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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Advisors and Readers
We are happy to have many people whose opinions we value. They read our manuscripts when needed, give advice when asked (and sometimes when not asked), and generally support our …
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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 …
> All Roads Lead to the Same Place–and It Isn’t Rome
Assignment Dhaka
Margaret Riccardelli
Margaret Riccardelli enjoyed an international airline career and traveled to more than 50 countries before joining the American Foreign Service, but she wasn’t as worldly wise as she thought she …
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Aunt Nellie B
Dixiane Hallaj
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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Author Reading of The 45th Nail
Ian Lahey, who co-authored The 45th Nail with his father, Michael Lahey, lives and writes in Italy. His appreciation of the culture and the traditions of Italy shine through the …
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Bad News Travels Fast
Maureen Milliken
When Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Lydia Manzo becomes lost in the woods of Maine, then is found dead, it sets off a chain of events that upsets the fragile peace of …
> Bernie O’Dea Mysteries > Bad News Travels Fast
Beware the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes
Publishers often separate their books into different imprints. Amazon itself has over a dozen imprints, each with a specialized focus. My previous post listed many of the imprints that are …
> Beware the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes
Bobbi Carducci
Bobbi Carducci is the author of the memoir, Confessions of an Imperfect Caregiver, the true story of the seven years she spent as a caregiver for her mentally and physically …
> Bobbi Carducci
Born a Refugee
Dixiane Hallaj
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 …
> The Kalandia Series > Born a Refugee
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.
> Born a Refugee
Breakfast in Palestine
Dixiane Hallaj
Breakfast in Palestine recounts Dixiane’s introduction to her new Palestinian family, and how she coped with a new language, new culture, new social demands, and her love affair with the …
> Breakfast in Palestine
Caregiver: You Are Not Alone
Bobbi Carducci
Caregiver: You Are Not Alone is an anthology of caregiver stories representing varying ages, genders, and family dynamics—all doing the hardest job they ever had to do. Each story is …
> Caregiver: You Are Not Alone
Checkpoint Kalandia
Dixiane Hallaj
The story of one man’s journey to the depths of human despondency.
> The Kalandia Series > Checkpoint Kalandia
Cold Hard News
Maureen Milliken
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 …
> Cold Hard News
Colleen Grimes
Ms. Grimes writes children’s books and historical mysteries, as well as human interest short stories. She lives on a small horse farm in western Loudoun County, Virginia with her husband, …
> Colleen Grimes
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. …
> Commercial Publishing: How Brief the Joy!
Contact Us
Please direct general inquiries to books@sandhpublishing.com or PO Box 456, Purcellville, VA 20134
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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 …
> Dames Quixote – Four Women Tilting at Windmills
Dames Quixote – Piggy
Jane Roop
“There are those who believe life ends with menopause. Then, there are Miss Piggy and the Dames Quixote who show us otherwise.”
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Dames Quixote – Queen
Jane Roop
“All the characters are strong and believable. The dialogue is funny and natural…highly engaging.” G.B.Knetl
> Dames Quixote – Four Women Tilting at Windmills > Dames Quixote – Queen
Dames Quixote – Warrior
Jane Roop
“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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Dames Quixote: Queen and Warrior (Set)
Jane Roop
“Smart, funny, and involved in their community…I wish these women were my friends, family, and neighbors.” Barbara Seiders, author
> Dames Quixote – Four Women Tilting at Windmills > Dames Quixote: Queen and Warrior (Set)
Dixiane Hallaj
Dixiane Hallaj lives in the small town of Purcellville, Virginia, with her cat named Dog. After a long career as an educator and a business woman, she earned her Ph.D. …
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Don Roberts
Don Roberts began his formal education in a one-room country school and ended with a Ph.D. in History at the University of Pittsburgh. In between, he graduated from Slippery Rock …
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Echoes From the Hollow
Don Roberts
Growing up is never easy, not even in a small Pennsylvania town in the fifties. Harry Morgan has his faults, but he tries. Judgmental but often clueless, he resolutely makes …
> Echoes From the Hollow
From Contract to Store Shelves
It’s a dream come true – you have a contract with a Big Publisher! Hooray! Bring out the fireworks! Your friends are all excited. They ask when the book will be …
> From Contract to Store Shelves
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 book than a good story. …
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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 …
> Guess Who’s Writing Books?
History (and more)
S & H Publishing was formed with one goal in mind – providing quality books for our readers. We want to attract a following of devoted readers who depend on …
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How to Submit a Novel for Consideration
Note: S&H Books Is Not Accepting New Submissions Until Further Notice
> How to Submit a Novel for Consideration
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 …
> Interview with Lenora Rain-Lee Good
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 …
> Interview with Maureen Milliken
It’s Just Lola
Dixiane Hallaj
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 …
> It’s Just Lola
James Knights
James Knights is a retired FBI Special Agent. He received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. A native of …
> James Knights
Join Us Thursday’s 3-5pm (EST) on Facebook to “Ask the Editor” and “Ask the Publisher”
Can’t be there? No problem. Just post your question and check back after the Thursday afternoon session. We’ll answer all questions.
