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01/31/2025

01/30/2025

So excited for Matthew R. Corr!! His debut novel, Land on Me, is now an audiobook, narrated by the author himself!! It’s fabulous!!!

ITS HERE! I spent a total of 24 hours in the studio recording the narration for my debut novel. I’m NERVOUS but excited about people hearing my narration. I hope my book baby is just as affective in audio form as it is in text form! Regardless, it was still a dream come true. Through and RBMedia, Land On Me is available everywhere you get audiobooks!
And the sequel’s audiobook comes out in March! So get caught up!

01/25/2025

is excited to be working with again on this fourth book with us, FALLEN ANGELS.

Keith retired from pastoral ministry in 2016. Currently he serves as a hospital chaplain in Wenatchee Washington. From 1998-2006 he served on the staff of the First Baptist Church of Portland, Oregon. One of his responsibilities was serving as staff liaison to a feeding ministry the church did twice a week. As staff liaison to this ministry, he would often help serve and then visit with the people while they ate. His approach was not to raise any spiritual issues himself, as to not appear like some kind of “spiritual confession” was a cost of the meal. However, many shared their stories with him, and he listened. The stories he wrote for Fallen Angels are fictional, but they are based on the stories of real people that he met while listening to these people. By sharing these short stories, he hopes to help readers see homeless people as people, people who are in some respect just like them.

Keith is the author of Searching for Eden, 2nd Edition (Quill Hawk Publishing, 2021), The Sons and Daughters of Toussaint (Quill Hawk Publishing, 2023), and The Bridles of Armageddon, 2nd Edition (Quill Hawk Publishing, 2023), as well as a short story in the anthology, Distant Flickers: Stories of Identity and Loss (Paul Stream Press, 2022). Keith lives in East Wenatchee, Washington with his wife Cathy. He enjoys hiking in the Cascade Mountains, rooting for the Seattle Mariners, and playing with his grandchildren.

Read more in the comments about his upcoming book, Fallen Angels!

01/22/2025

Congratulations to Jackie Kraft on the publication of her second book with Quill Hawk Publishing!

Jackie and QHP will be at the Conscious Life Expo in Los Angeles this February. We hope to see you there!

Do you believe in UFOs? We do! And so does Jackie, because some of her best friends are ETs!

About the book:

All my life, I have had strange experiences. Sometimes they scare me. Sometimes they entertain me. Most of the time they baffle me.

These encounters take the form of ghosts, extraterrestrials (ETs), or unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Other contacts are precognition, extrasensory perception (ESP), remote viewing, remote influencing, or clairaudience. I've known odd smells of roses or pine needles, random sounds of tinkling bells, remembrances of past lives, and 3-D dreams.

I've encountered angels, Men-in-Black, Shadow People, Owl Ladies, and eight-foot-tall Lion People. And if these experiences weren't strange enough, I've had trips to the moon, received scary warnings of death, and witnessed synchronicities. I've been made invisible to watch historical events as they are happening.

These odd scenes often come after surprise ET visits and the various achievement tests they give to me. Why me? Someone or something knows. There are clues but no answers. The ETs have been kind, good teachers and helpful in many ways. I have to be careful of random thoughts and what I wish for. It may become a gift from the ET and fall undeservedly in my lap.

Over the years, I've found some of my best friends are ETs. Here's my memoir.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTMZ11MR

01/13/2025

Do you believe we are not alone?

Coming soon from Jackie H. Kraft, author of “Under a Sunflower Moon: Cherokee Stories and Poems,” comes a story that will have some of you believers wanting to join us at the Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo this February!

Some of My Best Friends are ETs:

All my life I have had strange experiences. Sometimes, they scare me. Sometimes they entertain me. Most of the time, they baffle me.

These encounters take the form of ghosts, extraterrestrials (ETs), or unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Other contacts are precognition, extrasensory pereception (ESP), remote viewing, remote influencing, or clairaudience, I’ve known odd smells of roses or pine needles, random sounds of tinkling bells, remembrances of past lives, and 3-D dreams.

I've encountered angels, Men-in-Black, Shadow People, Owl Ladies, and eight-foot-tall Lion People. And if these experiences weren't strange enough, l've had trips to the moon, received scary warnings of death, and witnessed synchronicities. I’ve been made invisible to watch historical events as they are happening.

These odd scenes often come after surprise ET visits and the various achievement tests they give me. Why me? Someone or something knows. There are clues, but no answers. The ETs have been kind, good teachers and helpful in many ways. I have to be careful of random thoughts, and what I wish for. It might become a gift from the ET and fall undeservedly in my lap.

Over the years, I've found some of my best friends are ETs. Here's my memoir.

01/13/2025

Calling all self-published authors who published in 2022-2024!

The deadline to enter the Best Indie Choice writing contest is January 31, 2025.

