Find Russ at these Summer Events: July 19th: Heartland Veterinary Hospital, Danville, Kentucky   Russ and Virginia will be signing and selling their books to help raise money for bullet proof vests for police dogs. July 25th:  Twilight Festival, Versailles, Kentucky   August 2nd:  Gathering of Authors, Paul Sawyer Public Library, Frankfort, KY  Russ and Virginia will be on Authors Row signing and selling their books. August 6th:  Rotary Club meeting, Harrodsburg, Kentucky       Russ will be speaking and signing books. August 15 - 17th:  High Bridge Homecoming Festival, Wilmore, Kentucky         Russ and Virginia will be signing and selling their books. August 30 - 31st:  Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival, Winchester, Kentucky     We will be there signing and selling our books. We hope to see y'all at one of these events where we will be signing and selling our books and some floral baskets.

Tears and Tales: Stories of Animal and Human Rescue has won three AWARDS.   Russ is a finalist in the USABookNews Best Books 2006 Book Awards in the Fiction & Literature: Short Stories, Fiction, category.  The book is also a semi-finalist in the Reader Views 2006 Literary Awards.  And, finally Russ is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Short Story Fiction category of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards for his book Tears and Tales.  Listen to Russ's Internet Radio Interview at: http://www.globaltalkradio.com/shows/callingallauthors/ You can also read his interview at: http://www.readerviews.com/InterviewVassallo.html Russ submitted a short story, The Heart Betrayed, to the Reader Views Short Story contest on Transformation -- an autobiographical story about how the author was changed.  His story was a finalist and is going to be published by Loving Healing Press.  The book will be out in June, 2007.

Steve Flairty, author of Tim Farmer ... A Kentucky Woodsman Restored, interviewed Russ recently for his new book, Kentucky's Everyday Heroes...Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things.   Steve's book is out and doing quite well.  There is an entire chapter on Russ along with a photo.  Kentucky's Everyday Heroes can be purchased from Wind Publications, 600 Overlook Drive, Nicholasville, KY 40356. ISBN: 978-1-893239-75-3