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was established in 1998 to provide a strong voice for electronic
publishing. Once an authors' organization, EPICTM
has expanded to include hundreds of professionals from all facets of
the electronic publishing industry: authors, publishers, editors,
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between authors and publishers to further the industry.
Vanilla Heart Publishing, through
the VHP imprint, Evergreen Books, is issuing a call for nature writing by and
for children and teens. The works may address any aspect of nature from a
tiny meadow flower to a towering mountaintop and all the creatures that inhabit
the wild places in our world. From seashore to sandy desert, from a cool green
forest to the shimmering light through towering trees, our world is filled with
wild places and delights that children often see with a clear eye and open
heart, and those are the very things we want to publish.
Vanilla
Heart Publishing author Victoria Howard,
author ofThe House on the Shore and Three
Weeks Last Spring, and of the upcoming Ring
of Lies, entered the title voted in as the anthology title in a closed
poll, so the title is Passionate Hearts… thank you, Victoria!
What We’re Seeking:
Stories
from 1,000 words to 10,000 words (close is good) with significant romantic
elements. Prose only, please, no poetry for this one.
Include:
manuscript (of 1,000 to 10,000 words) with a synopsis (or blurb if piece is shorter than 3,000 words), an author bio including where to find you on the web, your full name/pen name, email addresses, and website
address, if any.
Submissions are open until
August 17, 2010 and the final decisions
will be made by August 30, 2010. Please send your submission to VHPRA2010@VanillaHeartBooksAndAuthors.com
and include Passionate Hearts Anthology
in the subject line.
Please note, we are not
accepting multiple submissions for this anthology. Each author selected for the
anthology will be contracted specifically for the anthology.
Each author with a
submission selected for inclusion in the print and electronic editions of Passionate Hearts will receive a small
payment (via Paypal only), a contributor copy of the print edition upon
publication, mention in all marketing and promotion, and author bio and
information on the Vanilla Heart Publishing Website Passionate Hearts page, www.VanillaHeartBooksAndAuthors.com.
Vanilla Heart
Publishing Authors Share Knowledge and Experiences!
All posts
available in print and as audio podcasts right on the site.
To
date, we have a fabulous selection of blog postings, with more added
weekly!
Finding Time
to Write by Victoria
Howard
Write Like An Earth Mage by Smoky Trudeau
A Writer’s Life: Living Amongst “the
Others” by Chelle
Cordero
Ask Editors for Writing Assignments by Malcolm Campbell
Thinking About a Blog? by Chelle Cordero
It's Just a Romance Novel by Victoria
Howard
Four Reasons to Go Independent by Smoky Trudeau
Opportunity
Knocks by
Malcolm Campbell
Real Fiction Characters by Charmaine Gordon
Submission Etiquette by Smoky Trudeau
Twitter Me by Chelle Cordero
Social Networking 101 by Collin Kelley
Creative Wanderlust by Smoky Trudeau
Virtual Tours
and Live
Streaming Webcams by Sandy
Nicks
Helping Your Child Find 'The Inner Writer' by Misha Crews
Writing The Novel by Marilyn Celeste Morris
Solitude by Chelle Cordero
A Room of One's Own by Smoky Trudeau
Critique or Criticism? by Charmaine Gordon
Thinking Like a Writer - Setting by Robert Hays
Let's Help Make
a Drop in the Bucket into an Ocean of Hope!
Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to join with our authors to donate a portion of the proceeds from sales of five different books to the Greater New Orleans Foundation Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund for their relief efforts, both short term and long term, from the horrendous effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster.
Come Join in the Fun at our VHP Reader's
Club! We're
having a blast! Authors and readers celebrate the VHP
Reader's Club with freebies, author interviews, character discussions,
excerpts, chat, Q&A, games, giveaways, and more!
Check out our new (and always being updated) Title
Info Catalog. You'll find each of our titles, with title info and
cover pic - all in one easy-to-view page. And for all our terrific
ebooks, in multiple formats, all fiction titles just $5.99 each, check
out the Ebook Catalog with direct purchase links!