Judges like Massiel Valenzuela-Castaneda are excited to read your indie-published work! Get your work in front of our fabulous judges!

Enter today! https://quillhawkpublishing.com/products/quill-hawk-publishing-best-book-award-entry

Massiel Valenzuela-Castaneda is an author, producer, book coach, and host of the How to Write a Book Podcast. With a passion for helping writers overcome creative obstacles, Massiel combines her expertise in technical writing, self-publishing, and coaching to empower authors at all stages of their journey. She is the author of multiple books, including "How to Dictate Your Book: Without an Outline, Without Fear, and Without Writer's Block" (2025) and "Jeweler and I," and brings an enthusiastic authentic approach to writing and personal development. When she's not writing or coaching, Massiel enjoys spending time with her dogs, sipping coffee, and exploring new storytelling ideas.

01/13/2025

Looking for an author visit for Spring 2025? Check out my website at www.eileenhobbsauthor.com

01/09/2025

Calling all Vietnamese-speaking audiobook narrators who can read English!

We’ve reopened our audition for voice actors who can narrate an autobiographical fiction novel written by Amy M. Le - Historical & Women’s Fiction Writer titled SNOW IN SEATTLE.

This is the second book in the Snow trilogy. To audition, please log into the ACX account and search for the title. A script is provided. Please upload a polished, edited, mp3 of the audition.

https://www.acx.com/titleview/A24E8AO64M4TCM

We will select a VO actor by the end of January (or earlier) if we find the right narrator so please do not delay if you’re interested in auditioning.

The finished hour is around 10.5-11 hours at a rate of $200/PFH.

The successful WFH candidate can speak and read both English and Vietnamese, have a feminine and soothing voice, can meet tight deadlines, and be able to edit and produce the audio per ACX and Findaway Voices requirements.

We are needing to finish the narration and production by end of March 2025 for a release in Black April or AAPI Heritage Month.

https://www.acx.com/titleview/A24E8AO64M4TCM

01/06/2025

** New Blog **

How often do writers hear "show, don't tell?" What does that even mean?

In our latest blog, Amy M. Le - Historical & Women’s Fiction Writer, explains what Show, Don't Tell means and how to convey emotions, experiences, and settings through vivid imagery and actions rather than explicit statements.

Read here:

https://quillhawkpublishing.com/blogs/news/using-imagery-to-show-not-tell

12/31/2024

Welcome to the family, Jeanean Doherty!!

A passionate reader since discovering Wonder books, Jeanean dreamed of writing a novel “someday.” Throughout her extensive career as a nurse educator, she created professional training manuals and wrote a healthcare column for the local newspaper. As an enthusiastic traveler, she penned colorful journals that her friends and family enjoyed. However, she never managed to fulfill her dream of writing a novel. Recently retired, she discovered writers’ groups and attended conferences. She was encouraged by the recognition she received in every competition she entered and saw her work published, confirming that she is no longer a “wannabe” but is, in fact, an author. Ultimately, she fulfilled her dream and completed a thoroughly researched historical novel, Mixed Blood, which is set to publish is 2025.

About Mixed Blood:

The spirited daughter of a Scottish trader and a Cherokee woman, Hester’s life spanned the 1700s on the American frontier. She lived events that irrevocably changed the Cherokee Nation. To survive, her people had to assimilate, eventually adapting to the European patriarchal lifestyle rather than the matriarchal communal living of her childhood.

As an elderly woman nearing the end of her life, she realizes that her beloved grandchildren are unaware of their rich Cherokee heritage. She vows to instill pride in their legacy through storytelling. The novel unfolds across two timelines as she reflects on her family’s adaptation to a changing world and recalls historical events from a unique perspective—that of a Native woman.

12/21/2024

QHP is pleased to extend a warm welcome to Liz Stevens, a freelance writer based in Florida, to the family!

Liz lives in a three-generational family home and has always enjoyed being creative. She spreads her wings through her Toastmasters affiliation, writing for their publication and painting with her granddaughter. She produced a play about a Christmas story entitled “A Star Shone,” for which she wrote both the play and the music. Liz spends her time creatively and loves taking readers on a wild ride and landing them in an unexpected situation.

Here’s a blurb about her book, Extenuating Circumstances:

Maggie finds herself on a highway after her car breaks down. A group of not-so-friendly friends rescue her, but their joyride quickly turns into a wild ride they never imagined. Four travelers become two as Maggie and her friend, Gail, find themselves in the middle of a crime spree, including human trafficking, hit and run, and kidnapping. Is that body in the back seat still alive? They refuse to find out because that involves touching the stiff. The ultimate decision for the two friends is whether to drop the body off at the cemetery or the hospital. Extenuating circumstances can lead to unwanted and hilarious results as they contend with a body wrapped in a death blanket, a police chase, the NOTELL OFF, and the two faces of Eunice.