Halo Publishing International

Halo Publishing International Since 2002, we have helped authors bring their books to market with clarity and confidence. If There's a Book in Your Head...It's Time to Get it in Your Hands.

Through a hybrid publishing approach, we offer tailored support, expert editorial services, distinctive design, and comprehensive marketing. Halo Publishing International is an independently owned publishing company that is dedicated to helping individual writers self-publish their books. More than a publishing company, Halo is a community that passionately believes in its authors and their messag

e. Since 2002, Halo has established itself as a leader in the self-publishing industry. We have helped countless authors realize their dreams while bringing the best of self-published books to a worldwide audience. Whether your book is science fiction, faith based, a children’s book, or a how-to manual, Halo is the publisher for you!

Let our December Best Sellers guide you toward a stronger, more spiritual 2026. Embark on a heartbreaking and deeply mov...
12/23/2025

Let our December Best Sellers guide you toward a stronger, more spiritual 2026.

Embark on a heartbreaking and deeply moving journey with Eugene Z. Bertrand’s "Resilience", or allow Alex O’Neal Heaton Jr. to take you on a soul-healing voyage through the skies with "Journey on Angel Wings".

Two powerful reads. One meaningful start to the new year.

Last call to check those Christmas lists!Our Best Sellers are definitely on Santa’s must-bring list this year.We’re alre...
12/23/2025

Last call to check those Christmas lists!
Our Best Sellers are definitely on Santa’s must-bring list this year.

We’re already taking these books home to our little ones, but what about you? Will you be gifting an anatomy adventure with Dr. Ryan’s "Your Amazing Heart!"? Or setting sail on Mog’s pirate adventure by Laura Mitchell? Perhaps you’ll choose a classic like Jenn S. Francisco’s "Loving Lola".

Whichever you pick, these stories make thoughtful, meaningful gifts that kids will treasure long after the holidays.

"Attn. all my western PA friends—I am about to give you a Christmas gift suggestion, and it’s a book! Rod Olson this pas...
12/22/2025

"Attn. all my western PA friends—I am about to give you a Christmas gift suggestion, and it’s a book!

Rod Olson this past summer had his second memoir published by Halo, and it is largely about what it was like to grow up in a small western PA coal mining town. It’s called “Little Brothers and Other Observations,” and it is full of recollections and stories that I really enjoyed and could relate to.

I finished it months ago but have gotten out of the habit of writing these. However, I found Rod’s writing about his roots and relatives both comforting and grounding. I no longer remember many specifics, but it did refresh a lot of great and sentimental memories of growing up in Black Lick, PA. I think of simple games we played in another era, one where all us kids walked or rode our bikes to the community park to play “tag” and “Release the Belgian.” A time where wiffle ball tournaments were held in my backyard. A time when I got to play fireman and ride in Rod’s pedal driven firetruck up and down Walnut Street while our moms sat and gabbed and drank a pot of brewed coffee together.

There’s lots in the book about the impact of family too-the wisdom of aunts and uncles and the faithful love of grandparents. And Rod’s writing is even stronger than in his first book!"

—Reviewer Dennis Piper about W. Rod Olson's "Little Brothers and Other Observations"

https://halopublishing.com/authors/w-rod-olson/

🎙NEW PODCAST EPISODE!🎙This year, authors and expats Lisa M. Umina and Kirsten Harty contributed to an anthology that bro...
12/19/2025

🎙NEW PODCAST EPISODE!🎙

This year, authors and expats Lisa M. Umina and Kirsten Harty contributed to an anthology that brought together women from around the world who share one thing in common: they left their homes, their countries, and the security those offered to embark on a new life journey in Mexico City, where they found the courage to start over. Along the way, they found each other.
Listen to these courageous women discuss life after the move and the powerful experience of capturing that transformation in a book that has earned praise, awards, and recognition.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2HArYncsVp1OmwD5ICe8Xf?si=s5UsaH8JR5C_Fhxm3Iac2w

By December 24, 1843, every copy of the book had already been sold. At the time, England was beginning to revive old Chr...
12/19/2025

By December 24, 1843, every copy of the book had already been sold. At the time, England was beginning to revive old Christmas traditions, while the holiday itself was evolving and incorporating new customs, many of them strikingly similar to the ones we celebrate today.

The book, originally titled "A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas", was published on December 19—on a day like today—of that same year. It was an instant success. In less than five days, the first edition had completely sold out.

Its author, Charles Dickens, was already well known for his novels, most of which had been published in installments, though that success had not necessarily translated into financial stability. Dickens was deeply concerned with social issues such as poverty and labor conditions, but publishing a pamphlet or sociopolitical essay on these topics would not have reached a wide audience.

Then came the realization: Victorian readers loved two things: novels and Christmas. And so what we now know as "A Christmas Carol" was born, written in just six weeks.

Whether or not we’ve read this short novel, we all know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. And even if we don’t know the story in detail, we live out many of the traditions that were first shaped by it. Once again, literature helps shape the world, and we get to experience its legacy firsthand.

Talking about migration is common. Migrating, by contrast, is extraordinary, necessary, and beneficial to all.What benef...
12/18/2025

Talking about migration is common. Migrating, by contrast, is extraordinary, necessary, and beneficial to all.

What benefits no one is the climate of hatred, violence, and resistance promoted by some governments, often disguised as patriotic rhetoric.

Equally harmful is the failure of those same states to manage a deeply human process—one they have themselves intensified by sustaining inhumane systems that prevent millions from living dignified lives in their own countries.

Opposing migration is one of the most misguided ways to deny history and civilization itself.

This International Migrants Day, listen.

Helping teens understand anger—and express it without harm—has never been more urgent.With decades of experience as an e...
12/17/2025

Helping teens understand anger—and express it without harm—has never been more urgent.

