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Below is a pencil sketch that Rochelle Wisoff-Fields did of me at one of Ozarks Writers League's meetings last November. At that meeting I was talking about how the publishing industry is again in the pioneer stages. I said I feel like I'm sitting on a wagon heading west and I'm not sure where we're going, but I know the trip is exciting. High Hill is also excited about Rochelle and her talents because we're doing a collection of her short stories soon titled This, That, and Sometimes the Other. The book will showcase more of Rochelle's sketches.
Dusty
Richards' first book in his The Lost Book Series will be launched on September 3, 2011. The Bounty Man and Doe is part of High
Hill's new Cactus Country Book Club division. Watch for The Cactus Country Anthology Volume I, due out on September 3, 2011. Both
books will soon be listed on Amazon for early orders.
Dare to Dream
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We want to make your dreams come true.
Click on the bookstore link at the top right hand corner and see just what High Hill Press has been busy doing. As of November 2010, not yet three full years after we opened our doors, we have published 49 books. From group anthologies, memoirs, short story collections, novels, children's picture books and how-to books, we've been privileged to find authors who write with passion and have a story to tell.
If you'd like us to take a look at your manuscript write to us at HighHillPress@aol.com
High Hill Press was established in the winter of 2008. It was simply created to offer writers a small niche between the huge New York publishing houses, and the often high-priced print on demands. We are not a self-publisher or a vanity press. We are simply a small press. Please note when submitting to us that we turn down nearly 75% of the books we see. The biggest reason is that the work needs editing, or that the writer simply does not know the craft. Just having a good story is not enough.
Another reason you might get a rejection from High Hill, or any publisher, comes down to marketing. If you're not willing to get out there and push your book, if you can't do book signings, or don't have the time to do talks or events where other authors are invited, then you might not be ready to publish.
I tell people at our marketing meetings that we're back to the days of Jacqueline Susann. You have to purchase your own books, keep them in the trunk of your car, and hit the road. If you don't know the story about Ms. Susann and her runaway hit, Valley of the Dolls, you should look it up. In a biography written about Jacqueline Susann by Barbara Seaman is this quote: Jackie and her husband bought truckloads of her books from the stores which why knew were surveyed for the best-seller lists so as to accelerate demand for the book." Hey, I say...if it works go for it. And apparently it worked for Jacqueline Susann. Not one literary critic in the country wrote anything nice about Valley of the Dolls, yet it made the New York Bestseller List and became one of the most popular books ever.
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hope you are like the editors at High Hill Press. We love to read. We read morning, noon, and night. We read to our children and our
grandchildren and the children of friends. Reading has created presidents, kings and queens, and the cultures of the world. Check out our
bookstore, or your local independent bookstore, or your neighborhood library. Read.
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This picture might just go on the cover of the paranormal anthology we have scheduled for publication sometime during 2012. If you have a fiction, or non-fiction story with a paranormal angle, query us at HighHillPress@aol.com