Jenny Hale is a USA Today, Amazon, and international bestselling author of over 15 romantic fiction titles. Her books have sold worldwide and have been adapted for television, appearing on The Hallmark Channel as part of their famous Christmas lineup. Coming Home for Christmas was published in 2013 and the movie adaptation for Hallmark starred Danica McKellar from The Wonder Years. Her book Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses was adapted into a Hallmark Channel movie in 2019 starring Jill Wagner and Matthew Davis (who you might know as Warner from Legally Blonde).

She’s been included in Oprah Magazine’s “19 Dreamy Summer Romances to Whisk You Away” and in Southern Living’s list of “30 Christmas Novels to Start Reading Now.” She is also founder and director of Harpeth Road Press. In between having her nose in a book and writing her next novel, she’s running around Nashville taking photos and getting into mischief with her hubby, two kids, and their labradoodle. Her first Harpeth Road release is available worldwide in eBook, paperback and audiobook.

In this episode, we talk about:

•  Publishing ten books without an agent

• Butterfly Sisters hit #1 in American Contemporary Fiction on Amazon US on preorder

•  How her first novel, Coming Home for Christmas got picked up for Hallmark

•  How she was going to stop submitting her book Coming Home for Christmas before getting a contract

•  How her book took off and was bought out by the third largest publisher in the US

•  Why she is never married to her manuscript and how she feels about changes to an adapted screenplay

•  The Hallmark movie adaptation of her book Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Wishes

•  The breakdown of her writing process and writing 2-3 books a year

•  Tips for writers to write including writing at a coffee shop and 2000 words a day

•  What is a publishing imprint and why and how she created her own

• What she is looking for in submissions

Guest:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennyhaleauthor/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jhaleauthor/

Website: https://www.itsjennyhale.com/

Host:

Instagram: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneMiller

Twitter: @MentorsontheMic @MichelleSimoneM

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Website: www.michellesimonemiller.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/24mmichelle

Resources:

The Writer’s Market