Visit Our Store
Welcome to our store! We hope you’ll enjoy looking through it as we share some of our favorite products, books, and services.
Please note that we are not endorsing anything per se because you, the consumer, have to make your own determinations about any products or services. But we thought you might enjoy finding out what has worked for us.
Also, please scroll to the end where you will find a special offer to be considered to become part of our store!
Hannacroix Creek Books Custom Imprinted Items and More
Custom imprinted items are available at the Hannacroix Creek Books store at Zazzle. Here is a sample. More will be added soon!
Decluttering
How did I manage to go from 10 filing cabinets, including 8 that were four drawers high, to just four? A key way was to scan important papers or manuscripts I needed to keep by using an Epson ES 580W scanner. (There are many excellent scanners available to you. That’s just the one I purchased and that’s been working well for me.)
I scanned into four locations to make sure I would have proper “back up” for those key papers: to an external hard drive, to my computer, to a flash drive, and to an account in the Cloud.
ES-580w
Printing
If you need to do a lot of printing, especially color printing, a color laser printer might be something you want in your home or outside office. Here’s an updated version of the one I used for many years:
But recently I purchased an ink jet color printer because I wanted to force myself to reduce the amount of printing I do. This new printer is just right for my modified printing needs. (I’m trying to do more electronically to cut down on the paper I use and the need to file papers!)
XP-7100
Labeler
I’ve been labeling things since elementary school! I like using a P-Touch Nrother labeler. I’ve been using my P-Touch for decades! My machine is many years old but still works beautifully. Here’s a link to a similar new labeler:
Dr. Jenny Woo’s card decks
Need help with skills building, mental health tools, or courses? That’s what Dr. Jenny Woo, mentioned in the first Blog at this site about W-O-M marketing entitled “The Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing—and 20 Ways to Achieve It!,” offers at her website. Here’s a link to one of the twelve card decks Dr. Woo has created:
Favorite Books
Here are just a few of my favorite books:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. Published by Beacon Press.
Psychiatrist Frankl survived four concentration camps although his close family members including his pregnant wife did not. This inspirational book reminds us that suffering and tragedy are rarely avoided in life; it is how we deal with it that matters.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Published by Pocket Books, 1998.
It’s hard to believe this book was written and published more than 100 years ago. What makes Carnegie so masterful is his use of anecdotes and examples to illustrate his points. His nuggets of wisdom have stood the test of test. For example, want to be considered a good conversationalist? Listen to others!
Atomic Habits by James Clear. Published by Avery.
The concept is simple but so powerful: change your bad habits by making “tiny changes” as Clear puts it. He begins his bestselling business book sharing how he put this strategy to work for himself with amazing results.
FYI: It’s flattering that Atomic Habits is sometimes bundled with my own bestselling book, How to Finish Everything You Start
Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark. Published by Simon & Schuster.
I could have chosen so many of the wonderful novels I’ve read over the years including novels published by my own company. But I’m choosing to highlight this novel by the late prolific Mary Higgins Clark because it started me on my own fiction writing career.
I was reading this novel on the subway and it was so engrossing that I almost missed my stop! I said to myself, “I want to write something that engages readers like that.” At that point in my career, I had only published nonfiction. It took a few years to make the transition to novelist, but I did it! And, according to reviewers, my husband Fred and I did write a winner of a novel, our first co-authored thriller, Untimely Death.
Select Books About Writing and Getting Published
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
These are the words shared by the author’s father, also a writer, that are at the core of this memorable book: “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
Some of the chapters in this classic book on better nonfiction writing include: Clutter, Style, The Audience, and so much more. Initially written in 1976.
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Published by Pearson.
What began as t he handouts from a Cornell University English professor’s class back in 1918, his former student, E.B. White, turned his notes into this classic little gem of a book on how to write short, simple sentences as well as the basics of grammar.
Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing by Jan Yager, Ph.D.
An outgrowth of the courses on writing that the author taught as a visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Penn State, Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing, previously called How to Write Like a Professional when it was published by Arco, covers everything from overcoming writer’s block to the key elements of effective nonfiction writing. Each chapter ends with additional references and useful exercises to reinforce what you’ve learned
How to Self-Publish Your Book by Jan Yager, Ph.D.
“One should usually proceed with caution and a dose of skepticism before accepting authors’ assertions that their book offers readers everything. But that is clearly not the case here. Publishing expert, prolific author (e.g., Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing; Career Opportunities in the Publishing World), and Hannacroix Creek Books founder Yager has produced this compendium that covers in detail every major step for would-be writers to follow on their path to publishing . . . Yager provides helpful tips for the novice to avoid being taken advantage of by the many publishing services out there and gives what she calls the ‘normal range’ of fees to expect . . . With self-publishing an increasingly common option for writers today, it would be hard to imagine a more useful and easy-to-follow guide than this comprehensive volume. Highly recommended to everyone hoping to self-publish a book that won’t look self-published.” — Edward B. Cone, New York ― Library Journal (starred review)
How to Promote Your Book by Jan Yager, Ph.D.
