2012 Here we come!  We have already started to plan some shows.  Hope to see you. February 18, 2012    Mardi Gras Festival, St. Mary's, Georgia April 21, 2012            SOKY, Bowling Green, KY   9 AM - 3 PM April 28 & 29, 2012   Mountain Mushroom Festival, Irvine, KY  June 7, 8, & 9, 2012  Capital Expo, Frankfort, KY

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.