> Ribbons > Join Us Thursday’s 3-5pm (EST) on Facebook to “Ask the Editor” and “Ask the Publisher”
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 …
> Krisi Keley
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 …
> Leah Marie Dorion
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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Madame Dorion
Lenora Rain-Lee Good
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 …
> Madame Dorion
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 …
> Madame Dorion
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 …
> Make a Writer Happy this Christmas
Margaret Riccardelli
Margaret Riccardelli traveled to more than 50 countries. She enjoyed an international airline career in her early years. Later, she traveled with the American Foreign Service working at our embassies …
> Margaret Riccardelli
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 …
> Marjorie Rommel, M.F.A.
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 …
> Maureen Milliken
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 …
> Michael Lahey
Myri’s Hands
Jane Roop
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 …
> Myri’s Hands
No News is Bad News
Maureen Milliken
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 …
> Bernie O’Dea Mysteries > No News is Bad News
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 …
> No News is Bad News
No News is Bad News
I really like Bernie O’Dea. She’s owner/editor of a small town newspaper in fictional Redimere, Maine.She likes to walk at night, looking at “porch lights or lit windows blinking through …
> No News is Bad News
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 …
> Not THAT Kind of Trailer
Novel Class podcast features Gila Green
In Episode 3.07, Dave Pezza and guest host Daniel Ford (Black Coffee, Sid Sanford Lives!) discuss Gila Green’s Passport Control. They LOVED it! Listen to the entire podcast and hear …
> Novel Class podcast features Gila Green
Omaha to Ogallala
Terry Fischer
Returning to Dad’s home state on an idealistic seven-day trip dubbed The Wise Woman Summit, the Korth sisters trek across Nebraska with hopes of rekindling their childhood friendship. Independent, tenacious, …
> Omaha to Ogallala
Passport Control
Overflowing with drama, politics, personality, and angst, Gila Green’s Passport Control delivers on all these fronts. It’s 1992. When twenty year old Miriam learns that she is no longer welcome …
> Passport Control
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 …
> Resources for Writers
Resources You May Find Useful
(Click on book covers for more details) Self-Editing for Fiction Writers On Writing Get It Right The 10% Solution
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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 …
> Reviews From a Sneak Peek
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 …
> Richard Bunning
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, …
> Location Content > S&H Publishing
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 …
> S&H International Anthologies > Saints & Heathens
Scribe & Hortatory
January 1, 2019PublishingTags: Submissions Now Due for New Anthology: Strife & Harmony This book was published on 11/6/2019 Stories 2,500 – 8,000 words long are requested for a new anthology. …
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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, …
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Shipping Notice
Paperback orders in the U.S. and Canada incur a $3 per book shipping fee. Please inquire about international rates.
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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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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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Soldier Girl Blue
James Knights
Based on the remarkable true story of Sarah Emma Edmunds of New Brunswick, Canada, a little known Civil War heroine Author of the Benjamin’s Field Trilogy Forward by retired astronaut …
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Soldier Girl Blue Reviewed
If you’re a fan of Civil War fiction with drama, suspense, an engaging plot, and an interesting historical twist, Soldier Girl Blue by J. J. Knights is for you. Inspired …
> Soldier Girl Blue Reviewed
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 …
> S&H International Anthologies > Spies & Heroes
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 …
> Start with a Dream
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 …
> How to Submit a Novel for Consideration > Start with an outstanding book and push it to the next level
Stranglehold
Colleen Grimes
While the Nazis are being sentenced for war crimes in Nuremberg, someone is getting away with murder in New York City. Four prominent businessmen have been murdered—viciously strangled with their …
> Stranglehold
Strife & Harmony
Strife, doubt, & suspicion — heroic (and not-so-heroic) characters search for harmony
> S&H International Anthologies > Strife & Harmony
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 …
> How to Submit a Novel for Consideration > Submission Guidelines
Submissions Now Due for New Anthology: Strife & Harmony
This book was published on 11/6/2019 Stories 2,500 – 8,000 words long are requested for a new anthology. New authors are encouraged, as are manuscripts from writers from across the …
> Submissions Now Due for New Anthology: Strife & Harmony
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 is the author of short fiction, memoir, and mystery. Second oldest in a family that boasts nine children, she writes from life experiences, drawing often from her …
> Terry Korth Fischer
The 45th Nail
Michael Lahey & Ian Lahey
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 …
> The 45th Nail
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 …
> The Friar Tobe Fairy Tale Files
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. …
> The Storyboard
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 …
> Traditional Publishers: Who are They, and Why are the Gates Closed?
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 …
> Where to Look for Answers
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 …