Whether your book is being released through a commercial publisher or an academic press, or you are self-publishing it, as the author, you can and should play a crucial role in getting your title seen, talked about, and sold. How to Promote Your Book provides you with the understanding of book promotion today to do just that. Whether you plan to DIY or hire a book marketing company or book publicist to help you, understanding all the options for promotion available to you as an author will be useful to you.
“Writing a great book is the easy part. Getting people to buy the book is wicked hard. Jan’s book shows you what promotion to do so you increase the possibility that your book becomes a bestseller.”―Jeffrey Fox, bestselling author, How to Become a Rainmaker
Writing for Bliss” A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Store and Transforming Your Life by Diana Raab, Ph.D.
“Writing for Bliss is about the profound ways in which we may be transformed in and through the act of writing. I am grateful to Diana Raab for sharing it, and I trust that you will feel the same as you read on. May you savor the journey.”
–from the Foreword by Mark Freeman, PhD
Publishing 101 by Jane Friedman. Published by MBA for Writers.
A publishing veteran shares her decades of first-hand knowledge from both sides of the desk to help first-time authors to navigate the challenges of getting from a blank page to a published book.
Looking Backward, Going Forward: Reflections on a Writer’s Life by Jan Yager, Ph.D.
Featured Books, Products, and Services*
Checkmate:
Tips & Lessons to Help You Make the Right Moves to Achieve Happiness
Published by New Degree Press
Available in print and e-book formats.
Davis’ inspiring story of how he left a successful career at a major company in their finance department to become a fulltime academic at a university in the Midwest will reinforce how making that career move, including becoming a writer, can help them on their own road to happiness. In this easy-to-read book you’ll also find useful finance tips from a business maven as well as reminders about the importance of relationships especially family.
For more on Greg Davis, go to his author website: https://www.davischeckmate.com/
Picture Your Book
(or product or service) here!
There will be an annotation and/or description here. For an additional fee, you can also have your website listed with a link
Use our Contact Us page or send an e-mail to hannacroix@aol.com for consideration and for more information.
*Those included in this section of Visit Our Store paid a fee to Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. to be in our store. However, we are trying hard to feature books, productive, or services related to writing and getting published or promoted that we think our store visitors will appreciate discovering. Please, however, apply your own due diligence in purchasing or committing to anything that you discover in this or any other sections of this Store. Individuals and your temperaments, taste, and/or needs are too unique to make a global endorsement for anything or anyone.
The Basics of Selling Foreign Rights
Presented by Dr. Jan Yager
Foreign rights director, agent, publisher and author https://www.hannacroixcreekbooks.com
https://www.drjanyager.com
hannacroix@aol.com
30 slides – PowerPoint or PDF version $29.95 US
Please pay via PayPal to hannacroix@aol.com
This Power Point presentation offers an illustrated overview about the basics to selling foreign rights.
Delivery of the PowerPoint or PDF: Once PayPal alerts us about your payment, we will send you the PowerPoint as either PowerPoint slides or converted to a PDF file. Please share your preference when you email about your interest in this PowerPoint presentation.
(You may also purchase the companion book, FOREIGN RIGHTS AND WRONGS, through amazon.com. Retail list price for the e-book version is $24.95)
This Power Point presentation offers an illustrated overview about the basics to selling foreign rights.
Delivery of the PowerPoint or PDF: Once PayPal alerts us about your payment, we will send you the PowerPoint as either PowerPoint slides or converted to a PDF file. Please share your preference when you email about your interest in this PowerPoint presentation.
(You may also purchase the companion book, FOREIGN RIGHTS AND WRONGS, through amazon.com. Retail list price for the e-book version is $24.95)
About your presenter
Jan Yager, Ph.D. has been selling foreign rights since her mid-twenties. Directly to publishers, or through her network of co-agents, she has sold foreign rights into 34 languages for her own titles as well as for other authors. She is the author of more than 45 books including Foreign Rights and Wrongs (Hannacroix Creek Books, 2018), How to Self-Publish Your Book (June, 2019, Square One Publishers), and When Friendship Hurts (Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2002, 2023), which she sold more than 32 times with translations in 29 languages.
Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. Booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please check out our five catalogues of available titles or services that are featured on the company’s Home Page.
More products to be added soon!
Please sign up for the mailing list so we can let you know when the store has been stocked with customized mugs, pillows, and other products.
Disclaimer: Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. receives a commission for any purchases made through products that you click on in this Store.
Please note: At the end of the year, we plan to donate 5% of our company’s earnings to two of our favorite charities:
T2T – Tunnell to Towers (t2t.org) , which prov ides mortgage-free homes to those who have lost a loved one who is a first responder (police, fire) or in the military as well as their newer initiative to provide housing and training to homeless veterans
Save the Children (savethechildren.org)– An international organization which provides food and basic necessities to at risk children around the world.
Would you like to get your book, product, course, or service featured in our store and/or with a link to its purchase?
If yes, please contact Jan at hannacroix@aol.com to discuss the details including any associated fees. Please note: We have the right to turn down adding any and all products or services to this Store.