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Palette of Secrets Runner-Up in 2016 Best Indie Book
Joan Fallon has good reason to be proud of Palette of Secrets. It is an amazingly well-written story of Nancy Miller, an aging artist struggles to forget the secret that …
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Short & Helpful™ Online Writer Workshops are now at SHOWWS.com
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A Drop from the Well of Creativity
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A Fragile World
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A Matter of Perception
Take a journey into a world where the hidden becomes manifest and the lines between fantasy and reality blur. This collection of imaginative and entertaining stories about ghosts, sirens, demons, …
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A Whole in the Pavement
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All Roads Lead to the Same Place–and It Isn’t Rome
Looking for a publisher should be simple, right? How hard can it be? Do a Google search and surely pages of publishers will pop out. I decided to try doing …
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Aunt Nellie B
Charli is convinced that the women in her family are the victims of a curse—they go through husbands at an alarming rate. At a very young age, she begins a …
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Switch to Advanced Search for Book Titles Search by Title or Keyword Palette of Secrets Runner-Up in 2016 Best Indie Book Joan Fallon has good reason to be proud of …
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Belonging in Africa
Sara’s Story of Love and Longing Sam and Sara fall in love assuming the difference in skin color won’t matter, but painful prejudices from their own families is only the …
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Bernie O’Dea Mysteries
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Beware the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes
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Born a Refugee
NOVEMBER 1974: Ali, reeking of tear gas, darts down an alley, listening for the thud of combat boots behind him. Living amidst the overcrowding, poverty, and political violence of the …
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Born a Refugee
The haunting yet beautiful story of a family of four brothers and their widowed mother living in a tiny house in the Kalandia Refugee Camp near Jerusalem as they face …
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Born a Refugee
This is a deep, rich, poignant and profoundly humanistic book. It is also one of the best “political” books I have ever read.
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Checkpoint Kalandia
The story of one man’s journey to the depths of human despondency.
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Cold Hard News
Meticulous! Compelling! A Page Turner! Extraordinarily Accomplished!
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Cold Hard News
(Milliken) builds the plot like someone meticulously laying kindling for a bonfire — stick by stick.
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Cold Hard News
In Bernie O’Dea, Maureen Milliken has created a one of the most complicated, compelling heroines I’ve read in ages. Deeply flawed, but strong in both heart and nerve, I’d follow …
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Cold Hard News
… Milliken nails the people and politics of a small town, while keeping us glued to the page with a pair of wounded protagonists we can’t help rooting for. It’s …
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Cold Hard News
Bernie O’Dea is the owner/editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, a small town newspaper, so you’ll get a real inside look at the newspaper world. And no one knows the …
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Commercial Publishing: How Brief the Joy!
How long does it take an author to write a book? The answer varies from author to author. Some authors can take years to research the facts behind their stories. …
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Dames Quixote – Four Women Tilting at Windmills
Jean Reeves is a grandmother, an investment and financial advisor, a pacifist, and a very reluctant “private investigator.” She and her three friends mix humor with danger, tragedy with triumph …
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Dames Quixote: Queen
“All the characters are strong and believable. The dialogue is funny and natural…highly engaging.” G.B.Knetl
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Dames Quixote: Queen and Warrior (Set)
“Smart, funny, and involved in their community…I wish these women were my friends, family, and neighbors.” Barbara Seiders, author
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Dames Quixote: Warrior
“Roop takes on a difficult subject and deftly weaves her story around it…leaving me to look forward to the next adventure of the Dames Quixote.” Barbara Seider, author
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Demon’s Grip
Demon slayer Ariel Malony thought she knew Nick, but she discovers that at the University of Sheldra, he is a respected translator with little time to spare. Now that he …
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Diamond Peak Series
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Dixiane Hallaj
Dixiane Hallaj lives in the small town of Purcellville, Virginia, with her husband of over fifty years and their cat named Dog. After a long career as an educator and …
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Dixiane Hallaj, Ph.D.
When Dixiane’s doctoral dissertation was described as a page-turner, she turned her talents to writing fiction. Impatient with the trade publishing process, she founded S & H Publishing, Inc. in …
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Dream Time
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Eternal Destiny
Ariel and Nick Walker face their deepest fears and their greatest challenge as they search for the Master Demon who holds the key to the future of mankind. Slay him …
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Good writing is a craft …
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Guess Who’s Writing Books?
