-Based Publisher Taking a Novel Approach to Race Relations](https://ptppress.com/media/vegas-based-publisher-taking-a-novel-approach-to-race-relations/) - Las Vegas, NV, October 3, 2022: PTP Press (https://ptppress.com) CEO and founder, Joylynn M. Ross, is no stranger to navigating the challenges of multiracial conversations about race. She serves on the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Those aren’t just buzz words at PTP Press or its sister company, Path To Publishing,
- [Chicago Author’s Debut Novel Lands 5-Figure 3-Book Deal with PTP Press](https://ptppress.com/media/chicago-authors-debut-novel-lands-5-figure-3-book-deal-with-ptp-press/) - Las Vegas, NV, October 3, 2022: Chicago author Nikki T. Anthony is no stranger to navigating the challenges of race relations or the damage caused by racism. A Black woman raised by her biological White great-grandmother (her mom’s grandmother), Nikki experienced plenty of both while growing up. Nikki’s great-grandmother raised her alone, as her spouse
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