Who is Harpeth Road?
We are a creative digital publisher, publishing our novels worldwide in eBook, audiobook, and paperback. Our agents also pitch to foreign traditional and digital markets, and we manage film and TV rights. In less than three years, we’ve reached astronomical heights:
Harpeth Road was named one of the “Eight Best Book Publishers” in Nashville by Reedsy.com, a leading global publishing service platform for authors. In 2024, Reedsy published their worldwide list of “46 Top Women’s Fiction Book Publishers in 2024” and we made the cut. Our very first title, The Memory Keeper, was a number one Clean and Wholesome romance on Amazon U.S.
We signed a TV film and shopping agreement for our second title, The Holiday Plan by debut author Emma Lynden with the famed EveryWhere Studios for this novel. EveryWhere’s team has produced features based on bestselling novels Out of My Mind for Disney+, and their recent hit projects include Hallmark Channel’s Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater, A Godwink Christmas, and ABC’s Same Time Next Christmas. Other Highlights include Lifetime Channel’s My Sweet Audrina (A novel by V.C. Andrews, hailed by Simon and Schuster as “one of the most popular authors of all time”), and Universal’s Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls, based on the novel by bestselling author R.L. Stine.
Lindsay Gibson's novel The Christmas Promise was a number one bestseller in Christmas for the debut fiction author. It was also a number one new release in both eBook (Christmas category) and paperback (Contemporary Christian Romance category). The eBook went on to hit number one bestseller in Christmas (Kindle) and top 25 in Christmas Books. The paperback was a number three bestseller in Christmas (Books), number 18 in Holiday Romance, and number 19 in Contemporary Christian Romance.
We’ve hit bestseller lists with backlist titles, debut titles, and our current releases. The Magic of Sea Glass was a simultaneous number one new release in both eBook and paperback, a career first for HR founder and USA Today bestselling author, Jenny Hale. It was a top 100 bestseller in the US as a backlist title a year later.
Harpeth Road has gone on to sell over 112,000 units of our books in all formats, hitting many digital bestseller lists, our Kindle Unlimited pages-read is over thirty-two million, we’ve pitched many of our novels for film and TV opportunities, and our agents have sold foreign rights translations to ten countries.
Our books have been on SouthernLiving.com in their features "11 Small Town Romance Books That'll Make You Feel Right At Home" and "Christmas Novels to Start Reading Now," as well as Bookbub.com's "15 Charming Small-Town Romances." Our novel The Christmas Letters was selected as an Editor's Pick for BookLife by Publisher's Weekly for outstanding quality, The Magic of Sea Glass was chosen by Kirkus editors to be featured in their June 2023 print edition, and The Holiday Plan was in First for Women’s print edition as part of the feature “7 Books We’re Loving Now” and Woman’s World’s “12 Sweet and Swoon-Worthy Books to Read if You Love Hallmark Movies.”
As we’ve grown, we partnered with Dreamscape Select, the personalized audiobook distribution arm of the award-winning independent publisher of audiobooks, Dreamscape Media. Their audio titles have earned a dozen Audie Award nominations, more than fifty Audiofile Earphones Awards, and their partnerships span a wide array of well-known publishers.
Our novel The Christmas Letters is our first trade title, distributed to U.S. brick and mortar bookstores nationwide with The Magic of Sea Glass to follow.
The German translation of Butterfly Sisters reached #4 in Kindle Store and hit the #1 spot in in Contemporary Romance, Small Town & Rural Fiction, Contemporary categories in Germany and hit the BILD Bestseller-Liste, Germany’s biggest newspaper, another first for Jenny’s career.
Not bad for our first three years. And we're just getting started.
What makes Harpeth Road Press different from other publishers?
Harpeth Road is owned by founder Jenny Hale who is an author herself. Jenny Hale is a USA Today, Amazon, and international bestselling author of romantic contemporary fiction. Her books have sold over a million copies worldwide, have been translated into multiple languages, and adapted for television. Her novels Coming Home for Christmas and Movie Guide Epiphany Award winner Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses are Hallmark Channel original movies. The Beach House, released in 2021 sailed to number three on the Amazon Kindle Chart and it hit number one in the categories Contemporary Romance, Women’s Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Romance. She was included in Oprah Magazine’s “19 Dreamy Summer Romances to Whisk You Away” and Southern Living’s “30 Christmas Novels to Start Reading Now,” “Beach Reads Perfect for Summer 2020,” as well as “11 Small Town Romance Books That’ll Make You Feel Right At Home.” While she follows her passion for marketing and creative direction by publishing full-time with Harpeth Road, in the evenings, Jenny is at work on her next novel, delighted to be bringing even more heartwarming stories to her readers.
With a founder who is a successful author, herself, we have first-hand experience in the best ways to support our authors. We provide lessons on every single step of the process, including best practices for how to build author platforms and create the most successful writing out there. We’re aware that writing is a learning process, and we roll up our sleeves and jump in to every project with both feet.
