Last chance to stock up on your summer reading with The Elevator Group’s $10 per book Summer Book Sale, now extended through Labor Day, September 5!  Click here to purchase direct from The Elevator Group at http://www.TheElevatorGroup.com. All of our award-winning and  best-selling books are now on sale through Labor Day, September 5, 2016. Act now because prices go back up… Continue reading

Catching up on a great review   for my novel Becoming Valley Forge in  July’s Main Line Today magazine.    “This exacting work of historical fiction from Paoli’s Sheilah Vance explores the lives of ordinary men and women—a former slave, a farmer, Army volunteers—as revolution engulfs the region. The perfect beach read for a patriotic month.”  Thank… Continue reading

Stock up on your summer reading with The Elevator Group’s $10 per book Summer Book Sale from now through September 1.  Click here to purchase direct from The Elevator Group at http://www.TheElevatorGroup.com. All of our award-winning and  best-selling books are on sale through September 1, 2016. Enjoy and happy reading! Continue reading

I love Amazon.  They transformed publishing so that self-published authors and independent publishers like me could compete with the big five New York publishers.  Amazon didn’t stigmatize or separate people who self-published, like I did with my first novel, Chasing the 400.  Amazon made it possible for me to even think about then becoming an independent publisher… Continue reading

About two weeks ago, I attended Heritage Night at the Valley Forge National Historic Park, sponsored by the Valley Forge Alliance.  This event commemorated the day the Continental Army left Valley Forge–June 19, 1778. The army left Valley Forge more disciplined and as a better fighting force than when they marched in on December 19,… Continue reading

Thanks to the kind invitation of Lower Merion Township Commissioner Steven Lindner, I’ll be riding in the Lower Merion Township Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 30.  The parade will begin at Greenfield Avenue at the firehouse at 10:30 a.m. and process to St. Paul’s Cemetery for the Memorial Day Service at 11:15 a.m. Michael T. O’Hagan, a veteran of the United… Continue reading

Today is the 62nd anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing segregation in public schools.  “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” sa… Source: 62 Years after Brown v. Board of Education, Segregation Increasing Continue reading

I’m thrilled with the Historical Novel Society’s review of  Becoming Valley Forge.  The HNS is a literary society devoted to promoting the enjoyment of historical fiction and is based in the USA and the UK but has members from all around the world. Check it out: “In her epic-length novel Becoming Valley Forge, Sheilah Vance dramatizes the horrific depredations experienced… Continue reading

I just got my first major book review for  my novel, Becoming Valley Forge, and I couldn’t have asked for anything more! Here’s the review from the Midwest Book Review, April 2016, Small Press Watch:   Although a work of fiction, author Sheilah Vance has included a great deal of historically factual background details in her stirring… Continue reading