Vanilla Heart Publishing
Chelle
Cordero, multiple nominee in the Annual Preditors & Editors Poll,
and Vanilla Heart Publishing, celebrate the Public Release of Courage of the Heart January 19, 2009
COURAGE OF THE HEART ...
sometimes love is the only cure for the very deepest
of emotional wounds.
Editorial Reviews
Fantastic re-release of Ms. Cordero's Debut Novel! Revised and updated/skillfully expanded, Chelle gives us another amazing story...nine years later...and well worth the wait! --CL Borden
I've been lucky enough to have been beta reader on each of Chelle's novels so far, and Courage of the Heart does not disappoint! She's incredibly skilled at creating characters the reader feels they know intimately, can relate to, and enjoy! --Michelle Martin
About the Author
Chelle Cordero, author of the novels, Bartlett's Rule (VHP April,2008), Forgotten (VHP July, 2008), Within the Law (VHP October, 2008), and this fabulous re-release of her debut novel, Courage of the Heart (VHP January, 2009), has been published by Gannett Newspapers, SPOTLIGHT Magazine, Hudson Valley Magazine, and other national magazines and regional publications. Ms. Cordero is also a partner in By-Lines, an editorial and photography company catering to the business community. She lives in the New York suburb of Stony Point with her lover and husband of thirty-two years, and her son; her daughter and son-in-law live nearby. In her spare time, and sometimes when she has none to spare, Chelle is an avid reader and fan of Danielle Steele, Faye Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Patricia Cornwell and other popular novelists.
All of Chelle Cordero amazing novels are available in Print format, Kindle format, and in Instant download Ebook format at VHP Bookstore, through all major distributors and through Amazon. Instant download Ebook format Courage of the Heart is available at VHP Ebook Catalog and a video trailer of all her released books Combined Chelle Cordero Releases Video
Be sure to visit Chelle's Great Blog for more terrific news, contests, excerpts, and more...
VANILLA HEART PUBLISHING SIGNS AUTHOR OF TEN TIMES GUILTY, BRENDA HILL, FOR BEYOND THE QUIET
Seattle, WA, October 24,
2008—Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce their signing Brenda Hill,
author of Ten Times Guilty, for her
newest novel, Beyond the Quiet.
Beyond the Quiet
shares the story of one woman’s struggles though bitterness, loss, and
betrayal, learning to cherish each moment and follow her long-buried dreams.
It’s the story of how a quiet, passionless widow becomes spirited enough to climb
onto her lover’s shoulders for a piggyback ride in the nude.
“To
all of our years together,” Lisa Montgomery’s husband said one evening, raising
his glass in a toast, “some of them good.” They laughed and clicked wine
glasses. But after his death, Lisa discovers he hadn’t been teasing. When the
contents of a secret post office box reveals his illicit affair, she struggles
to come to terms with his betrayal. Forced to examine her life as a wife,
mother, and as a woman, she realizes her troubled childhood didn’t allow her to
be anything but composed and quiet, and she’d never learned to show love.
A
chance meeting with a retired fire chief leads to changes she’d never imagined,
and she falls in love for the first time. She learns to open her heart, to let
go of the sterile woman she’d become and passionately embrace the woman she
wishes to be. Only her relationship with her estranged daughter dulls her new
happiness, so Lisa prepares to make one more effort to talk to her, to offer
the love she’d always felt but never knew how to express. But a jealous
coworker watches, wanting to destroy what he can’t have.
“Beyond the Quiet is a novel for all women, everywhere.
This heartrending story touches on all
of the joys, sorrows, trials and triumphs that come with being a woman. The
plot is captivating and Lisa is a complex and likeable character. I couldn’t
help rooting for her every step of the way on her journey to self-discovery.
Brenda Hill’s writing is sensual, emotional and beautiful.” – M. Jean Pike, Award Winning author of Heatherfield and Waiting For
The Rain
To learn more
about Brenda Hill and Beyond the Quiet, along with her previously
released Ten Times Guilty, Amazon
Short “Am I Wife or Mother?”, and other works, please visit www.brendahill.com or her author pages at
Vanilla Heart Publishing, www.vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com/Brenda_Hill.html.
A pre-release book trailer video for Beyond
the Quiet is available on Vanilla Heart Publishing's website at http://www.vanillaheartnooksandauthors.com, as well as author connections, book tour
calendar, event announcements, media
kits and more.
