For Booksellers, Librarians &
Special Orders

For Booksellers

We welcome hearing from you and thank you in advance for having an interest in reading, recommending, and offering our titles for sale to your local or online customers.

You may purchase our titles at a discount through your regular wholesaler channels such as Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Brodart, or Follett. You may also order books at a discount by phone from Book Clearing House 1-800-431-1579 (1-914-835-0015),35-0398), or by e-mail their website www.bookch.com. To maximize our effectiveness in acquiring and publishing our titles, if possible we prefer bookstores to work with wholesalers or Book Clearing House to obtain our titles. However, if you prefer to establish an account with us and order directly through this website, send an e-mail to sales@hannacroixcreekbooks.com to set up an account and to get a discount schedule.

Adding your store to our Ordering Books page

We would be happy to consider adding your local or online store to Ordering Books page which is for sales to the general public. Please send information about your store, as well as any links that we need to facilitate listing your store, and we will gladly consider your request.

Resources for Booksellers

We have reading group guides for several of our titles available for any reading groups that meet at your store.

You have permission to download, print out, and distribute these reading group guides to your customers as long as there are no changes made in the content of these guides.

Click on the link below to go obtain the reading group guide for these titles:

Fiction
Untimely Death
(Also available at www.readinggroupguides.com)

Nonfiction
Friendshifts®
If you have an interest in a reading group guide for a particular fiction or nonfiction title that we publish, please let us know. We will see if we can accommodate you by developing a reading group guide for that time.

Scheduling Book Events
We welcome hearing from you if you would like to request one of our authors for a book event at your store. You may contact our author directly, if a contact web site or e-mail is listed at our Meet Our Authors and Illustrators page, or contact our publicity department and we forward to our author or illustrator your interest in a possible book event.

Advance reading copies
Please let us know if you would like to be considered for receiving advance reading copies of any of our forthcoming titles. We welcome getting feedback from booksellers and, with your permission of course, being able to quote any advance blurbs or endorsements right on the final book or in marketing materials. Send us an e-mail letting us know that: publicity@hannacroixcreekbooks.com.

Mailing list
You may also want to sign up for our mailing list for announcements and special orders. Click here to subscribe.

News @ Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.
We invite you to stop back periodically to our website and click on the News @ Hannacroix Creek Books button on the home page. We will be updating that information every couple of months with news about our titles, authors, or illustrators that you, your staff, and your customers might find of interest.

Timely events for promoting our titles
Here are some annual events, organized by month, that might provide a tie in to our titles. The date for the event is listed on the left and the Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. title that might be a book tie-in to that event is on the right*.

January
1 New Year's Day (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium)

1-31 Getting Organized Month (sponsored by NAPO, National Association of Professional Organizers) (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium by Jan Yager)

1-31 International Creativity Month, started by Randall Munson, President, Creatively Speaking (365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity by Janet Luongo)

February
14 Valentine's Day (125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life)

20-27 Eating Disorders Awareness Week [The Binge (novel); Time to Lose (nonfiction]

March
8 International Working Women's Day, started in New York, New York in 1857 and celebrated internationally (Who's That Sitting at My Desk?)

2nd Tuesday Annually, Organize your Home Office Day, founded by organizer Lisa Kanarek (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium by Jan Yager; Making Your Office Work for You by Jan Yager, 2nd edition)

April
1-30 National Poetry Month (Jugglers and Tides; The Healing Power of Creative Mourning)

1-30 International Legacy Month (Road Signs on Life's Journey)

May
1 week beginning the Sunday after Mother's Day National New Friends, Old Friends Week founded in 1997 by friendship expert Jan Yager (Friendshifts:® The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives by Jan Yager)

June
1-30 Graduation (Road Signs on Life's Journey; Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing; Business Protocol)

July
1-31 Cell Phone Courtesy Month founded by etiquette expert Jacqueline Whitmore (Business Protocol by Jan Yager)

August
1st Monday National Friendship Day (Friendshifts:®)

15-31 Beginning college or graduate school (Road Signs on Life's Journey)

September
1st Monday Labor Day (Who's That Sitting at My Desk?)

October
1st week Get Organized Week, annually (1st full week in October); sponsored by NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium)

1-31 Eat Better, Eat Together Month (sponsored by the Nutrition Education Network of Washington State) [The Binge (novel); Time to Lose (nonfiction]; Creative Time Management for the New Millennium]

November
18-24, annual National Children's Book Week

Sponsored by the Children's Book Council annually (Rex, Cybersona, The Cantaloupe Cat, Dina the Deaf Dinosaur, Road Signs on Life's Journey)

December
1-31 Holiday celebrations (Business Protocol)

For Librarians

Dear Librarian,

We care about libraries and having our titles available for borrowing in as many libraries as possible. Let us know if there is anything we can do to facilitate that.

