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Scroll down and use links for
de-tails on events listed

Pawpress proudly announces our new book

Wine, Women, Whispers
By Alon Mintz

Designed and Edited by Ina Hillebrandt

Reviews, Excerpts
Press Release

New Series

Memoir Writing Workshop by Ina


At the enchanting
AAA Booksellers on the Bridge at the Castle at the Green, Pasadena, CA

June 17-Aug. 19
Thursdays 7-9 pm

Are you finally ready to take the plunge?  Have the relatives been driving you to distraction?

Now's the time to find out how to start, how to organize and how to enliven the stories of your life that only you can tell!

For de-tails, click here. Sign up before June 14 to insure a space, and get our special early bird discount!

Readings in the beautiful California Sate historic register's
Castle Green
in Pasadena

June 6, 1-5 pm
99 Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91106
Get directions
 

Ina will be doing readings from her books, including Memoir writing tips from How to Write Your Memoirs.

Enjoy a rare treat -- tour the famous
Castle Green -- and join us for a featured presentation and book signing by Ina. Info: AAA Booksellers at The Gallery at the Castle Green. Toour fee is $20. Refreshments will be served at the book signing.
Info: (310) 279-0476

Lillian Brummet's Conscious  Discussions

Radio Podcast

May 20
10--11 am PDT

Did you miss it? No worries. The show is archived:

http://www.blogtalkradio.
com/
consciousdiscussions/
2010/05/20/pawprints-literacy-plus-org

 

Ina was pleased to be the featured guest on Conscious Discussions, hosted by Lillian Brummet. About the show...

Ina Hillebrandt is here today to talk about childhood literacy. She is the author of Pawprints - an uplifting collection of short "tails" about close encounters of the furry kind. This book project grew into a literacy program that began as a workshop for the Jane Goodall Institute. Ina is also the president of Pawpress and founder of the Pawprints Literacy Plus organization. Find today’s guest at: www.InasPawprints.com & the host at: www.brummet.ca

Fun is a serious topic.

http://onepersonsviews.
blogspot.com/

 

For a good read by a -- gasp --  high level military man, Larry N. Beard, Col. (Ret.) US Army, check out this blog. Larry's mind is far-ranging, and he is very concerned these days about literacy for vets. Grapevine says he will be mentioning a book or two of Ina's in an upcoming piece, but his work and his writing to be commended anyway. :-)

Authors Read Podcast  Featuring Readings by Ina from Pawprints
...Tails of close encounters of the Furry Kind

April 9, 9-9:15am PDT. Call-ins invited!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
authorsread/2010/04/09/
ina-hillebrandt--pawprints



The show will also be archived for anytime listening

 

 

Ina is pleased to be appearing with Canada-based author and talk show host Lillian Brummet on her internationally renowned show Authors Read. Ina will be reading from her book of wry observations on human meetups with 2- and 4-legged critters. The show also will have lively discussions between host Lillian Brummet and Ina.

Write-in guests are welcome!
Check the link for details on how to get on air with your thoughts or questions.

Ms. Brummet also hosts a show called Conscious Discussions, featuring ideas about how we can live in equilibrium with the planet. Ina will be appearing on that show as well, on May 20. Check here for de-tails. Please also take a look at Lillian and husband Dave's inspiring book Trash Talk.



New Footprints Weekly time and date

 

Our weekly meeting of the Footprints Writing Club has been changed. Beginning April 1 we will meet Thursdays, 9:30-11:30, at the Felicia Mahood Multipurpose Center on Santa Monica Blvd. and Corinth, in West L.A. No fooling!

 New!
Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club

http://www.tribecafilm.
com/

 

This is where Ina wishes she could be this weekend!

If you're lucky enough to live in New York (yes, even with all the crummy weather), The Tribeca Film Festival has some neat news. Starting Saturday, Mar. 6, they are running a super kids film series, Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club, with fab films and fun happenings. Check out de-tails on the link.
 

Radio Podcast

Listen on the web, or download, free!*

Memoir Writing Tips and a few laughs

Featuring Ina,
the Memoir Coach

Guest on WriteOn! The writing show for writers, sponsored by IWOSC**

Interview Segment
Writing Tips
 

Using creative writing in memoir?

Find out what Ina's talking about and how the creativity in memoir method could help you!