Kimberlee Williams
Vanilla Heart Publishing
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Rockland County Author Chelle Cordero’s Bartlett’s Rule Featured as August Book of the Month at Prestigious Origin Books, Art and Coffee
Multi-published author, Chelle Cordero, of Rockland County, New York, has been selected as August Book of the Month Author for her novel Bartlett’s Rule by the management team at the prestigious Origin Books, Art and Coffee, located in Nanuet Mall, Suite 1021, 75 West Route 59, Nanuet, New York,
10954.
Bartlett’s Rule, presented by Vanilla Heart Publishing, and available in print, ISBN: 978-0-9796545-3-4 and in large type Ebook formats, and will be published later this year in a large print print edition to serve visually impaired readers and fans.
Bartlett’s Rule shares the story of Lon and Paige’s love affair; a romance filled with hardship, emotion, danger and triumph. Falling in love was never the challenge; being there for each other, knowing just what to say and making it work is the real test.
When Paige Andrews is given the assignment of courting a famous writer for the publishing company she works for, she meets and entices the sexy, charming and thoroughly dangerous womanizer, Lon Bartlett.
Lon immediately takes a not-so-professional, personal interest in the young woman and pursues her. Lon is thrilled when Paige finally succumbs to his charms only to find that her haunting past sets off a terrifying reaction. Lon learns a heartbreaking reality - Paige is a rape survivor.
Editorial Review:
“A fantastic read -- a love story between two seemingly very different kinds of people. Between all the tribulations that get in the way of their romance, they ultimately triumph. The story is so well crafted and the characters evoke lots of emotion from the reader. The plot takes lots of twists and turns and underscores
the severity of rape crimes and the lasting damage it inflicts upon its victims. I look forward to reading the author's second novel, ‘Forgotten’. Its preview seems to be as captivating as this book was!” (Barbara Moroch, editor, The Journal News)
Origin Books, Art and Coffee is sponsoring Bartlett’s Rule for their well-attended Book Club Discussion Group on Sunday, September 7, 2008 1-3PM, and Ms. Cordero will be available for autographing following.
MORE INFORMATION
Group sales, wholesale sales, or to schedule an appearance:
Kimberlee Williams
Vanilla Heart Publishing
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VANILLA HEART PUBLISHING CELEBRATES THE PUBLIC RELEASE OF CIPHER BY DUANE FINLEY
Seattle, WA, March 10, 2008—Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce the Public Release of Duane Finley’s Cipher, and is hosting the novel’s Book Release Launch Party online Vanilla Heart Books and Authors, vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com, their new, interactive website, with drawings, prizes, excerpts, premier of the book trailer video, and special double discounts on autographed copies of Cipher in their secure shopping bookstore.
Cipher tells
the tale of Oscar spent his entire life spinning his wheels but on that
fateful morning of September 11, and when the world began to crash
around him, he fled, running from the world…and from himself. He meets
Murphy Tucker, a modern day outlaw with the wind at his back and a
peculiar smile on his face. The two men strike up a partnership that
begins on opportunity and will ultimately end in darkness.
Their window is small and their timing has to be perfect in order to cash in on the worst attack to ever reach American soil.
What
the two men fail to realize is that shortly after their plan takes its
first steps, one of the hardest nosed and best dressed
Vanilla Heart Publishing, of
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podcast excerpts, and secure bookstore available now http://www.vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com. Click on the forum in the navigation bar to the left to join us for this exciting Online Book Launch Party for Cipher by Duane Finley.
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VHP SIGNS AUTHOR AND ARTIST SARAH NATALIA LEE FOR
SAVING AMY
Seattle, WA, March 14, 2008—Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce
their signing Sarah Natalia Lee for her newest novel, Saving Amy.
Saving Amy, a tale of finding love in a graveyard; love between a beautiful, ageless vampiress and a teenaged girl thrown into her father’s home - a father she barely remembers – by the untimely death of her mother. As Emma and her sisters try to adjust to their new family life, she searches for love, acceptance, joy, and finds all of these and more. Emma and Amy face many dangers together and must break the grip of Madam Noctis, the vampire who stole Amy’s soul years before.
