Audacious Reads: 5 Fall Reads!


Fall 2025

Audacious Reads

In this edition of Audacious Reads, you will find five fresh book recommendations and a big life update!

Books!

Each of these is on my TBR. They have a strong female lead who overcomes, exceeds, or is generally inspiring! Let's read together!

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Romantic Fantasy (the best of, IYKYK). Violet, the protagonist, survives betrayals and hardship at the war college. She must leverage what she’s learned and her strength (including bonds with dragons) to face political danger and personal loss. Onyx Storm

Good Girl by Aria Aber
Literary Fiction / Coming-of-age. Nila, a 19-year-old daughter of Afghan refugees in Berlin, tries to navigate artistic ambition, identity, desire, and marginalization — she pushes against external expectations and internal doubts. Good Girl

This Is the Year by Gloria Muñoz
YA / Climate Fiction / Speculative. Set in a near-future impacted by climate change, it features a young female lead (immigrant or from an immigrant family) confronting environmental disaster and social injustice; her struggle isn’t only external but involves navigating both identity and a collapsing world. This Is the Year

Red Sonja: Consumed by Gail Simone
Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery. Red Sonja is a classic “survivor turned warrior” figure. In this novel, she grapples with supernatural threats and her past, showing physical and emotional strength amid violence, loss, and vengeance.
Red Sonja: Consumed

Secret Society of Kings, Witches and Spirits by Farhana Uddin
Fantasy / Mythic / Paranormal. Lana Valenta, queen of the Gold Kingdom, discovers her husband’s soul is trapped in another dimension. To save him and protect her realm, she must be resourceful, brave, and navigate magical and moral challenges.
Secret Society of Kings, Witches and Spirits

Happy reading!

Big Life Update!

Now that the novels are out in the world, I'm thrilled to announce I'm working as a Fractional Chief Marketing Officer, and honestly? Everything in my career has been building to this moment. I work with trust-critical service companies (financial services, healthcare, legal, consulting, etc.) that have hit growth walls. I align with the CEO to solve problems by building systematic growth engines and retention programs, leading marketing teams, and creating ROI roll-ups that connect spend and effort to revenue.

I'm welcoming introductions to established companies that know their reputation is everything, but need someone who can translate that trust into systematic, scalable growth without losing what makes them special.

With gratitude,

Corinne

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You have capital, a product, and real pressure to show revenue growth before your next raise. Revenue Problems Solved is monthly marketing intelligence written for founders who are done playing small, from a team of Chief Marketing Officers who built revenue engines at Disney, Microsoft, Estée Lauder, and now work fractionally for funded start-ups. Curated by Corinne Cavanaugh, founder of CAC Media & Publishing. Corinne spent her career leading marketing programs at Microsoft and Liberty Mutual, founding two agencies, and serving on three boards before building a team of nine Fortune 500-trained fractional CMOs and CROs who embed with growth-stage companies to build both sides of the revenue equation: acquisition and retention. She holds a Master's Degree from Harvard University and hosts the Lightning Speed podcast. This newsletter publishes once a month. No fluff. Just the intelligence funded founders actually need.

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