Tune in when you like! Motivational speaker and authors' PR guy John Seeley interviews Ina, and then Ina joins Gary Young, award winning playwright and author, in a quickie segment on tips for writers. You can find both shows at:


 

* © John Seeley, Gary Young and Ina Hillebrandt. Short sections may be reproduced for review purposes. May not be excerpted and repackaged in any media for commercial purposes.
**
Independent Writers of Southern California
SATURDAYS
JAN. 9-MAR. 13 2010

Saturday mornings
10-noon
.
De-tails

SPACE IS LIMITED
Sign up early to reserve your place!

Sign up by Dec 15 for
An Early Bird Discount!

Got a story to tell? Want help getting started? Getting organized?

Whether you're writing for family and friends or the world at large, sign up for the Footprints Writing Club. You'll find lively folks, fascinating stories, fun writing excursions and motivation!

Led by Ina, and using her specially designed Ina's Weird Prompts to get your mind's creative channels wide open!

Very small class ensures you get attention and time to get feedback as you develop your project!
 


MONDAY, NOV. 23 7:30-9:00 pm

Editors -- Don't let the books you write leave home without one!

If you want to get picked for a book deal from among the huge crowd, and if you want to create a better book in a world where publishing houses depend on authors for final prose.

Veterans Memorial Building
4117 Overland (at Culver Boulevard)
Culver City
Parking free, enter on Culver
Reservations required. Deadline is noon Monday, Nov. 23.
Call in CA
(877)799-7483, or
e-mail info@iwosc.org

 

Join Ina as she moderates a panel of Editing Experts for IWOSC. In today's publishing world, getting your own editor is invaluable! Our panel will show you how to greatly enhance the chances of selling your book, and the potential to  create a prize winner!

Panelists include:

Ron Kenner. An author himself, since founding RKedit, www.rkedit.com,  Ron has edited more than seventy-five published books, including several winners of prestigious literary prizes.

Flo Selfman. As owner of Selfman & Others PR, Flo has handled celebrities, theatre and arts events, and book and author tours for more than twenty years. A self-proclaimed “professional nit-picker,” Flo gets the bugs out of scripts, manuscripts, and other business and professional documents.

Roberta Edgar. For over 20 years, in addition to writing screenplays and treatments, Roberta has been ghostwriting and editing nonfiction books, particularly memoirs and autobiographies. She blogs on journaling and memoir (www.robertaedgar.wordpress.com)and writes articles, web content, biographical profiles, query letters, and a wide range of business material.

Robin Quinn is an editor of over 250 books including the best-selling The Detox Solution, the award-winning Soul-Full Eating, and the newly released Celebrity Leverage.

Monica Faulkner. As an editor and publishing consultant, my goal is to help writers solve any problems that may be keeping their books from reaching their greatest creative potential – and their rightful place in today’s competitive publishing market.

Lisa Marguerite Mora is a freelance editor, prize winning poet and writing teacher.

November 2009

Private Memoir Writing Workshop

Ina will be holding a mini How to Write Your Memoirs workshop for the Daughters of the American Revolution

For information on setting up a workshop for your group, contact us at: annap@InasPawprints.com

Monday, July 29

PANEL ON WRITING BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS

7:30 to 9 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Building
4117 Overland (at Culver Boulevard)
Culver City
Parking free, enter on Culver
Reservations required. Deadline is noon Monday, July 29.
Call in CA
(877)799-7483, or
e-mail info@iwosc.org

Every life tells a story!

Whether you're thinking of putting the story of your own life down on paper, or writing a profile of a historical or celebrity figure you've long admired — or just one of the millions of readers who devour books on history or Hollywood — this panel is for you.

Moderator: Telly Davidson — film and TV critic
Panelists: DIGBY DIEHL, NAT SEGALOFF, INA HILLEBRANDT, DIANNE De La VEGA, and JENNIFER SKY BAND.

For details on the program and panel please click the logo:

Saturday, July 29
10-4
Ventura

 
CELEBRATE THE WRITTEN WORD -- ON THE BEACH!

Join Ina and IWOSC at the 4th Annual Ventura Festival of Books
The festival includes:
Writing seminars; panel discussions; readings; author presentations; award ceremony for the winners of the CLAS (California Literary Arts) Memoir Writing Contest; silent auction. Exhibits feature authors, publishers, book sellers, writers organizations, and vendors.
Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach

450 East Harbor Blvd. Ventura, CA 93001
Thursday, July 23
2:30-3:30 p.m.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library
17906 S. Avalon
Carson, CA

Attention Kids in Middle School--Join Ina for a Pawprints Literacy Plus Creative Writing and Kindness to Animals program. Hear stories from "Pawprints," the book kids like you read to their parents, and then write your own! It's fun, and easier than you think!