With decades of experience as an educator, counselor, mediator, and conflict-resolution specialist, Dave Wolffe returns with an updated second edition of "Peace: The Other Side of Anger", a practical and compassionate guide for supporting young people through anger in today’s complex world.

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at...
12/16/2025

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” ―Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen observed the intricate web of 18th-century society, the spiders at its center and the full spectrum of creatures caught within it: the plain, the intelligent, the willful, the timid. And she laughed. Not a simple laugh, but one layered with scorn and tenderness, absurdity and deep understanding, pain and joy.

For a woman at the end of the 18th century, there were few choices: to laugh quietly, or to live an “appropriate” life without asking questions. Austen chose the former. And then she chose to write.

We know little about her as a person. She was not widely famous in her lifetime, and only a small number of letters remain to hint at her character. What we can do is look for fragments of her in her work. She wrote six complete novels, began writing in her early twenties, and was not published until her late thirties.

She could have confined herself to etiquette, manners, sentimentality, romance. She could have followed literary trends and social expectations. Instead, Austen did something far more daring. Through irony, she asserted that if women’s external choices were limited—often reduced to the necessity of an advantageous marriage—their inner lives were anything but small. For her, the performance of social norms was both revealing and faintly ridiculous. And it was not only women who suffered under this.

In this sense, Austen’s literature is not one of overt resistance, though it is quietly revolutionary. She does not stand outside society to condemn it. She participates, observes, explores, abides by its rules, and even performs them while laughing, pitying, mocking, and understanding. In a society so confident in reason as the engine of progress, Austen shows us how profoundly unreasonable life can be.

Today marks 250 years since her birth.

Happy birthday, Jane.

🎙NEW PODCAST EPISODE!🎙Are you being seen? Are the efforts in your career being amplified to their fullest potential? Joi...
12/15/2025

🎙NEW PODCAST EPISODE!🎙

Are you being seen? Are the efforts in your career being amplified to their fullest potential? Join authors Janet Wise and Lisa M. Umina for a conversation about opportunity, the evolving work landscape, and the possibilities that visibility can unlock once you understand the core principles captured in Janet’s new book, “The Visibility Effect”.

This is an episode you won’t want to miss. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vXGKAxzScZiZVZYU7Lk0H?si=ZV3HZcXNQJqVZ_829n-MJw

"I found myself smiling at how warm and upbeat the writing feels. It has this easy flow that pulled me along like I was ...
12/12/2025

"I found myself smiling at how warm and upbeat the writing feels. It has this easy flow that pulled me along like I was tagging behind Gracie and Aero as they dashed from one idea to the next. The simple explanations of words like capital and invest made me feel like the book was giving kids a gentle pat on the back and saying you can learn this too..." Literary Titan Book Awards

Keep reading this five-star review for Rachel Gregory's "Gracie & Aero Wallet Business Venture": https://literarytitan.com/2025/12/11/gracie-aero-wallet-business-venture/

This International Mountain Day, let author Haydee inspire your climb. With faith in God and confidence in ourselves, ev...
12/11/2025

This International Mountain Day, let author Haydee inspire your climb. With faith in God and confidence in ourselves, every summit becomes possible.

Discover Haydee’s "On Top of the Mountain" here: https://holapublishing.com/autores/haydee/

Emily Dickinson did it first.Do you know how ChatGPT uses excessive, unnecessary em dashes for even the simplest ideas? ...
12/10/2025

Emily Dickinson did it first.

Do you know how ChatGPT uses excessive, unnecessary em dashes for even the simplest ideas? Well, Emily Dickinson did it first.
The difference is that her use of dashes was intentional and deeply human. They worked as cues for intonation, rhythm, and pauses, while also suggesting ambiguity, interruption, and even multiple layers of meaning.

Do you know how religious studies books capitalize almost everything, turning all common nouns into proper nouns? Well, Emily Dickinson did it first.
She used capitalization to evoke sacredness, much like religious texts, but her approach wasn’t religious or moralizing. She elevated abstract concepts into forces, crafting her own mythology of Death, Hope, Volcanoes, Decay.

Do you know how Walt Whitman inaugurated modern America with expansive, outward-reaching free verse? Well… Emily Dickinson did it first.
Okay, not this one—she and Whitman were contemporaries. But Dickinson built foundational poetry in a radically different way. Where Whitman expands outward into everything, Dickinson writes through compression: intellectual, contained, precise, as if every word cost effort as it left her pen.

Do you know how you argue with your editor about the most pointless synonym or the smallest comma? Well, Emily Dickinson did it first.
Except she lost those fights. In her lifetime, only a few of her poems were published, and they were completely altered, because she used meters and punctuation that weren’t popular. After her death, editors Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd heavily modified her poems and even erased her dedications. Much of her romantic poetry was originally written for Susan, her sister-in-law, and those editors deleted or reassigned it, shifting the meaning of major portions of her work.

Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson. Today, we still crave your quiet mythology of the world.

"Crumbling is not an instant's Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation's processes
Are organized Decays —

'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust —

Ruin is formal — Devil's work
Consecutive and slow —
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping — is Crashe's law —"

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Halo Publishing International is an independently owned publishing company that is dedicated to helping individual writers self-publish their stories. More than a publishing company, Halo is a community that passionately believes in its authors and their message. Since 2002, Halo Publishing has established itself as a leader in the self-publishing industry. We have helped countless authors realize their dreams while bringing the best of self-published books to a worldwide audience. Whether your book is science fiction, faith based, a children’s book, or a how-to manual, Halo is the publisher for you! If There's a Book in Your Head...It's Time to Get it in Your Hands.