Victoria Valentine

I've been writing since I was a child, and have boxes of unfinished, unpublished stories as well as three novels. I also write romance as January Valentine.

About 11 years ago, I began publishing online ezines that led to beautiful literary magazines that were distributed across the country. After a few years, I switched over to the publication of Literary Anthologies and Poetry Digests that appear on Amazon.com and other sites. Skyline, Literary House and Water Forest Press books are subscribed to by the New York Public Library, Rockefeller Library @ Brown University, Madison Library @ University of Wisconsin, college libraries in CA and Illinois, Indie book stores in California. Hudson View is distributed in South Africa as well.

I published a book with another author, Steve Manchester, in 2002, At The Stroke of Midnight, 24 tales of terror which sold a print run of 3000 books. I've published short stories and poetry in Taj Mahal anthologies, a French literary publication, poetry online Red River Review, and others. I've also written lyrics for an alternative rock CD entitled, Eyes of Ash which was performed by Jeremy Calogero and his band, The Unintended.

I started writing Love Dreams, one of my four unpublished novels, over 20 years ago, resurrected seven "bad" chapters and a skeleton outline last year, and decided to finally finish it. So, 98,000+ words later, her I am. I've finally completed it.

Excerpts of The Last Resort horror novel appear in At the Stroke of Midnight. However, along with my other novels, The Last Resort has never been entirely completed due full time jobs and running an indie book publishing gig, which I've set aside to concentrate on my own endeavors before I take my final breath :-)