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About Vedantic Shores Press

Vedantic Shores Press is a small publishing company created in 2001 and situated in Redding, the metropolitan marketplace of Northern California, north of Sacramento. 

Our mission is to provide literature for self-understanding and Self* discovery through the publication of the spiritual works of writer, teacher and mystic, Paul Hourihan. These inspired works, in different genres (creative nonfiction, nonfiction books, and novels), provide an oasis of spiritual guidance to individuals struggling for permanent values in an ever-changing, secular society.  Some of Dr. Hourihan's course lectures are available as CDs and audiocassettes. 

All of our eventual dozen titles taken together constitute a road map and a light for anyone seeking knowledge of the Divine and Self-illumination. Their quality and force advance age-old truths that speak directly to the modern world.

The books, in totality, are like another countrya Shangri-La of mysticism, a soul-retreat for the world-weary to enter in and find their lost identity. They open up another realm in a quite literal sensethe reader's own as it is reflected back from a mirror mystically created in page after page, chapter after chapter, book after book.

Paul Hourihan is uniquely qualified to provide such works by virtue of his literary and spiritual background. 

Three of our titles have received awards from the Northern California Publishers & Authors Association. Mysticism in American Literature: Thoreau's Quest and Whitman's Self, won three awards including Bronze Book Award, Best General Nonfiction, and Best Spiritual Book Awards for 2004-2005  Our first two titles, Ramakrishna and Christ The Supermystics: New Interpretations, and The Death of Thomas Merton, A Novel, received awards for Best Spiritual Book for 2002 and 2003 respectively.  

In keeping with one of our goals to contribute to the protection of the environment and the responsible use of natural resources, Vedantic Shores Press has joined the Green Press Initiative. As a member we have established policy goals for the next three years to increase the use of recycled paper and  eliminate the use of papers that may contain fiber from Endangered Forests.

For our policies click here.

Submission Inquiries: We are not accepting submissions of manuscripts or book proposals at this time.

*When we refer to "self," we mean the individual person, whereas "Self" refers to the core of our existence that is eternal, unchanging, unlimited.

Vedantic Shores Press is also a member of the following publishing associations:                          


Independent Book Publishers Association
(formerly PMA)

 


Northern California Publishers & Authors
(Formerly Sacramento Publishers & Authors)

Northern California Publishers & Authors


New York Center for Independent Publishing
(formerly The Small Press Center)

 

                                                                               

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