We were seated near a group of gray-beards in our local Ihop. Stray words spoken less than two feet from my ear penetrated the pauses in my own conversation. “…replaced …
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How to Submit a Novel for Consideration
Start with an outstanding book and push it to the next level Because Writing is an Art, and Publishing is a Business. The book market of today is more alive …
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I’d Rather Die
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Ian Lahey
Ian Lahey was born in Milan, Italy, to an American father and an Italian mother. In the 80’s his dad took him and his brother on a long tour around …
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Indian Blood
It was the mid-1880s and the dirt farmers were moving West to put fences around the open range. Trouble swirled all around the once peaceful valley, and every time it …
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Insights, Tips, Interviews, and Opinion are the Focus of Scribe & Hortatory, the Official Blog of S&H Publishing
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Interview with Lenora Rain-Lee Good
Madame Dorion: Her Journey to the Oregon Country—historically accurate with fun-filled fiction. The fact that the fiction is clearly identifiable was one of the things that attracted me to this …
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Interview with Maureen Milliken
Maureen writes about what she knows and what she loves: newspapers and Maine. As a third generation newspaper editor, she portrays her protagonist, Bernie O’Dea, with a realism that can’t …
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It’s Just Lola
Born in 1894, youngest daughter of a wealthy Peruvian landowner, Lola was seduced at an early age, disowned and forced to leave her father’s plantation. Twice widowed with three children …
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J. D. Kipfer
Jean Kipfer was born and raised in Southern West Virginia. She spent her childhood following her Grandfather around the farm and orchards, listening to him tell tales of past generations. …
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Jane Roop
Jane Roop lives in Kennewick, Washington, home of the Kennewick Man, at the convergence of three rivers: the Columbia, the Snake, and the Yakima. She shares her life on an …
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Jess Barry
Jess Barry loves old architecture, live theater (especially musicals), and astronomy and aerospace news. She studied journalism and German and worked as a technical translator. Her mystery/romance Masquerade plays out …
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Jo Alkemade
Jo has never been able to commit to one place longer than a handful of years. Jo currently divides her time between the Netherlands and the USA. She unites with …
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Joan Fallon
Joan Fallon was born in Scotland, but grew up in England with a love for literature and a longing to write. For many years the only writing she was able …
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Joy McCalister
Joy has spent time in several countries. She and her husband of 26 years, Cliff, have two daughters by birth and one son by adoption. She’s a graduate of Goshen …
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Krisi Keley
Krisi Keley is a writer and artist with a degree in theology from DeSales University, who has also studied foreign and classical languages. In addition to Mareritt and Vingede, the …
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Leah Marie Dorion
Leah Marie Dorion is a direct descendant of Jean Baptist Dorion! She is an Indigenous (Metis) interdisciplinary artist raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is a self-taught visual artist …
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Lenora Rain-Lee Good
Lenora Rain-Lee Good is a native of the Pacific Northwest, born and raised in Portland, Oregon and now resides in the steppes, or high desert, of Washington State. She writes …
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Lethal Inheritance
When a scream in the night wakes Ariel, she discovers that demons from a hidden realm have kidnapped her mother. She sets off on a rescue mission, but to defeat …
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Lifting the Lid
With more twists and turns than an Escher-designed bobsleigh run, Lifting the Lid is a comic thriller about how a single, split-second decision can change someone’s life forever.
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Like the Moon
It isn’t often a book invites you to pull up a rocking chair on the front porch and sit a spell. From the first sentence, Lulu Quillen with her southern …
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Madame Dorion
Now with Illustrations Marie Dorion was an incredibly strong and brave woman who not only witnessed history and the opening of the Oregon Country to trappers and immigrants, but she …
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Madame Dorion
I literally could not put the book down once I had started reading it. I thought the author did a wonderful job of attempting to interpret and determine how the …
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Make a Writer Happy this Christmas
What a great gift! Buy a workshop, a set of workshops, or even an entire year of great learning experiences for your favorite writer. This is a one-time opportunity that …
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Mareritt
As beauty lies sleeping … Four pretty, partying high school seniors, four strange and startling accidents the police believe the girls have brought on themselves. Do demonic nightmares and fairy …
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Marjorie Rommel
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Marjorie Rommel, M.F.A.
