Writing your first novel?

Posted byjacquehillman0511Posted inauthors, fiction, publishing

What an exhilarating experience creating those characters who live and breathe on your pages! Who knows what he or she will do next! And then, you get to send them down another street, another journey that may lead to mystery, danger — or love! They live on your pages in your book to find their destiny.

Perhaps you’re writing historical fiction so you’ve done much research about the time period of your book down to the fashion of the times and the foods served at the dinner table. You may have explored the life of an American hero. Perhaps you’ve written about wars and pandemics. We’ll help you factcheck your historic references and design a cover that depicts the time period in which your characters lived their adventures.

Or perhaps your adventurer is on a spaceship traveling to a galaxy far, far away. Do you need an illustrator to depict those strange creatures found at the edge of the universe? We can help you with those one-eyed purple people eaters.

And there’s more! Perhaps there are dragons among us still. The mythology of dragons ruling the earth dates to ancient Chinese lore and comes to life in the book, The Dragon Mother and the Azure Dragon Rising, by David Hansford of Jacksonville, Fla.

Captain of the Tides Gunner Morgan, co-authored by Charles D. Morgan and Jacque Hillman, has received all five-star reviews. Kirkus Reviews says: “an impeccably researched and engaging tale of an authentic war hero.”
Tilted by Nancy Hall of Trenton, Tenn. has an opening that you won’t forget: “When I decided to murder George, it was near the spring equinox, which was perfect; equinox means equal. It was time to set things right.” The book received five-star reviews and was chosen by one judge as a second runner-up in Best New Voice in Fiction in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.
David Hansford is a renowned artist who used his talent to illustrate his book, The Dragon Mother and the Azure Dragon Rising. The book is a fantasy about dragons and their presence ruling the earth from ancient days until today.

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Jacque Hillman is the senior editor and CEO of HillHelen Group Publishers, where her role is editing, interviewing, ghostwriting and designing for print, broadcast and online. She also creates marketing strategies for clients nationwide. Jacque is the owner/designer of Reconfigured Art Jewelry, profiled in PBS “Tennessee Crossroads.” Hillman is vice president of Arizona Professional Writers, a member of the Historical Novel Society, National Federation of Press Women and Phoenix Business and Professional Women. She is a Delta Leadership Institute Executive Academy alumnus, class of 2010-2011, selected by then-Governor Phil Bredesen for a year's study of influential economic factors in the Delta. Jacque is a past state president for Business and Professional Women of Tennessee and now serves as 2026 vice president of BPW/TN. She is co-founder of the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail promoting women's history, a NFPW national award-winning website. She was chosen for the 2014 Sterling Award: 20 Most Influential Women in West Tennessee. Hillman now lives in Apache Junction, Arizona and is president of Mesa Art League in Mesa, AZ. HillHelen Group LLC is registered in Tennessee and Arizona.

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