From Saving Amy:
The
park has grown tiring, but it’s still very early and I do not yet want to
return to my grave for sleep lest I wake before the sun is down and feel the
desperate need to stretch. I sit against the fence surrounding the graveyard,
the cold iron bars pressing into my back. Sensations of fear rush throughout
me. Even though it has been five years, the idea of my life as an undead still
terrifies and pains me. I miss home. I miss Mommy, Daddy, Nathan, and Kelly. I
miss all my friends at my school and all my distant relatives. I know they miss
me, too. Oh, why did I have to be taken away from all that I held so dear? Why,
why, why?
Voices echo behind me. I gasp and
try to remain positively frozen, clasping one hand over my mouth. Soon, the
voices become coherent, and I strain to hear what is being spoken.
“I’m telling you, Madam, I think
that Amy girl is incomplete.”
“And whatever makes you say that,
Jason?”
“She’s just not like the rest of us.
She’s never visibly stricken with thirst for blood, she never speaks of her
feeds, she’s terrified of everything. I’ve also seen her swinging at the park
and when we speak to her of drinking blood, she cringes and pushes us aside.
It’s like she hates being undead. I think she’s still part human.”
“No vampire, complete or otherwise,
can still be ‘part human’, Jason. Now you know I am the one who took Amy and
that I never let any of my victims become incomplete unless they are anemic.
You know my rules, Jason. And believe me, I am quite familiar with anemic
blood. There is no possible way Amy is anemic; her blood is some of the richest
I’ve ever tasted.”
To learn more about Sarah Natalia Lee, her writing and her
art, and to read excerpts drawn from Saving
Amy, visit her at Vanilla Heart Books and Authors, http://www.vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com/Sarah_Natalia_Lee.html,
where you’ll find contests, promos, excerpts and online book release launch
parties.
A professionally produced book trailer for Saving Amy will be available soon on
Vanilla Heart Publishing's interactive website at http://www.vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com,
with forums, blogs, special discounted publisher prices on this and other
books, as well as our secure shopping cart for our library of quality titles by
quality authors, event announcements, media kits and reader contests and
prizes.
Kimberlee Williams
Vanilla Heart Publishing
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VANILLA HEART PUBLISHING
CELEBRATES THE PUBLIC RELEASE OF FOREST
SONG: FINDING HOME, BY AUTHOR
Forest Song: Finding Home is the enchanting story of Judy Baumann’s struggle to escape to her true home in the woods and to grow into her power there. A cast of magical characters, including a witch, the witch’s consort, a family of fairies, an ancient oak, and a bevy of animals each help her in her search for ‘home’.
From Forest Song: Finding Home, page 73:
“I entered the
forest calling his name, and, sure he was teasing, I braced myself for a
roaring burst of him from behind a rock or a tree. Nothing happened. I yelled
again. There was no response. I screamed, drawing out his name so I had to
breathe between the syllables. My voice cracked. A twig snapped. I twirled
around with a grin, but Jochen wasn’t there. Every crunch of the leaves, every
whoosh of a bird caused me to spin, first with hope and then with fear as the
truth of my situation seeped into my mind. I didn’t know what to do. If I stood
still the bandits or wolves or bears or child-eating plants would get me. If I
moved, Jochen wouldn’t know where I was.”
Vanilla Heart
Publishing, of
Vanilla Heart Publishing's new, interactive website with a
complete title listing author pages, new releases, forum, blog, video trailers,
podcast excerpts, and secure shopping cart bookstore at http://www.vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com.
Click on the forum in the navigation bar to the left to join us for this
exciting Online Book Launch Party for Forest Song: Finding Home by Vila SpiderHawk.
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VANILLA
HEART PUBLISHING CELEBRATES THE PUBLIC RELEASE OF REDEEMING GRACE, BY AUTHOR SMOKY TRUDEAU
Seattle,
WA, February 27, 2008—Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce the Public
Release of Smoky Trudeau’s Redeeming Grace,
and is hosting the novel’s Book Release Launch Party online at their new,
interactive website, with drawings, prizes, excerpts, the book trailer video
with music by Jonathan Shippey, and special discounts on autographed copies of Redeeming Grace in their secure shopping
bookstore.
After the tragic deaths of her mother and two
younger siblings, young Grace Harmon
becomes responsible for raising her sister Miriam and protecting her from their
abusive father, Luther, a zealot preacher with a penchant for speaking in
Biblical verse who is on a downward spiral toward insanity.
