Laurel Anne Hill

Archives for March 2019

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Award-Winning Author Laurel Anne Hill Headed for Clockwork Alchemy 2019

Spring’s arriving and I’m off to Clockwork Alchemy 2019, the San Francisco area’s own steampunk convention. Clockwork Alchemy celebrates music, makers, dancing, writing, crafting, fashion, and fun related to steampunk. Date and location: March 22-24, at the Hyatt Regency SFO in Burlingame, CA.

I’ve not attended Clockwork Alchemy before, so I’m truly excited. Even better, I won’t need to haul my travel trunk onto an airship to get there. An ordinary carriage will suffice.

Here’s my schedule of events:

Friday, 2 pm—Sensitivity in Steampunk (Panel)
Saturday, 10 am—Amazing Steampunk Devices (Panel)
Saturday, 2 pm—Signing at my table in Author Alley*
Saturday, 4 pm—The Weird West and Suspending Disbelief (Panel)

*Please note that I’ll be spending many other hours in Author Alley, selling and signing my books.

Feel free to drop by and chat. And for you writers, let me tell you about the Literary Stage at the San Mateo County Fair. The deadline for entering their writing contests is April 1, 2019. 

With warm wishes,

Laurel Anne Hill
(Author of “The Engine Woman’s Light,” the spirits-meet-steampunk winner of 12 honors and awards.)

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Happy Birthday, Spirit of David I. Hill: My “Hero” Forever!

David and Laurel: An Eternal Love

 

Since medieval times, March 25th has been known as Lady Day. The name comes from the medieval Church’s celebration of the Annunciation, which many Christians traditionally have believed was the moment the archangel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would bear a son. My beloved David’s mom was raised Catholic. No surprise he frequently mentioned, in our early years together, that he was born on Lady Day.

I was a “late firecracker” born one day after the Fourth of July. Belated independence and mutual dependency merged when this lady in love married her “hero.” David and I made a fantastic combination in so many ways. He would have been 88 years old this month.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAVID! We shared a wild ride together. Do you remember when sons David, Jim and John threw Minute Rice at our wedding in Mariposa, California, in 1975? We’d only told them about our plans the night before. Remember when our daughter, Alicia, was born and the staff at Kaiser Hospital thought you were the grandfather? And remember when I got your wheelchair stuck on that railroad track a few years ago, and we heard the horn of an approaching diesel train?  And how the hovering shadow of your death from cancer didn’t keep you from finding typos in my soon-to-be released novel, “The Engine Woman’s Light?” Sand Hill Review Press did the last-minute corrections just in time, thanks to you. 

We will be together again, my love, hopefully well AFTER I get my next novel published, another story we worked on together. I feel compelled to see that one in print.