The HillHelen Group LLC

12/19/2025

HillHelen Group will have a table at the Scottsdale Book Festival on Jan. 24 at the Scottsdale Civic Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with our authors' books for sale. We are partnering with Arizona Professional Writers.

Join us in Scottsdale Arizona for the 2026 Book Festival a free family friendly celebration of authors vendors kids activities and literacy.

12/19/2025

HillHelen Group welcomes our newest client, Loralee Stickel-Harris, of Mesa, AZ! We are publishing her husband's novel. Harry Harris was quite an interesting man! Here's an image from his military veterans' bio.

12/17/2025

Congratulations to our author, Dr. Frank McMeen, on his five-star review from Readers Favorites! Five-star review from Readers Favorite by Asher Ayed. "Frank McMeen’s "Your Life Is a Story: God Loves Every Page of Your Life" is a totally refreshing reconsideration of what Christian faith looks like when filtered through lived experience instead of institutional habit. McMeen writes as a person who has spent decades listening, watching, and revising his assumptions, and that long view is what gives the book, and everything he says in it, authority. . . . What distinguishes the book is its sustained attention to people who feel unseen, sidelined, or worn down by religious systems, and McMeen’s insistence that faith must be recognizable through conduct. The timeliness of this book is incredible. Very highly recommended."

12/15/2025

We love all our books, or we wouldn't publish them. And we are thrilled with our new author, Barbara Fowler, of Jackson, Tenn., who has written such a beautiful memoir, "Telling the Bees," about love, grief, tragedy and joy. The book is coming soon!

11/24/2025

Congratulations to our children's book author Wendy Googe on being our bestselling author in the last quarter for HillHelen Group Publishers with her delightful fairy book, "Raspberry Maude!"

11/13/2025

Exciting news today! Author Bill Haltom's book, "The Other Fellow May Be Right: The Civility of Howard Baker," won top five international finalist in the American Book Fest 2025 Best Book Awards in the Biography category! The book was also chosen by UT Knoxville for their Baker Scholars in the Howard H. Baker J. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. Tomorrow, the Baker School and the University of Tennessee are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Senator Howard H. Baker Jr.’s birth with the Baker School Gala! Congratulations to Bill Haltom!

10/20/2025

Congratulations to our author, Andy Vistrand, whose book, "Rescued," about his rescue dog Dozer, has been nominated for the American Book Fest Best Book Award in Nonfiction/Inspirational and for Best Nonfiction Book Cover! Wanda Stanfill of Jackson, TN painted the cover of "Rescued." We will find out in November who the finalists are! "Rescued" has spent eighteen months as a bestseller for the HillHelen Group and won the Military Writers Society of America national bronze medal.

09/18/2025

Congratulations to our authors, Bill Dance and Taylor Wilson, whose book, "Fish Tales: 75 Years of Casting Storylines," is nominated for the 2025 American Book Fest Best Book Award in the Sports category, and also for Best Book Cover! Bill sells his book only on his website, billdanceoutdoors.com. Kudos to Kim Stewart, HHG assistant editor, for the excellent book cover!

09/16/2025

Congratulations to author Bill Haltom, whose book, "The Other Fellow May Be Right: The Civility of Howard Baker," is nominated for the 2025 American Book Fest Best Book Award in History/United States category! Bill Haltom is the author of nine books, including "Why Can't Mother Vote?" which won an American Book Fest 2024 Legacy Award, and he has been a newspaper and magazine humor columnist for over 25 years. He has served as chair of the editorial boards for four magazines, including the ABA Journal, the flagship publication of the American Bar Association. Bill lives and writes in Memphis and Monteagle, Tennessee. www.billhaltom.com

08/24/2025

Congratulations to our authors with books coming out in the next several months! Our Jackson, Tenn. authors: Dr. Frank McMeen, "Your Life is a Story: God Loves Every Page of Your Life;" Dr. Charles Cox, "The Harvey Scouts;" Barbara Fowler, "Telling the Bees;" Wanda Stanfill, "Mercy of Life;" Wendy Googe, "Christmas Fairies;" Jocelyn Wurzburg, "Travel Tales;" Ginger Terry, "Maeleigh the Mermaid." Our Arizona authors: Stacey Worrell, Phoenix, "Parks and Rec." Our Texas authors: Joanne Callahan, Garland, Texas, "Matricide: The Denigration of the American Women's Suffrage Movement." Janice Wilbourn, Atlanta, GA. and Carolyn Wilbourn, L.A. "Wilbourns Legacy." "Sterling Awards 2010-2026 Legacy Book" is in progress for Jackson Area Business and Professional Women! Other books in progress are for authors in Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix, AZ.; Nashville, Tenn. We love what we do! Jacque Hillman, Senior Editor/CEO.

08/24/2025

Ok writers, authors, editors -- here's your word for the day: straits, straights. There is a difference. Strait: 1. a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water. "The Strait of Gibraltar." 2. used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty. "The economy is in dire straits." Straight: noun 1. a part of something that is not curved or bent, especially a section of a racetrack. "He pulled away in the straight to win by half a second." If a hurricane hits an island, the people are not in bad straights. Just wanted you to know that. The more new writers I sample in various genres, the more irritated I get over poor word usage. PLEASE hire a good editor. Yes, you can tell a marvelous story, and that's what you are -- storytellers -- but PLEASE hire an editor to help you tell it right. We all enjoy reading good stories.

08/11/2025

Many thanks to our author, Andy Vistrand, for entrusting us with his national bronze medal winning book, "Rescued," about his dog Dozer, who "rescued" Andy as he adjusted to civilian life after military duty as a Marine helicopter gunner in the Middle East. "Rescued" has been nominated for another national award. More information to come soon!