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We're pleased to announce that High Hill Press has recently hired two new editors Betty Craker Henderson is now handling our children's and young adult division, Sky High Tales. Read more about Betty here. 

High Hill has also hired Delois McGrew to handle mystery and thriller novels as well as short story collections. Read more about Delois here.  

Please, when sending us a query, send it to the appropriate editor. Betty Henderson for children's and young adult and Delois McGrew for mysteries, thrillers or short story collections.

Each editors contact information is on the link behind their name. All other queries go to HighHillPress@aol.com

• Novels, any genre
• Memoirs and Biographies
• Literary Fiction
• How-to books
• Business Books
• Short Story Collections
• Cook Books
• Group Anthologies
• Children's books
• Young adult

High Hill Press is looking for good books with great writing and an author who knows the value of marketing.

Here's how we operate.

You query us. We respond. It might take 2-3 weeks for us to request either a partial or a full manuscript, but we will at least let you know that we received your query.

Once we've looked at your entire manuscript, we'll give you a call and talk about what is important to each of us.

Once we have accepted your book, and both parties have signed a contract, we will begin the galley process. Galleys will be printed and sent to you to edit. We trust our editors and when they make a suggestion it is always for the good of the book. We also do as many galleys as it takes to make your book the best it can be so sometimes this can take months.

During this process we will have already discussed cover ideas and our design team will be working to create an attractive cover. Our authors are involved in this process, but ultimately the final decision on cover will be made by High Hill.

The timeline for all of this varies. It will depend on the publishing calendar of High Hill and the availability of our editors and graphic artists. Sometimes it's a tedious process, other times it goes quickly. You will have access both through e-mail and on the telephone with the editor that is working on your project at all times. We pride ourselves on making sure that the author is aware of everything as it happens.

Advance reading copies are available if the timeline allows it. Most review publications need at least three months before the publication of your book to consider it for a review. Once the book is published it is put into distribution, listed on Amazon, sent to Barnes & Noble and Borders for possible listing, and sent to the newspaper in your area to request a review. By the time your book is published, you, the author, should have a marketing plan in place and be ready for book signings and readings and any other marketing that you've lined up.

High Hill is a small press with the capabilities to keep your book in print forever. We want you to sell. That's how we make our money. But this is also why we turn a lot of great books down. If the author isn't willing to work to promote their work, then we don't see the benefits of having their book published by our press. So please, if there are things that will keep you from working to sell your book, don't query.