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Authors for Literacy Event in San Mateo, CA, on September 21, 2013, with Belva Davis, State Senator Jerry Hill, Dr. Joy DeGruy, Laurel Anne Hill, and More!

Attention those in the San Francisco Bay Area! Please  come to the “Authors for Literacy” book signings and readings in San Mateo, CA, on Saturday, September 21, 2013, 10 am – 4 pm. The location will be the Martin Luther King Center at 725 Monte Diablo Avenue. I’ll be reading from my award-winning novel, “Heroes Arise,” at 11:15 am in the Yellow Room. Other authors present will include State Senator Jerry Hill, Belva Davis, Marc Little, Elise Frances Miller, Dr. Joy DeGruy, Rafael Jesus Gonsalez, McHenry Skip Norman, Lian Gouw, Nadia Lataillade, Beth Barany and many more. 

At 2:00 P.M., everyone will take a seat in the main auditorium to hear from Belva Davis (Author of Never in My Wildest Dreams). At 3:00 P.M. we will hear from Dr. Joy DeGruy (Author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome). 

Each year for over 30 years, The North Central Neighborhood Association in San Mateo has held an annual Essay and Poetry Contest (preschool to 12th Grade) celebrating the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The authors scheduled to participate in the upcoming “Authors for Literacy” event supported this contest in 2013.

Go to http://northcentralneighborhoodassociation.org/index.html for more information about San Mateo’s North Central Neighborhood Association.

Warm wishes,

Laurel Anne Hill

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Lindsay Wildlife Museum First Annual Wild About Writers Celebration

Hello all,

I’m posting the following information from my friend and writing mentor, Charlotte Cook.  I’m wild about the “Wild About Writers Celebration!”

Warm wishes,

Laurel Anne Hill (Author of “Heroes Arise”)

A Unique Writers Conference

Lindsay Wildlife Museum
First Annual
Wild About Writers Celebration 
(wildlife-museum.org) 

A one-day intimate, inspiring and unique writers conference

November 2, 2013 at the Lindsay Museum in Walnut Creek, CA (8 am to 6:30 pm)

To benefit both the museum and attending writers 

Keynote speakers include: Malcolm Margolin of Heyday Books and Gary Bogue, former wildlife columnist and Curator Emeritus, Lindsay Wildlife Museum

Presenters include writers and poets and established writing professionals providing workshops and office hours to attending writers as well as Lindsay staff offering their insights into local nature and history topics. Profiles and a calendar will be available online shortly.

Limited attendance: 125

Fee for full day of activities includes workshops, special tours and consulting opportunities, breakfast, lunch and a Wine and Cheese Mingle as well as special surprise gifts and book bags — all included in the $150 per person fee. 

Registration instructions are online. Go to the “Special Events Page” on the Lindsay Wildlife Museum website. (http://wildlife-museum.org/visit/special-events)

We’re adding three contests (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) with offer cash and gift prizes … information to come online. Five finalists in each category will receive special gifts with the winner receiving a $100 cash prize and the opportunity to read at the Wine and Cheese Mingle.

Charlotte Cook
Conference Director
Lindsay Wildlife Museum
First Annual Wild About Writers Celebration (November 2, 2013)
http://wildlife-museum.org/visit/special-events

 

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Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at the World Science Fiction Con on September 1, 2013

 

Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading at the World Science Fiction Con (LoneStarCon) on September 1, 2013

Going to LoneStarCon in San Antonio?  Be sure to attend the Broad Universe RFR.  The readers will include Rachael Acks, Carol Berg, Folly Blaine, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Elektra Hammond, Laurel Anne Hill, Alexis Glynn Latner, Katherine Mankiller, Tracy S. Morris, Roberta Rogow, Kathryn Sullivan, and Barbara Ann Wright.

Broad Universe is an international organization with the primary goal of promoting science fiction, fantasy, and horror written by women.

 

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Author Laurel Anne Hill at “Steam U”

Read Moon-Flame Woman by Laurel Anne Hill
Nominated for an Aurora Award in Canada!

 

Your assignment, if you care to accept it, is to head for the blog of Melanie Karsak: Steam U!  There, my character Cho Ting-Lam (the Moon-Flame Woman in SHANGHAI STEAM) provides tips for unpublished characters.  If you’re a writer, be sure your characters visit the Steam U page, as well.  Besides, Melanie has done a beautiful job of presenting my Steampunk Beyond England writing tutorial.

Go to:  http://melaniekarsak.blogspot.com/2013/08/steamu-author-laurel-anne-hill.html

 

Warm wishes,

Laurel Anne Hill (Author of “Heroes Arise”)

 

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Laurel Anne Hill: Proud Caretaker of a Morsel of Anne Rice’s Past

David & Kevin load the skeleton into our SUV in Los Angeles
Time to add the drawers
This one won't fit.

 

I inched the chest of seven drawers through my kitchen.  Actually, the seven drawers still sat in my garage.  No way could I have moved this sucker without some disassembly.  Even after an ibuprofen fix.   Pull forward and toward the left.  Shimmy right.  Don’t mar the Solarium floor.  At this rate, I’d never reach the back bedroom before dinner.  And the current time was only three hours before noon.

My husband, David, had gone to pick up our dogs at the local kennel.  We’d left the pooches at doggie camp in order to drive to Los Angeles and retrieve this piece of mahogany-finish furniture.  Our daughter didn’t have room for it right now.  Yet the chest had once lived in the home of author Anne Rice in New Orleans.  After Mr. Rice’s passing, my daughter—then attending Tulane University—had purchased the piece at his estate sale.  For twenty years, I’d written science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.  Getting rid of this chest of drawers was not an option.

I reached the threshold between my kitchen and the hallway.  One room down.  More to go.  Then I spied a section of free wallspace in our living room-dining room area.  Might the chest-of-drawers fit there?  And how weird would that be, having bedroom furniture next to our dining room buffet?

Regroup.  I was the proud caretaker of a morsel of Anne Rice’s past.  What an honor.  How neat it would be, displaying in full view a beautiful piece of furniture once used by Mr. Stan Rice.  Plus I wouldn’t have to spend the rest of the morning playing inch worm.

I maneuvered the chest into place before my husband returned home, then installed the drawers, soon lined with the lavender-scented paper I’d saved for a special occasion.  My daughter’s twenty-five-year-old Madame Alexander doll provided a perfect topping.

Would Mr. Rice would have approved of the perfumed liners or the doll?  Would Anne Rice have done a writing cliche:  rolled her eyes?

I had no idea, but my ingenuity delighted my husband.  Now he didn’t have to help me squeeze the furniture into one of the back bedrooms, and dinner would stay on schedule.  No ibuprofen needed.

Warm wishes,

Laurel Anne Hill (Author of “Heroes Arise”)

Welcome to your new home!