Help Make a Drop in the Bucket into an Ocean of Hope!

When you purchase Hostage Heart in ANY format - or choose one of four other VHP titles (see below) - Vanilla Heart Publishing will make a generous donation 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

Hostage Heart by Chelle Cordero
AMAZON * B&N * OMNILIT PDF
KINDLE * SMASHWORDS MULTIFORMAT

"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. "

Purchase ANY of these five books and VHP will make a donation:

Three Weeks Last Spring by Victoria Howard
Nature’s Gifts Anthology compiled by Vanilla Heart Publishing
Hostage Heart by Chelle Cordero
Observations of an Earth Mage by Smoky Trudeau
The House on the Shore by Victoria Howard

The VHP Author Blog

I blogged on the VHP Author Blog about A Writer’s Life: Living Amongst “the Others”

Please come by and check it out - and PRETTY PLEASE leave comments.

And why not bookmark the VHP Author Blog as a favorite - there will always be great reading from the authors at Vanilla Heart Publishing!

Vanilla Heart Publishing Announces 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominees

"Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2009 The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses, published every year since 1976, and widely recognized as the most honored literary project in America.

From the Pushcart Prize Website:

“The Pushcart Press has been recognized as among the most influential publishers in American history by Publishers Weekly. Pushcart won the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), The Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize (2006), and Publishers Weekly’s Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year (1979).

The Press is best known for its annual anthology The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, published every year for more than three decades and featuring outstanding fiction, poetry, memoirs and essays selected from hundreds of little magazines and small book publishers.”

And now, the Vanilla Heart Publishing Nominees:

Robert Hays; The Life and Death of Lizzie Morris

Chelle Cordero; Final Sin

Victoria Howard; Three Weeks Last Spring

Collin Kelley; Conquering Venus

Kate Evans; Complementary Colors

Vila SpiderHawk; Forest Song: Little Mother

Congratulations, Nominees!

Final Sin is a 2009 Pushcart Prize Nominee!

Yeppers!

Final Sin by Chelle Cordero has been nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize competition!

I am so excited.

Did YOU read Final Sin?

If you did, I need a favor - WHICH chapter do you think was the best?
I've been trying to figure it out... Please let me know, just leave your comments below.

Here's the post from Vanilla Heart Publishing:

Vanilla Heart Publishing Announces

2009 Pushcart Prize Nominees

Vanilla Heart Publishing is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2009 The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses, published every year since 1976, and widely recognized as the most honored literary project in America.

From the Pushcart Prize Website:

“The Pushcart Press has been recognized as among the most influential publishers in American history by Publishers Weekly. Pushcart won the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award (2005), The Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize (2006), and Publishers Weekly’s Carey Thomas Prize for publisher of the year (1979).

The Press is best known for its annual anthology The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, published every year for more than three decades and featuring outstanding fiction, poetry, memoirs and essays selected from hundreds of little magazines and small book publishers.”

And now, our Vanilla Heart Publishing Nominees:

Robert Hays; The Life and Death of Lizzie Morris

Chelle Cordero; Final Sin

Victoria Howard; Three Weeks Last Spring

Collin Kelley; Conquering Venus

Kate Evans; Complementary Colors

Vila SpiderHawk; Forest Song: Little Mother

Congratulations, Nominees!

(btw, congratulations to all of the nominees, I am in GREAT company!)