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Stories the record
almost lost.

Heinze Quill Publishing is a small, fierce house for historical fiction and creative nonfiction — real stories of resilience, allyship, and the quiet triumph of light over darkness.

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Our lead title · Coming November 9, 2026

The Minister of Fashion

Wearing influence in a world of peril — the woman who dressed a doomed court. A Marie Antoinette story of style, survival, and the price of standing too close to power. Mark the date: November 9, 2026.

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Historical Fiction · Newest

The Secrets They Wrote

The women who kept the record — and the truths they hid inside it.

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Historical Fiction

Illuminating Darwin: Arabella's Light

Arabella steps out of the margins of a famous life and into her own.

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Historical Fiction

The Light Among Us

Elizabeth Carne of Cornwall — scientist, banker, and force of nature, restored.

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Why we exist

A house built on allyship

A key premise in our work is allyship — you'll find real stories of historical successes forged in partnership: between women, and across races. We publish the resilience the record tried to file away.

Resilience

Characters and real figures who endured, adapted, and refused to disappear from history.

Light over darkness

Even our hardest histories carry a thread of hope — we follow it and hand it to the reader.

The pursuit of truth

Meticulous research underpins every book, so the story you fall into is one you can trust.

Jill George, Ph.D.
Our author

Jill George, Ph.D.

Historian, novelist, and coach, Jill recovers the women history misplaced and turns deep archival research into fiction you can live inside. Her work anchors the Heinze Quill list.

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