Vintage Romance Publishing, LLC

Company Profile

Private Company

Headquarters Location: P.O. Box 1165, Ladson, SC 29456-1165

(843) 225-9735, www.vrpublishing.com

Company Contact: Dawn Carrington, editor@vrpublishing.com

Company Description

Established in February 2004, Vintage Romance Publishing, LLC began publishing digital books with a focus on classic historical romances set in the early 20th century. Growing demand for paperback books encouraged Vintage to expand its titles into print.

In early 2008, Vintage Romance Publishing saw a demand for inspirational and children’s titles as well as wholesome young adult books and expanded its portfolio to include these genres. With almost thirty books in its growing portfolio, the company is set to expand in 2010 with the release of an additional ten-twelve titles.

Vintage Romance Publishing has achieved success with local and national bookstores, signed acclaimed authors, and won coveted national awards. Its authors have been interviewed in newspapers, magazines, on radio, and television.

Vintage Romance’s books are available in trade paperback only through major online outlets, local and national chain bookstores, and distributed through Ingram and Baker & Taylor.

In early 2010, Vintage Romance Publishing will change its name to Vintage Reflections Publishing to reflect the changes within its publishing borders.

Personnel

Dawn Carrington is the co-founder, Editor-in-Chief, and Business Manager for Vintage Romance and she's been involved in writing for over twenty years. Growing up, her imagination was her best friend and when she grew older, she parlayed it into a writing career. A multi-published author of over thirty novels, Dawn is also a freelance writer/editor/ teacher for various online courses to help aspiring writers.

Michelle Ruopoli is the co-founder of Vintage Romance. She’s enjoyed writing fiction for over twenty-five years and realized her creative imagination had great promise at an early age after having received a prestigious DAR (Daughters of The American Revolution) award for her composition of a history essay. Michelle has been actively involved in limitless, literary terrain to include poetry, song writing, children’s' stories, and even journalism. Michelle compiled, edited and participated in the poetry anthology, Traces of Love, which was published by Vintage Romance Publishing.

Deb Curwen is the co-founder of Vintage Romance. A career paralegal, she has been writing romantic fiction for well over twenty-five years and had her first romance novel published in March 2002. She has written for several publishers and her holiday rhyming story, The Christmas House, debuted from Vintage Romance Publishing in December 2004 with great success.

Rene Walden, of BG Designs, is the Cover Art Director and website designer for Vintage Romance. An experienced graphic artist, Rene has been with Vintage since 2006 and maintains the website as well as creating award-winning covers and managing the design team.

Shelley Patten-Forster is the illustrator for Vintage Romance’s children’s books. From a young age, Shelley had strong passions for art, reading and figure skating. Her art started out by drawing animals and portraits. By age twelve, she was able to draw portraits from a live model as well as photographs.

Over the years, she has worked with many mediums such as pencil, charcoal, acrylics, oils and craft paint. Various projects included portraiture, children's book illustrations, local area school and business windows, wall murals and canvas paintings.

Her most recent work, landscape and space art, is in Art Exhibitions & Shows and contributed to Silent Auctions for local Charity Organizations and Schools.

M.L. Benton is a cover artist for Vintage Romance. As owner of Moonglade Designs, she has created numerous award-winning covers and websites.

James F. Ruopoli, III is the creative designer for Vintage Romance. As well as designing the logo, he is instrumental in helping to maintain the cohesiveness of the website design and continues to work as an advisor for the design team.

Community Involvement and Charitable Contributions

Vintage Romance Publishing has long been a supporter of a domestic abuse causes and for the first three years of business donated a portion of its proceeds from the sales of its books each quarter. Recently, the company has chosen yearly charities to which to contribute ranging from children’s causes to homeless shelters.

In 2010, Vintage Romance Publishing, under its Spirit line, will release “Why Doesn’t Mommy Love Me—a journey through child abuse.” All proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated to Promises2Kids.org, an organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of child abuse and neglect through education, prevention, advocacy, and funding.