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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!)

Vanilla Heart Publishing and Chelle Cordero will donate $1 per copy of Bartlett’s Rule sold from midnight October 18, 2009 through midnight October 31, 2009 to The National Domestic Violence Hotline, to further their amazing work.

Bartlett’s Rule ISBN 978-0-9796545-3-4
print from Amazon
print from Barnes & Noble
various eBook formats from Smashwords
Kindle from Amazon
* more sources are available
Why Bartlett’s Rule?

Reviewed by Bobi

When Paige and Lon met it was purely for business but it wasn’t long before their hearts took control. Paige’s past comes back to haunt them and they soon come to realize that the devastating effects of rape and abuse extend beyond time and place to impact more than the primary victim herself. Lon has to grapple with his own intense anger and hurt over Paige’s assault. He also has to overcome mis-perceptions of his personal character while building a foundation of trust between himself and Paige.

Ms. Cordero skillfully tackles this topic as she poignantly tells the story of their journey to heal and develop a relationship based on strong reliance.

Bartlett’s Rule is more than a love story; it relates a valuable lesson for both men and women.

*The inclusion of links and/or information about National Domestic Violence Hotline constitutes no endorsement from said organization.

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We are in a quandary – Vanilla Heart Publishing likes my next manuscript, but we can’t decide on a name. I originally called this story “A Common Bond” but Kimberlee likes “Tangled Hearts” and plans to release this book around February for Valentine’s Day.

So please, help us to decide:

About the book…
Dennis Gillette has two too many fathers according to his mom, Layne, and both men are rich and powerful and either could afford to take her son away from her. One man is merciless, authoritarian and she fears him – the other is demanding, determined and sexy as hell. What happens when the two men have to face off against each other? Which one will win her love and which one will win her son?

Layne never met Justin until he showed up on her doorstep to claim his son, the same son she ran away with when she was pregnant to keep him from her husband, Charles. So is it a common bond they share, or is it a tale of tangled hearts? Or maybe you have another suggestion…

Send your suggestions to me at ChelleCordero@gmail.com and put your title choice in the subject line; be sure to put your name and mailing address into the body of the email because you just might win a prize!

If we choose your suggestion you can win a copy of my next release A Chaunce of Riches (in November which will include a preview of my next book) AND your name will be mentioned in Dedications & Acknowledgments in A Common Bond/Tangled Hearts/Tangled Common Bond Hearts and Elephant (!?). There will be a random drawing if multiple entries arrive with the same chosen title.

All entries are due by October 31!

Barnes & Nobel in the Palisades Mall, West Nyack NY

Barnes & Noble, 3721 Veterans Blvd., Metairie, LA

on Oct 4, Sunday, they will be on display at the West Hollywood Book Fair, at West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood

My latest titles will soon be carried at Inkwood Books
216 S. Armenia Ave., Tampa FL

If you you know of any stores where my books are carried on the shelves, please email me the name and location to ChelleCordero@gmail.com so I can list them here. Thanks.

And if they are NOT on the shelf at your favorite store – ASK THEM WHY NOT?

The day that Ben Johnson was hired as a bodyguard for some rich widow and her kid, he never expected to be working for the woman who had abandoned him just when he had needed her the most so many years before. Damn it all, he still wanted her.

Samantha Chaunce never thought she would see him again. She never thought she would have to explain why she married the rich man over the man she had sworn she once loved. And she certainly never expected to find out that her rich husband had been murdered and fingers were pointing to her former lover.


You can receive My Weekly Writing Workshop on your Kindle – just go to http://bit.ly/1kUf0y for details.

Chelle Cordero Fall 2009 Sampler

Enjoy a good taste of Chelle’s novels, Bartlett’s Rule, Forgotten, Within the Law, Courage of the Heart, Final Sin, and INCLUDING her yet-to-be-released A Chaunce of Riches

Vanilla Heart Publishing’s Romantic Suspense Sampler Fall 2009

These samples are works of fiction. Featuring works from: Brenda Hill, Chelle Cordero, Eva Gordon, Misha Crews, Sandy Nicks, Smoky Trudeau, & Victoria Howard

Vanilla Heart Publishing’s Mystery/Thriller Sampler Fall 2009

These sample chapters are works of fiction. Featuring works from: Brenda Hill, Chelle Cordero, Collin Kelley, Jeffrey Martin, Kimberly Mckay, Malcolm R Campbell, Marilyn Celeste Morris, Ryan Callaway, & Victoria Howard

All samplers are available in multiple ebook reading formats

1..Cordero’s writing and plot is engaging and entertaining

2. A major work, and a great story

3. the author skillfully captures emotion and feeling

4. Chelle Cordero has shared a suspenseful, romantic tale of two people the reader can’t help but become involved with

5. another Cordero whirlwind of gut-wrenching danger and prospective star-crossed love

6. High RPM Romantic Suspense

7. This is a five star book by a five star author

8. I kept turning pages because I had to know what happened next. The author didn’t let me down.

9. Any more books by Chelle Cordero?????

10. Gut-wrenching novel

11. Kudos to Ms. Cordero for penning an entertaining read.

12. The combined love story and suspense story really kept me intrigued

13. There is so much depth, intrigue

14. winning combination of romance and suspense

15. The story is so well crafted and the characters evoke lots of emotion from the reader

16. This author is a true hidden gem

17. Real people, Real Problems and Real Solutions

18. a love story between two seemingly very different kinds of people

19. turns in the plot to keep readers guessing about choices and outcomes until the last page.

20. she poignantly tells the story of their journey

Lazy days of August – just the perfect time for a contest!

Above are actual quotes & phrases from reviews about MY books (hint, ALL of these reviews appear on Amazon.com).

Just find the NAMES OF THE REVIEWERS for any 3 or more of the quotes above and your name will be put in for a drawing – there will be prizes (ebooks, lady’s XL ChelleCordero.com T-shirt, ???)

I will hold a random drawing from everyone who emails me at ChelleCordero@gmail.com and lists the names of 3 or more reviewers along with the # of the specific quote (in other words, if I wrote a review of someone’s book and the quote was number 3 on the list, the answer would be 3-Chelle Cordero) – put Contest in the subject line.

Winners will be drawn September 7!

Download a FREE First Chapter Chapbook of Bartlett’s Rule, Forgotten, Within the Law, Courage of the Heart, Final Sin & Hostage Heart

Five names were randomly chosen from all of the members of ChelleWrites

The Grand Prize Winner of a signed (print) copy of Hostage Heart is Barbara V.

Steve H & Jane R won ebook copies of Final Sin

Jenny W & Sheila B won ebook copies of Hostage Heart

My next contest will be announced soon…

The Author Show is re-running my January interview this weekend http://www.theauthorsshow.com/ August 8 & 9

Living, Breathing, Writing

My Weekly Writing Workshop  (Living, Breathing, Writing) for Kindle has been discontinued. But you don’t have to miss out, go to https://amzn.to/2Tj06HG for a copy of 60+ Days to Live, Breathe, & Write