Valerie's Vignettes
​The Blog that Started It All.  ​

​     Since 2010, this digital publication has been a platform for feature stories, essays, musings and commentary about things "momentous and mundane in the world of chocolate."
​www.ValorenaOnline.com
     From these posts, which have included short stories, narrative essays, reports and other "snapshots in prose," an assortment of creative projects have emerged and been chronicled.
     Examples include installation art for Figment Project - art in public spaces; short stories for Visible Ink, and  the emergence of the Cocoa Kids Collection of Children's books: "Isaiah and the Chocolate Mountain," "Eddie and the Hot Cocoa Hot Rod," and "Lorena and the Magic Mocha Mirror."
     Visit the blog, click through the archives, and check out the content. Then subscribe, read, and post a comment. We would love to hear from you!
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Image from Cocoa Kids Collection crowdfunding campaign.

​AN EARLY PRESS RELEASE (2017)
​"Valorena Online Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for the Second title in the Cocoa Kids Collection® Book Series" 
Tuesday, Aug. 4th, 2017 -Valorena Online, L.L.C. has announced the launch of its 2nd Indiegogo Campaign to crowd fund the publication of a new children's book,"Eddie and the Hot Cocoa Hot Rod©." 
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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

World Literacy Summit,
"Bridging Literacies: Connecting Worlds"
Oxford, United Kingdom.​

Cocoa & Conversation


​We are pleased to announce "The Reading Builds Empathy Pilot Survey: Picturebooks for Empathy Development" is published.