About Us

Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. is an independent publishing company founded in 1996 to acquire and publish exciting and meaningful adult nonfiction, fiction, poetry, plays, as well as children's books and YA titles, audio books, and journals. Our adult nonfiction titles have ranged from an in-depth exploration of friendship (Friendshifts®) to a "how to" guide with a unique approach to finding a date or a mate (125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life) as well as business books exploring time management (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium), business protocol (Business Protocol), and nonfiction or business writing (Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing). We are expanding to add memoir to our nonfiction categories.

Our fiction titles include suspense thrillers (Untimely Death, Just Your Everyday People) as well as sci-fi mysteries (Rex, Cybersona). We also publish poetry (Jugglers and Tides) and children's books (The Cantaloupe Cat); a collection of one-act plays will soon be added to our published titles (In the Great Together).

We are proud that books published by Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. have been reviewed or featured in prestigious trade and popular journals, such as Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, as well as newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, Investor's Business Daily, and the Washington Post, in magazines, such as Time, Self, Redbook, Woman's World, Men's Health, and Cosmopolitan, and in online publications, such as Fortune.com.

Our authors have been interviewed on major national TV, cable, and radio shows as well as regional and local programs including Oprah®, The Today Show, The View, Sunday Morning, NHK (Japan), Good Day, Philadelphia, Good Day, New York, ABC radio, National Public Radio, BBC radio (UK), among other shows.

Many of our titles have been sold to foreign publishers and book clubs with translations in more than a dozen languages including Spanish, French, Russian, Dutch, simple and complex Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Indonesian, with other languages in preparation.

Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. is a member of several publishing associations including the AAP (Association of American Publishers), PMA (Publishers Marketing Association), PPA (Publishers Publicity Association), WNBA (Women's National Book Association), the Small Press Center, NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association), and NEBA (New England Booksellers Association). Our founder, Jan Yager, Ph.D., has been on the SIP (Smaller and Independent Publisher) Committee of the AAP, helping to plan an annual educational conference held the day after the annual meeting for the AAP, and offered to smaller and independent publishers, since the committee was started in 1999. Jan is also a member of the Women's Media Group, NYWIFT (New York Women in Film and Television), and the New York City chapter of Women's National Book Association (WNBA).

Our titles are distributed to bookstores through numerous major wholesalers including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Brodart, Follett, Midwest Library Service, and others. If you are a bookstore, please contact your regular wholesaler to order our titles. Or, if you prefer to order directly through our website.

If you are a librarian, you may order our titles from your regular wholesaler.

For general public ordering, visit your favorite local or online bookstore or through this website.

For media inquiries, and to request a review copy of a particular title, by contacting our publicity department: publicist@hannacroixcreekbooks.com

For film, reprint, other subsidiary, or foreign rights, go to the Film Rights part of this website or write to filmrights@hannacroixcreekbooks.com

All others who wish to do business with our company, such as special sales, please hannacroix@aol.com for further information.

Our team

Jan Yager, Ph.D., founder of Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., has had her books published by major houses since her first nonfiction book, The Vegetable Passion, based on years of original research including traveling to India, Germany, and England, was released by Scribner's when Jan was just twenty-six. Since then, she has been published by other major houses including Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, Facts on File, Inc., Prentice-Hall, and Wiley. Jan worked in publishing in her early twenties-first at Macmillan Publishing Company as an editorial assistant and then as an assistant editor followed by a year at Grove Press doing everything from subsidiary and foreign rights, publicity, acquisitions, and permissions-and always wanted to return to working at a publishing company in addition to her career as a researcher, book author and freelance writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher at the college level. To make that dream come true, in 1996 she founded Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. Jan has a Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center, an M.A. in criminal justice from Goddard College Graduate Progam. She did graduate work in art therapy at Hahnemann Medical College and also took courses in publishing at New York University. Jan and has a B.A. in fine arts from Hofstra University where she was Art Student of the Year as well as on Dean's List. In addition to acquiring books for Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., Jan is the International Film, Subsidiary, and Foreign Rights Director. Publicity is another one of the many jobs that Jan performs for her independent press although she prefers to also outsource publicity tasks as often as possible.

Fred Yager, Jan's husband, in addition to writing or co-authoring several of the novels published by Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., helps with writing and editing the press releases as well as overall strategy and planning. Fred's background including 13 years as a reporter and managing editor of APTV at the Associated Press (where he was awarded the prestigious Writer of the Year award) followed by two years as a fulltime screenwriter; a year as the editor of 7 o'clock newscast at Fox TV in New York City was his next position. Over the 14 years that followed, he worked at Merrill Lynch, the first 7 in media relations and the next 7 as head of Merrill Lynch Television, which he founded. Fred majored in psychology in college, a perspective that helps him to co-write suspense thrillers, like Untimely Death and Just Your Everyday People, and to write the sci-fi thriller Rex and his latest sci-fi technothriller, Cybersona. Fred's also co-author of two career books, Career Opportunities in the Publishing Industry and Career Opportunities in Film Industry, published by Facts on File, Inc. Fred is founder of a communications company, World News and Information Network, Inc.

Gladys Rose is a retired schoolteacher who helps out with publicity as well as other tasks, such as doing mailings to bookstores or libraries, and other administrative work as well as occasionally assisting at various book publishing trade shows such as the London Book Fair or BookExpo.

Peggy Stautberg is our excellent proofreader who goes over our book projects to check spelling, grammar, and consistency issues, as well as catching typos, after a book's been written, rewritten, copyedited, typeset, and designed. Peggy is based in Texas; proofreading, and transmitting the proofread version, is done electronically.

We work with foreign rights agents throughout the world with whom we sell our titles internationally. In those territories where we do not have foreign rights agents, we deal directly with foreign publishers and their staffs. Jan communicates with our agents mainly by e-mail, occasionally by phone, as well as trying to meet in person at least once a year at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October in Germany, the London Book Fair in London in March, or BookExpo in the United States in late May or early June.

To find out more about our authors and illustrators, go to: Meet the Authors, Illustrators, and Narrators.