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Read "Beware the Nine," Laurel Anne Hill's new steampunk short story in How Beer Saved the World (Sky Warrior Books, 2013).

Here’s a book that takes issue with the popular image of beer as the drink of sports-watching couch potatoes: How Beer Saved the World, an anthology of quirky short stories celebrating beer. Edited by Book View Cafe’s Phyllis Irene Radford, this is a collection of 14 different takes on positive outcomes brought on by beer. Contributing authors include Brenda Clough , Irene Radford , Shannon Page , Mark J Ferrari, Frog and Esther Jones, G. David Nordley, Bob Brown , Nancy Jane Moore, Joyce Reyonds-Ward, Laurel Anne Hill, and others.

Beer goes back to the early days of the human race. As it says in the introduction, “Fermented grains have been a mainstay of the human diet almost as long as we have been human.” So pour yourself a cold one and sit down with these stories.

How Beer Saved the World is available in ebook form from Amazon and Smashwords . Purchase the trade paper version at Amazon.com.

Read "The Golden Gifts" by Laurel Anne Hill in Michael Ventrella's new anthology A Bard in the Hand (Double Dragon Publishing, 2013).

Welcome to Fortannis ― a place where adventure waits to waylay you around every corner. It's a land where humans mingle with stubborn dwarves, mysterious elves, and feathered biata against shape-shifting gryphons, necromantic zombies, and silly goblins. It's a land where things are never as they seem; where good and evil are not always clear-cut, and where the strong do not always prevail.

A Bard in the Hand is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble .

Read 'Till Death Do Us Part, by Laurel Anne Hill, in HORRIBLE DISASTERS (HorrorAddicts.net, 2013), a short-story anthology. The backdrop for'Till Death Do Us Part is the Berkeley, California, fire of 1923.

In HORRIBLE DISASTERS, thirteen authors from around the globe share their visions of terror set during real natural disasters throughout history. Travel back in time to earth shattering events like the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and the Winter of Terror avalanches, 1950. What supernatural events went unnoticed? What creatures caused such destruction without remorse? Stock your emergency kit, hunker in your bunker, and prepare for… Horrible Disasters. Proceeds go to help disaster relief globally by way of the Rescue Task Force.

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Read “Unsettled” by Laurel Anne Hill

FAULT ZONE: OVER THE EDGE
An Anthology of Stories

This amazing anthology was written by the San Francisco/Peninsula Writers Club (CWC SF/Peninsula Branch) and published by the Sand Hill Review Press. The work was edited by Lisa Meltzer Penn, Audrey Kalman and Tory Hartmann.

Here's what author Mary F. Burns has to say about Fault Zone: Over the Edge:

Talk about edgy! Fault Zone: Over the Edge is a collection of fantastical, intense and spirited writing that arises straight out of the chthonic beating heart of storytelling. From the wildly civilized animals of the imagination to the barely civilized humans who roam the cities and suburbs of America, these stories and poems take the reader on a literary journey into some very dark places that nonetheless shine with the light of truth.

—Mary F. Burns

Author of J-The Woman Who Wrote the Bible and Portraits of an Artist

Stories by:Camille Alexa, Shen Braun, Amanda Clark, Ray Dean, Tim Ford, Laurel Anne Hill, Minsoo Kang, William H. Keith, Crystal Koo, Frank Larnerd, Emily Mah, Derwin Mak, Brent Nichols, Frances Pauli, Jennifer Rahn, Tim Reynolds, Julia A. Rosenthal, Nick Tramdack, K. H. Vaughan.

Edited by:
Ace Jordyn, Calvin D. Jim and Renee Bennett

More Information:
www.shanghai-steam.com
A History of Steampunk
Beyond Victoriana
List of Steampunk Works Steampunk Wiki
Official Release: World Fantasy Convention,
November 1-4, 2012 Toronto

LaurelAnne Hill entered Flight of Destiny in the 2011 Wicked Women WritersChallenge sponsored by
Horror Addicts.net. She won their first-place award, granting her the title: "Most Wicked 2011."

Read Laurel Anne Hill's short story "Grip of Chaos" in Tales of Fortannis: A Bard's Eye View, an anthology edited by Michael Ventrella (Double Dragon Publishing, 2011).

Read Laurel Anne Hill's short story, "The Grave of Mario Bandini," in Fault Zone: Words from the Edge, an anthology edited by Lisa Meltzer-Penn (San Francisco/Peninsula California Writers Club, 2010)

Read Laurel Anne Hill's short story, "Thar Be Magic," in Rum and Runestones, an anthology of magic and piracy edited by Valerie Griswold-Ford (Dragon Moon Press, 2010).

In a world where justice is achieved through careful customs of vengeance, Gundack pursues love and the preservation of his honor. But can he break the cycle of vengeance? Can he reach into his personal darkness and find the light of reason?

Desert kren are a nomadic people who believe their customs and mythology show them how to be honorable and thrive. Gundack, a trader and leader of the tribe, seeks revenge for the murder of his wife Talla in the prescribed manner of his people. According to kren custom, he must fulfill a vow of decreed vengeance against Tarr, the ruthless mountain kren responsible for Talla’s murder, and complete a pilgrimage to gain the right to marry the fair Eutoebi.

Gundack forms an unlikely alliance with the human Rheemar, who searches for a beloved sister stolen by Tarr. Rheemar’s mysterious past holds many secrets, including knowledge that could lead to the end of Tarr’s attacks on travelers and villagers and allow Gundack to return to his tribe in time for the Day of Marriages. But Rheemar is blinded by loyalties that he won’t reveal and ambitions that reflect a naive understanding of heroism.

As time grows short and some vows are satisfied, circumstances thrust Gundack into escalating tribal tensions. Only then does he realize that he must confront the oldest of kren beliefs: If vengeance swallows the land, Tharda shall bring a white light to give strength to the least of us, and unbelievers will make heroes arise. But can the least worthy prove themselves to be heroes, and the most worthy at least heroic?

Laurel Anne Hill has written a modern parable about timeless ideals: The pursuit of honor and justice, and the right to love and family. In an era when definitions of terrorism and heroism can seem fickle and where honor may be capricious, this debut author gives readers a story of great insight and inspiration.

Heroes Arise received a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award for 2007 (bronze award, science fiction category) and was a finalist in the young adult category.

Heroes Arise was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, young adult and best cover design categories.

Heroes Arise is a story about breaking the cycle of vengeance, about reaching into our personal darkness to find the light of reason.