Articles by and about Ina

New! Tips 1-3 on opening those mental doors, and starting your memoirs or fiction project. Published in SelfGrowth.com online self-improvement expert site. More in series coming. Check here for information.

Boardroom.com's BottomLine publications interview with Ina on writing memoirs, and publishing tips

Practical tools for coping with the loss of a loved one: for TIAA/CREF

MORE ON INA: GO TO MEDIA

More on writing tips: free, coaching and classes, please scroll down or hit one of the lavender writing buttons on the right.

See Ina featured
in Videos
from Author Views,
now on YouTube

Check PBS in your area for other video
see below

Find out how Pawprints turned from a gaggle of squirrels on Ina's lap into a book and literacy  program

Memoirs books and stories of salty senior students
 

Book Launch Party!Sunday, June 21
2:30-5:00
Includes open mic!
Hosted by
Our Poetic Souls
Address and other details

Join Pawpress and Ina in toasting Author Chrystine Julian as we celebrate the birth of her new book of provocative, entertaining and sensual books ---
Meandering Mindfulness... Poems from the place where wander and wonder merge.




 
ENCHANT AN AGENT!
Monday, June 1
10:15-noon
Felicia Mahood Sr. MultiPurpose Center
11338 Santa Monica Blvd.
LA, CA 90025

Budding author? Want to get published by a traditional publisher? First step, snare an agent. Not so easy, eh? Well, our workshop Monday will focus on how to prepare yourself. Do homework on what other books yours comes close to, and bring a brief sample of your book. Plus, think of the audience your book would attract.

July 23

2:30-3:30 p.m.
 

Pawprints Literacy Plus Creative Writing and Kindness to Animals program for middle school age youth, at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library in Carson, CA


Ina Silvert Hillebrandt's Facebook profile
 

OK, so many people said how can you not be on Facebook Ina finally caved. You can find her there sometimes, and see friends and their doings. And to her surprise, it's fun!

Ina is pleased to be included in the online organization SelfGrowth.com, featuring experts with information and tools to help individuals enrich their personal and professional lives  

http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/
ina_hillebrandt.html

LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Saturday, April 25
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 26
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

LA Times Festival of Books

Look for Ina at the IWOSC Booth 10-noon this Sunday.

And do come to the Festival. It's great for everyone who reads books or writes them.

Location
UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Google Map...                          Event Map...

Mar. 30, 2009

7:30 to 9 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Building
4117 Overland (at Culver Boulevard)
Culver City
Parking free, enter on Culver
Reservations required. Deadline is noon Monday, March 30. Call in CA (877)
799-7483, or e-mail info@iwosc.org

IWOSC PANEL -- “A Writer’s Platform: The Jumping-off Place for Success.”
Join Ina and a talented panel for IWOSC, Independent Writers of Southern California Let’s say you want to write a book on a certain topic. And speak about it. But you’re not well-known yet. How do you reach that place of expertise so that you’re called upon as The Expert? How do you become the one sought out by the public and the media? Learn how at IWOSC’s March meeting.
 

Mar. 19, 2009    
   3-4 pm

Pawprints Literacy Plus Creative Writing and Kindness to Animals program for middle school age youth, at the Hollydale Public Library in Southgate


Now available:

Boardroom.com/ Retirement print and online Dec. 2008 issue

Ina is featured memoir coach, in an article about creating and publishing your  memoirs, based on classes and her book, How to Write Your Memoirs...Fun Prompts to Make Writing...and Reading Your Life Stories a Pleasure!


Radio Podcast
Coming Online soon

Stay tuned for the link.

Ina featured guest on
radio podcast for writers. Irreverent hosts: John Seeley, getunstuck.com, and Gary Young, www.lossandfound.com, for Independent Writers of Southern California. Ina's topic: memoir writing secrets, plus writing tips segment for all writers

Mondays, ongoing
9:15-10:15

Senior (and younger adults) programs in West Los Angeles
Grief Lifters™
Felicia Mahood
11338 Santa Monica Blvd.
LA, CA 90025
 

Mondays, ongoing 10:15-noon

Felicia Mahood
11338 Santa Monica Blvd.
LA, CA 90025

 

 

Got a story to tell? Stumped about where to begin? Come to

Ina's Memoir Writing Clubs for Grownups™ -- join award winning writers who never wrote before, along with folks who have!

