Laurel Anne Hill

Archives for July 2009

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Laurel Anne Hill (Author of "Heroes Arise) Schedule at Anticipation/2009 World Con in Montreal

Here's my Schedule at Anticipation in August.  Wow!  I get to talk about steam AND put together a train.

Every Picture Tells a Story , (1-026 Thu 14:00 1hr, P-510B Kids Programming) Laurel Anne Hill:  An artist draws a picture, then we create a story around it, guided by an expert storyteller. Which may lead to another picture…

Wooden Train Building  (1-077 Thu 17:00 1hr, P-510A Kids Programming) Kevin Standlee, Laurel Anne Hill:  Help us set up a massive wooden train layout, and maybe run an engine down the tracks.

Autographs (3-157S Sat 13:30 30min):  Peadar Ó Guilín, Jean-Pierre Guillet, Karen Haber, Colin Harvey, John Helfers, Laurel Anne Hill

Steampunk that Works (3-349 Sat 21:00 1hr, P-518BC Science and Space) Henry Spencer, Laurel Anne Hill, Sean McMullen:  Which of the envisaged steampunk technologies could actually work and how? How far could we take steampunk technologies? Could we have a steampunk quantum computer?

Author Reading  (4-144R Sun 12:30 1hr, P-522A) Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Laurel Anne Hill

Writing Workshop V  (5-041 Mon 11:00 2hr, D-Royer) Laurel Anne Hill, Steve Miller, Adrienne Foster: Critique session for previously submitted manuscripts

A Century of Atom Smashing (5-107 Mon 14:00 1hr, P-516D Science and Space)  Bill Higgins, Laurel Anne Hill, Stephen R. Cooper:  Ernest Rutherford, the first atom smasher, won a Nobel prize for his work at McGill University in Montreal. We discuss his work, what he did and what it led to.

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Is this the desk of Laurel Anne Hill or a scavenger hunt waiting to happen?

While I was at Readercon last week, my friend, Emerian Rich, emailed me a marvelous "tour" of a writer's workspace–a single photo of a highly-organized desk with numbers identifying points of interest.

 Although my own writing workspace is not nearly as tidy, it does possess a unique combination of odds and ends.  Check out the picture below and see if you can locate the following:

 1.  Ergonomic bed pillow used to adjust my husband's 45-year-old swivel chair to fit my dimensions

 2.  Postal meter manufactured when the first class postage rate was 25 cents for the first ounce

 3.  Postal meter manufactured when the first class postage rate was 4 cents for the first ounce

 4.  Cup of cold coffee

 5.  Box of tax records

 6.  Instructions for updating my Garmin G.P.S.

 7.  Model of a single-engine plane my husband sold 30 years ago.

 8.  Vocabulary builder I used circa 1960

 9.  Poster showing a space ship, a Barbie car, an astro-lizard and the working title of my parable, "Heroes Arise."

 10.  Telephone so ancient that Ma Bell used to rent it to me on a monthly basis.

 11.  Stack of writing papers, bills and business cards

 12.  Zip drives for a computer I no longer own.

 13.  Screenie Cleanie that is far too dusty to use

 14.  Wind-up computer angel

 15.  Outdated church directories

 16.  Postal receipt for an item mailed to my daughter in 1997

 17.  Diorama of flowers used in lieu of a real bouquet at my wedding in 1975

 18.  Guilded straw anchor given to me by my husband five years before our wedding.

 19.  Address book used before there were area codes

 20.  A thirty-year-old note from my Mom explaining the origin of her middle name.

Desk of Laurel Anne Hill
Desk of Laurel Anne Hill

Visit the website of Laurel Anne Hill (author of "Heroes Arise") at http://www.laurelannehill.com.

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