Joelle Habbaki’s standalone romantic suspense was recognized among the Top 3 titles in the Romance category at the inaugural CANREADS Book Awards, celebrated at Storys Building in downtown Toronto.
THE BOOKS
Five years after Shattered first appeared, Shattered and Surrender are returning in newly revised editions shaped by everything their author has learned since, including an original song created for the story.
When Resilient Heart Press was established as the publishing home of Love Lies, bringing Shattered and Surrender under the same imprint felt less like adding two titles to a catalogue and more like bringing the books that started everything home.
How Love Lies led Joelle Habbaki to create Resilient Heart Press. First as a publishing imprint, and eventually as a statement about creative independence, technology and who gets to decide how a story is made.
BEHIND THE STORIES
At Resilient Heart Press, the manuscript is only the beginning of how a story meets the world. Through design, moving image, original music and digital storytelling, each book is given a creative life beyond the page.
In contemporary romance, a place may already exist on a map. Making readers believe in it on the page depends on the research, observation, and creative decisions that transform location into story.
THE PUBLISHING WORLD
Publishing a book once meant entering an established system. Increasingly, authors can choose which parts of that system to enter, which to build for themselves, and which decisions they are unwilling to surrender.
What happens after the manuscript is finished, and before a book is ready to find its readers. Inside the editorial, creative, technical and commercial work behind a published book.