Marjorie Rommel lives in Auburn, WA, where she cares for her husband, three cats, 847 birds, 54 squirrels, and a snarky brace of possums in her large back yard. She …
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Mary DeMauro, B.A.
With a degree in Fine Arts from George Mason University, Mary brings many talents to S & H Publishing. Since her arrival, our social media presence has expanded and acquired …
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Mary Lewis Deans Foote
Mary Lewis traveled the world from Hawaii to Bangkok, writing delightful and insightful stories of life as she saw it. Many of these stories were sent home to Nashville, North …
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Maureen Milliken
Maureen Milliken is the author of the Bernie O’Dea mystery series, COLD HARD NEWS, which was released by S&H Publishing in June 2015, and NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS, which …
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Michael Lahey
Michael Lahey was born in 1942, in Cleveland, Ohio. He visited Italy in the 1960s and fell in love with it so he moved there to teach English and learn …
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Michelle Markey Butler
Michelle Markey Butler is a Lecturer in the College of Information Studies and the Honors College at the University of Maryland College Park, where she teaches medieval literature and Tolkien. …
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Myri’s Hands
From childhood, Myri saw things other people didn’t see, like pulsating arcs of energy and spirits. Her dad had warned her. Best to keep such nonsense to herself. But in …
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No News is Bad News
A grisly discovery in the woods of Redimere, Maine, resurrects Police Chief Pete Novotny’s old case of a missing boy—just one of the ghosts that haunts the town in the …
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No News is Bad News
Newspaper reporter/editor Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea’s life has been chaotic since her move to Redimere, Maine. In Cold Hard News, which takes place several months before this book begins, Bernie and …
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No News is Bad News
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Not THAT Kind of Trailer
Before the advent of the ebook, a book trailer might have been the only way to take enough books along on your summer vacation. However, we now have all manner …
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O’Budlin Matricentricity
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On Writing
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Online Writer Workshops
Short & Helpful™ has Moved In order to better serve the different needs of our customers, Short & Helpful™ has moved to its own website at http://showws.com
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Other Anthologies
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Our Authors
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View: Grid Card Details The 45th Nail The 45th Nail Ian Lahey Michael Lahey Historical Fiction Political Fiction Dead Men Don’t Send Christmas Cards … Or Do They? A Christmas …
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Palette of Secrets
Nancy Miller, a well-known artist, is approaching the end of her life, and her past has come back to haunt her. If Nancy’s secret is revealed, it could be devastating…for …
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Full of legalese, but the bottom line is we take all reasonable measures to ensure the security of your data. This policy (the “Policy”) explains the privacy practices of S&H …
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Raising Timber
When lightning strikes Lainey Clayson, her young son Timber believes she has been granted super powers. She could certainly use some, especially when it comes to raising a child whose …
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Resources for Writers
Good writing is a craft … … a skill that even the most experienced writer continues to hone and develop. Looking for Professional Help? There is more to a good …
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Resources for Writers
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Reviews for Short & Helpful Online Writer Workshops
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Reviews From a Sneak Peek
We showed a sneak peek of the first workshop to a writers group with awesome results. Even after seeing the video, more than half of the attendees signed up! We …
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Richard Bunning
I have been writing speculative science fiction, and short mixed genre flash fiction recently, although I have done some adaptations of neoclassical plays in the past. All the rest is fairly …
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Rob Johnson
Rob Johnson lives in Greece with his wife, Penny. Like Trevor, the hero of Lifting the Lid, Rob owns an elderly VW Transporter camper van (currently off the road) and has …
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S&H International Anthologies
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S&H Publishing
High Quality Fiction for the Contemporary Woman Intelligent, curious, imaginative, and willing to learn and explore. Not defined by genre or age, she is practical one moment, dreaming the next, …
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Saints & Heathens
Saints and heathens might be flip sides of the same coin. Perhaps it depends on your perspective. Can you tell which is which? This collection of stories will make you …
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Scribe & Hortatory
January 28, 2017Connections, Publishing, WorkshopsTags: biker, motorcycles, writers Guess Who’s Writing Books? We were seated near a group of gray-beards in our local Ihop. Stray words spoken less than two …
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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