In terms of ordering, our titles are available through your regular wholesale channels, such as Brodart, Midwest Library Service, Follett, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and other companies. You can order directly by phone from Book Clearing House 1-800-431-1579 (1-914-835-0015), by fax (914-835-0398), or by e-mail through their website www.bookch.com. Another option is to order directly through this website by clicking on here: Ordering Books.

Resources for Librarians and Library Patrons
We have reading group guides for several of our titles available for any reading groups that meet at your store.

You have permission to download, print out, and distribute these reading group guides to your customers as long as there are no changes made in the content of these guides.

Click on the link below to go obtain the reading group guide for these titles:

Fiction
Untimely Death
(Also available at www.readinggroupguides.com)

Nonfiction
Friendshifts®
If you have an interest in a reading group guide for a particular fiction or nonfiction title that we publish, please let us know. We will see if we can accommodate you by developing a reading group guide for that time.

Scheduling Book Events
We welcome hearing from you if you would like to request one of our authors for a book event at your library. You may contact our author directly, if a contact web site or e-mail is listed at our Meet the Authors, Illustrators, and Narrators page, or contact our publicity department and we forward to our author or illustrator your interest in a possible library book event.

Upcoming media appearances or author speaking engagements, feature articles or reviews, or local coverage
If you wish to be notified when one of our authors has a major media appearance as well as any major feature articles or reviews, just let us know that you'd like to be added to our e-mail notification list for librarians, booksellers, and others in the book business. (We do not share your e-mail address.)

Possible events for organizing library events or displays
Here is a copy of the list that is available at the bookseller page as well including a selection of annual events, organized by month, that might provide a tie in to one or more of our titles. The date or date range for the event is listed on the left and the Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. title that might be a book tie-in to that event is on the right*.

January
1 New Year's Day (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium)

1-31 Getting Organized Month (sponsored by NAPO, National Association of Professional Organizers) (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium by Jan Yager)

1-31 International Creativity Month, started by Randall Munson, President, Creatively Speaking (365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity by Janet Luongo)

February
14 Valentine's Day (125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life)

20-27 Eating Disorders Awareness Week [The Binge (novel); Time to Lose (nonfiction]

March
8 International Working Women's Day, started in New York, New York in 1857 and celebrated internationally (Who's That Sitting at My Desk?)

2nd Tuesday Annually, Organize your Home Office Day, founded by organizer Lisa Kanarek (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium by Jan Yager; Making Your Office Work for You by Jan Yager, 2nd edition)

April
1-30 National Poetry Month (Jugglers and Tides; The Healing Power of Creative Mourning)

1-30 International Legacy Month (Road Signs on Life's Journey)

May
1 week beginning the Sunday after Mother's Day National New Friends, Old Friends Week founded in 1997 by friendship expert Jan Yager (Friendshifts:® The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives by Jan Yager)

June
1-30 Graduation (Road Signs on Life's Journey; Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing; Business Protocol)

July
1-31 Cell Phone Courtesy Month founded by etiquette expert Jacqueline Whitmore (Business Protocol by Jan Yager)

August
1st Monday National Friendship Day (Friendshifts:®)

15-31 Beginning college or graduate school (Road Signs on Life's Journey)

September
1st Monday Labor Day (Who's That Sitting at My Desk?)

October
1st week Get Organized Week, annually (1st full week in October); sponsored by NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) (Creative Time Management for the New Millennium)

1-31 Eat Better, Eat Together Month (sponsored by the Nutrition Education Network of Washington State) [The Binge (novel); Time to Lose (nonfiction]; Creative Time Management for the New Millennium]

November
18-24annual
National Children's Book Week
Sponsored by the Children's Book Council annually (Rex, Cybersona, The Cantaloupe Cat, Dina the Deaf Dinosaur, Road Signs on Life's Journey)

December
1-31 Holiday celebrations (Business Protocol)

*In addition to widely-known information and common knowledge, Jan Yager consulted the excellent comprehensive reference, Chase's Calendar of Events, updated and published annually, for additional information on pertinent celebration. For additional events, consult the most up-to-date Chase's, published by McGraw-Hill book companies.

Advance reading copies
Please let us know if you would like to be considered for receiving advance reading copies of any of our forthcoming titles. We welcome getting feedback from librarians and, with your permission of course, being able to quote any advance blurbs or endorsements right on the final book or in marketing materials. Send us an e-mail letting us know that: publicity@hannacroixcreekbooks.com

Mailing list
You may also want to sign up for our mailing list for announcements and special orders.Click here to subscribe .

News @ Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.
We invite you to stop back periodically to our website and click on the News @ Hannacroix Creek Books button on the home page. We will be updating that information every couple of months with news about our titles, authors, or illustrators that you, your library, and your patrons might find of interest.

For Wholesalers

Our company distributes our titles throughout the United States through a variety of wholesalers including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Brodart, Follett, and others.

If you are a wholesaler and you do not have an account with Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., and would like to open one, please contact our sales department to discuss this possibility:

E-mail: sales@hannacroixcreekbooks.com
Phone: 203-321-8674
Fax: 203-968-0193