The Heartbeat of Quiet Streets, Quick Reads from Southern Award-Winning Authors nets #1 bestseller in 2 Amazon Categories
April 2024. JMerrillPress, LLC publisher based in Chapin, SC, proudly announces its collection of award-winning Southern Authors achieved #1 bestselling status in two Amazon categories, including Sibling Relationships and Survival Biographies, with its release of The Heartbeat of Quiet Streets. This is the second #1 bestseller from this small woman-owned press in two years.
The small town themes in The Heartbeat of Quiet Streets stories can mean love, happiness, impatience, fear, or end of life, and a quiet street can imply peace or danger, depending on perspective. The Heartbeat means preparing for a Christmas party, a missing car, a car crash, death of a good friend, misconceptions by a 5-year-old, a sad pregnant widow, trouble with a red Cadillac, a sad lonely salesman, the end of a long relationship, the inner workings of a restaurant, the weak-kneed feeling of being pulled over on the road, the devil trying to take over a small town...in some way it blankets all our stories. This collection of compelling short stories, poetry, and dystopian fiction from South Carolina's published award winning, and up-and-coming new authors.
The Heartbeat of Quiet Streets is available on Amazon
Reconciliation book launch nets #1 bestseller in 7 Amazon categories.
Reconciliation: Atone the Devil in Buried Sunshine made it to the bestseller category in seven Amazon categories, including #1 in American History Romance and #1 in 20th Century Depression History.
Says Kasie Whitener, PhD, host of Write On SC, writes, “Reconciliation is a beautiful time capsule rendering the nostalgia and disappointment that are the unique dichotomy of family. Hartley’s story delivers in the complexity of sisterhood, the excitement of financial windfall, the anxiety of lingering distrust, and the scabby wounds of lost childhood. In fascinating detail, Reconciliation takes us on a journey of rivals, pride, jealousy, and love as Adele establishes her new life and attempts to weave the tatters of her old one in to it.”
Reconciliation is available on Amazon and in the JMP shop.
JMerrillPress, L.L.C. launches Reconciliation: Atone the Devil in Buried Sunshine.
January 12, 2022. Adele Dawson, the courageous young woman in Redemption (JMP 2019), returns stronger and more determined to make a safe home for her sisters in the coal mining town of Bramwell, WV.
Released today, Reconciliation: Atone the Devil in Buried Sunshine by Carolyn Palmer Hartley, brings the history of pre-World War II’s demand for bituminous coal to life, against the backdrop of her loathsome stepfather who will do anything to reclaim his daughters. Even if it means sabotaging the family coal mine Adele inherited. In the long-awaited sequel to 4.5 star- Redemption, Adele’s sisters form a new bond of friendship as they discover family secrets of crime and murder in a sealed vault. The more she learns about her beloved mother, the more she discovers her enemies have concealed themselves into the coal mining business. Adele must now rise against the enemies who destroyed her mother and now threaten her sisters.
“I’m fascinated by little known American history,” Hartley says. “Creating believable female trailblazers, not only inspires me, but these women remind me that their ruffled paths a century ago are not much different than today. It’s how these women thrived that offers such encouragement.”
Reconciliation is available here at the JMerrillPress store, or on Amazon. Reach Carolyn Hartley at CarolynHartleyBooks.com.
January 7, 2021 WriteOnSC, hosted by Kasie Whitener featured author Carolyn Hartley’ and her book, Redemption: One Woman’s Dream to Overcome Oppression, Find Love, Family and Forgiveness, (JMerrillPress, 2019) as its first video author interview on January 2, 2021. https://www.patreon.com/posts/featured-author-45721336. Kasie Whitener has a long history of selecting some of the best authors in SC for her show while also helping SC authors get their publications featured in the news. Ms Hartley says, “We covered a lot of ground in that interview, from my publishing experiences, JMP’s new publishing company, working with literary agents, and of course, research techniques for the forthcoming Redemption Sequel, expected to be released in mid-2021.
Kasie and Rex Hurst also host the craft of writing courses Saturday mornings at makethepoint.com. Redemption is available here in JMP’s shop, on Amazon and wherever online books are sold. For more information, contact Palmer@JMerrillPress.com