Luther's insane ravings and increasingly violent
behavior force Grace to question and reassess the patriarchal religious beliefs
of her childhood. Then tragedy strikes just when Otto's secret is uncovered, unleashing
demons that threaten to destroy the entire family. Can Grace find the strength
to save them, and in the process find her own redemption?
Redeeming Grace is set on
“Smoky Trudeau has written a book of love...marital
love, love of family, love of nature and the land. But that love is threatened
by the insane love of an old man for his jealous god. Long-suppressed secrets
erupt into nightmares, a tornado strikes, and an unspeakable crime is
committed. An unlikely hero saves the day and we see how authentic love
does indeed conquer all things.” — Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D., author of Pagan
Every Day, Finding New Goddesses , and Quicksilver Moon.
Vanilla Heart Publishing, of
A
professionally produced book trailer for Redeeming
Grace is now available on Vanilla Heart Publishing's new, interactive website
with a complete title listing and bookstore at http://www.vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com.
Their new website is the home for readers and authors to share, with podcast
excerpts, book trailer videos, book release launch parties with drawings and
prizes, special discounts, and more.
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Vanilla Heart Publishing
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MEDIA RELEASE
VHP SIGNS AUTHOR BRIAN NARANJO FOR HIS FIRST TWO NOVELS, CHILDISH THINGS AND THE TAMALE LIST
Vanilla
Heart Publishing, a small, independent press based in
The
36-year-old author’s second novel, The
Tamale List, will be publicly released April 5, and available shortly
thereafter in bookstores and online through normal distribution channels
worldwide.
Only
a month later, they’ll re-release his inaugural effort, Childish Things. Naranjo originally published Childish Things in May 2006, and said it was well-received by those
who read it. However, with almost no distribution and limited marketing, the
work was under-represented and not widely promoted.
“This
time will be different,” said Kimberlee Williams, Vanilla Heart’s managing
editor.
“Brian’s
books will be available through all the major book distributors worldwide and
widely available online,” she explained. “Plus, our marketing department is
targeting book stores all over the
Williams
added that the quality of Naranjo’s products makes them an ‘easy sell’. “Brian
has a unique, straight-forward approach to his writing. His style draws you
into the story from Page 1, and you’re soon in the thick of the plot. I fell in
love with his finely crafted characters in both books, am we are excited about
having them both in our title lineup,” she said.
The
Tamale List is a light-hearted but
fictional look at a cul-de-sac in
“It’s
not exactly social commentary, but I think anyone who’s ever been on either end
of the ‘there goes the neighborhood’ line will be able to identify and laugh a
little,” he said of The Tamale List,
which he finished writing in Jan. 2007.
“Childish Things hits much closer to
home,” Naranjo continued, “because it is based on my life growing up, and
focuses on a young man out of high school, who’s coming to terms with a
decision he made to join the Navy. The book starts on this character’s last
night before boot camp. He gets together with his favorite cousin, and the two
reflect on their childhood. There are a lot of crazy, goofy anecdotes, but the
central theme is about living life to its fullest, and never giving up.”
Naranjo
joined the U.S. Navy in 1990, and served on active duty for a total of nearly
10 years. Today, he works for the U.S. Army at
For
the native Texan, just being a “real” author makes all the difference in the
world, from the feeling of satisfaction he gained, to the level of service he’s
enjoyed from the publisher. Through Vanilla Heart, Naranjo has worked daily
with the company’s entire team, reviewing cover concepts, promotional giveaway
items, and a wide range of copy and content editing. And the price is right, he
added. “Well, they get paid when my books sell, so it’s a great incentive,” he
said with a laugh. “Seriously, Vanilla Heart has been a real breath of fresh
air, in every way.”
Naranjo
said he’s excited at the opportunity to visit different bookstores and
libraries to perform readings and do book signings. “I can’t wait to meet
people, total strangers, who’ve read, or are going to read my books,” he said.
“That’s when it will all stop feeling like a dream!”
For
more information, including announcements about Mr. Naranjo’s books and
updates, or to schedule an event, please contact Vanilla
Heart Books and Authors or visit Brian Naranjo at http://www.briannaranjo.com.
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Vanilla
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