Saint Paul, MN (PRWEB) November 19, 2012

Helping Survivors Manage is proud to announce that Begin Here: helping survivors manage is the winner of the Death and Dying category in the 2012 USA Best Book Awards. What began as a personal checklist of after death tasks has become an invaluable self-help tool for others struggling to cope with the practical side of loss.

From the USA Book News Press Release:

Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: St. Martins Press, Harper Collins, Crown, John Wiley & Sons, Hyperion, McGraw-Hill, Sterling, Llewellyn Worldwide, Tyndale House, Thomas Nelson, Sounds True, Chicago Review Press, NASA, American Cancer Society and hundreds of independent houses contributed to this years outstanding competition. Keen adds, Our success begins with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise. Jeffrey Keen, President & CEO, USA Book News.

The winning book is a workbook that guides survivors through the seemingly overwhelming practical and necessary tasks that remain after a death, from residential to financial to personal. Author Kat Reed based the guidebook/toolkit on her own experiences after her mothers death. Discovering the lack of resources available to help her and her predominantly deaf father with these tasks, Reed was forced to investigate and find solutions to the practical matters for herself. In turn, she self-published her user-friendly book in 2009 as a way to ease this burden for other survivors. The book is in its second edition, printed in 2011.

When someone dies, there are countless organizations around the world that offer grief support, but none provides the comprehensive practical solutions we offer, Reed explains. Helping Survivors Manage was created on the foundation of most new ventures: a void in the market. We hope to fill that need with our experienced team of subject matter experts (those who have been through it, as well as funeral directors, professional organizers, hospice, health and death care professionals) to help others through this difficult time.

Begin Here: helping survivors manage has garnered national attention and earned acclaim as a 2009 Book Award Finalist in the Midwest Independent Publishers Association and a winner in the North American Bookdealers Exchange Fall 2010 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. More than a dozen local and national mainstream and industry-specific publications have also recognized the books immense value and shared positive reviews and endorsements, including the following: