By: Alena Wiese

An anthology written by eleven women has maintained a steady presence in its Amazon category since publication, with a recent feature on a Times Square billboard adding to its profile.

Most books peak in their first week and quietly disappear from view. Alpha Queens Rising: Where Purpose Meets Power has done something increasingly rare. It has stayed.

The anthology, written by a collective of eleven women leaders and published by Daily Success Media Network, has held a sustained position in its Amazon category since release, with visibility that has remained consistent across weeks and months. That presence has been driven not by advertising spend but by the kind of organic word-of-mouth that publishers spend years trying to manufacture and rarely achieve.

Add to that a recent feature on a Times Square billboard in New York City, and the picture comes into focus. The book is not a flash-in-the-pan release. It is building something.

A Different Kind of Leadership Book

The book was never designed to follow conventional leadership publishing formulas. There is no single guru at the center, no one origin story, no universal five-step framework. Instead, the anthology was conceived from the outset as a collective. Eleven distinct voices, eleven distinct professional backgrounds, one shared conviction that leadership rooted in purpose outlasts leadership rooted in pressure.

Karissa Adkins, the movement’s founder and the architect of the project, describes the book as a response to a particular exhaustion she observed in high-achieving women.

“This is about women leading from alignment rather than pressure. Each contributor brings a different expression of leadership, but the common thread is agency and purpose, and the ability to sustain it over time.”

That framing resonates across the contributor list, which spans health and wellness, entrepreneurship, finance, suicide prevention, and professional development. The range is intentional. Adkins wanted readers to see that the leadership model the book describes is not the property of one industry or one personality type. It is portable, adaptable, and grounded in something more durable than market trends.

Sustained Reader Engagement

When Alpha Queens Rising launched, it gained early Kindle traction and was recognized within its launch categories as a new release. Those are strong launch results. But launch results are common. What followed is not.

The book has maintained continued visibility in its category since publication. For context, Amazon’s bestseller rankings update hourly, and most books, including many with significant marketing budgets behind them, fall out of their category’s top tier within weeks of release. Sustained category placement over an extended period points to a reader base that is actively recommending the book, leaving reviews, and returning to it as a resource.

The story since launch may matter more than the story at launch.

A Signal That Reached Times Square

If the book’s Amazon performance represents its digital footprint, the Times Square billboard represents something different. It is the moment a publishing story crosses into cultural visibility.

Times Square draws an estimated 50 million visitors per year. A feature there does not happen by accident, and it does not go unnoticed. For a debut anthology by a collective of independent women leaders, not a celebrity memoir, not a business book from a Fortune 500 executive, the placement carries weight.

It signals that the audience for this kind of leadership conversation is larger than the traditional gatekeepers of the publishing industry have historically assumed. Women who lead in clinics, consulting firms, coaching practices, and painting companies are reading, recommending, and making noise.

Eleven Voices, One Framework

The contributors include Tiffany Lukasiewicz of the Lioness Alchemy Collective, Traci Coven, founder of Inner Game Performance, Jennifer Jorgensen, a suicide-prevention advocate and program creator, Leanne Harrell-McCoy, a leadership and movement mentor, Sarah Bouse, FNTP, creator of the ASCEND Method™, Stefanie Mendoza, owner of Modern Painting, Samantha Rambo, FNP-C, founder of Wellness for Any Body, Larissa Reid, founder of In The Black Business Services, Kay Spears, MS, CCN, CNS, and Angel Cottrell, founder of Apollo Consultancy Group.

Each chapter stands on its own. Each contributor writes from lived professional experience rather than theory. Read together, the book builds a cumulative case that the most sustainable form of leadership is not the loudest or the most aggressive, but the most aligned.

Beyond the Book

The project has also extended into philanthropy. The collective made a direct contribution to FITGirl Inc., a Nebraska-based nonprofit focused on building confidence, mentorship, and emotional resilience in girls. The contribution reflects what the collective describes as a non-negotiable principle of the project. Leadership without community investment is incomplete.

For a debut anthology, the full arc of Alpha Queens Rising, from Amazon presence to Times Square to a contribution to a girls’ nonprofit in Nebraska, is a case study in what happens when a book is built around a genuine community rather than a marketing calendar.

Alpha Queens Rising: Where Purpose Meets Power is available in Kindle and print formats at amazon.com/ALPHA-QUEENS-RISING.

Published by Daily Success Media Network

Community: Alpha Queens Rising Facebook Group