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Short & Happy (or not)
An International Anthology of 36 stories from 25 talented authors Short & Happy (or not) brings together authors from English-speaking countries around the globe and a sprinkling of others who …
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Short & Helpful™ has Moved
In order to better serve the different needs of our customers, Short & Helpful™ has moved to its own website at http://showws.com
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Small Publisher & Happy Authors
For those who are just discovering S&H Publishing, this is a little bit about us and what we do. S&H Publishing was formed with one goal in mind—providing quality books …
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Spies & Heroes
Seventeen original stories by English-speaking authors from various corners of the globe Some of the stories are potpourri, subtle clouds of poignant fragrances, while others are awash with the stench …
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Stalking Shadows
Trainee Warrior Ariel Malony hopes that the great library at Sheldra holds the key to rescuing her mother, but to get there she must negotiate a forest of evil spirits, …
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Start with a Dream
A book is far more than putting words on the page. Before you begin, you should have a realistic view of what lies ahead. The path to publication must be …
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Start with an outstanding book and push it to the next level
Because Writing is an Art, and Publishing is a Business. The book market of today is more alive than ever and brimming with exciting new books. Authors and publishers are …
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Submission Guidelines
S & H Publishing’s mission is to provide quality books to our readers, and to provide opportunities for new talented authors to stand out from the crowd. In order to …
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Tahlia Newland
Tahlia Newland, author of the multi-award-winning Diamond Peak Series, writes heart-warming and inspiring magical realism and contemporary fantasy. When not reading, writing, reviewing, or mentoring authors, you may find her …
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Terms of Use
A bit of a snooze, but the lawyer wrote it. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) constitute a legal agreement that applies to all users and uses of this Website (“Site”) …
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Terry Korth Fischer
Terry Korth Fischer conducted training workshops during her thirty year career as a Point-of-Sale Specialist for IBM and NCR before retiring from IT to write full time. She is an …
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The 10% Solution
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The 45th Nail
Dead Men Don’t Send Christmas Cards … Or Do They? A Christmas card from Italy arrived on Robert Svenson’s desk. There was no return address, but when Bob opened the …
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The Bad
It is the beginning of a new year and time to take another look at small publishers. This month we will discuss the BAD and leave the Ugly for the shortest …
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The Bone Yard
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The Friar Tobe Fairy Tale Files
Friar Tobe, an ex-novitiate turned private investigator, works to solve modern mysteries where the clues may lie deep within the darkness of ancient fairy tales. Sometimes it takes a leap …
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The Good
This is the time of year for happiness and good cheer, so today will only cover THE GOOD, leaving THE BAD and THE UGLY for another day. A Good Small …
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The Kalandia Series
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The Last Abbot of Linn Duachaill
The Norsemen came to trade silver for timber. The Abbot has his eyes on a greater prize… This tale of unlikely allies and strange betrayals will keep you reading long …
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The Storyboard
Where do we find the building blocks for a trailer? Think about your goal. Think about your message. Think about your intended audience. The limits are set by your imagination. …
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The Ugly
The Ugly Publisher not only treats authors badly, but does so with malice aforethought. The Granddaddy of ugly publishers is Author Solutions. Our August post Beware the Wolf in Sheep’s …
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Traditional Publishers: Who are They, and Why are the Gates Closed?
Traditional Publishers are considered the Gold Standard, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for any author. And they are usually just as elusive as the legendary …
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Vingede
A swan song cry no one has yet heard… A boy who speaks mysterious, rhyming riddles… a mute girl who can only communicate through art and has an odd collecting …
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Welcome to the New and Improved S&H Publishing Website
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Where to Look for Answers
Before you commit your novel to a publisher, do your homework. Make sure you are a good fit. Remember, there is no one-size-fits-all. How do you do this? Where do …
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Who We Are
Dixiane Hallaj, Ph.D. Acquisitions Editor When Dixiane’s doctoral dissertation was described as a page-turner, she turned her talents to writing fiction. Impatient with the trade publishing process, she founded S …
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Workshops
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You Can’t Shatter Me
The magical realism style provides a touch of fantasy in an otherwise very real story that offers heart-warming solutions to bullying.