Fun, and really helps you get started organizing those scraps of paper!

PBS and Online    
Check for PBS listings in your area.*

Grief Lifters with Ina in  www.Intelecom.org
class series, "Our Families, Ourselves," episode #17. Scroll down for more info.

CALL UPON INA FOR PRIVATE COACHING
In person
By phone
Virtual
MEMOIR WRITING
PUBLISHING
TEACHING MEMOIR WRITING
Ina is now available to help you organize and write your own book, or to help others write theirs.
One-on-one in person or by phone coaching programs.
Tips to get started, stay motivated, organize, and more. And have fun!!
Contact Ina directly for information: InaH@InasPawprints.com
Feb. 6, 2008 - Wed. afternoons through Mar. 5, 2008
Read about our pilot program at UCLA -- available for other universities, high schools and senior centers

NEW!
The Living History Project at UCLA. Program for building communication and understanding across generations. Press Release
NEWER! Media Story
NEWEST! Photos and Story
Jan. 12, 2008    
   2-4 pm
Memoir Writing Workshop for WNBA (Women's National Book Association-LA).
At The Writers' Store
(Click StoryLink icon on left).
Jan. 17, 2008    
   3-4 pm
Pawprints Literacy Plus Creative Writing and Kindness to Animals program for middle school age youth, at the Hollydale Public Library in Southgate
Jan. 25, 2008
  3-4:00 pm
Pawprints Literacy Plus Creative Writing for grades 6 and up, at the Rowland Heights Library
Jan. 31, 2008 Pawprints Literacy Plus Creative Writing at the Temple City Library
Feb. 2, 2008
   2-3:30 pm
Creative Writing  for teens at the
La Mirada Public Library
  Senior (and younger adults) programs in West Los Angeles
Grief Lifters™
Ina's Writing Clubs



To download flyers with more information about ongoing
Grief Lifters workshops
Monday mornings in Los Angeles, click the link above.

To find out about sponsor possibilities or to set up a program for your organization, contact us at InaH@InasPawprints.com.


New via the 'net and tv!
We are very pleased to report that Intelecom.org, renowned online educational program producers, has included our work in Grief Lifters™, Ina's program aimed at helping people find ways to get through and beyond the loss of a spouse, in a segment in their college course series on aging. Available by subscription online at Intelecom.org.

*PBS The Intelecom segment, #17, in the series, "Our Families, Ourselves," is also appearing on PBS stations in various parts of the U.S. Check listings in your area, or request your local station to contact Intelecom.org about ordering the program. Intelecom has been providing programming to  colleges and universities for thirty years.
 

 


Did you miss our previous workshop samplers at Dutton's et. al.? Come experience a lively, tip-filled  interactive Memoir Writing Workshop by Ina.

"Using Fiction in Memoir Writing -- No Kidding!"

DATE: Jan. 12
PLACE:  The Writers' Store
TIME:   2:00-4:00 p.m.

De-tails on the Writers Store site

Flyer

 

 

See flier enlarged

Read media story about the program

See photos


We are pleased to announce a new program ...

The Living History Project at UCLA

  • Promoting intergenerational understanding and communication
     

  • Recording oral histories and the intergenerational experience for the web and other media

A program conceived as a part of the UCLA student-designed curriculum, this series is incorporated within the university's Center for Community Learning programs. Student participants will be interacting with our Footprints Writing Clubs (formerly "Pawprints Writing Clubs") seniors. Seniors will have a chance to tell their life stories, both in written and oral form. Interactions will be both in group and one-on-one form. Students receive course credit and experience in community service learning.

If you are a senior, 55+, and wish to become a part of history, and learn/teach the "younger generation, please read the flyer to see how to participate.

UPDATE: FEB. 3 -- Sorry, our classes are filled. For more info on the program, read the press release.

OUR THANKS TO the Donald A. Strauss Foundation for their generous grant to help make this program possible. We are grateful also for support from the Hillel at UCLA, Kathy O’Bryne, Director of the UCLA Center for Community Learning, and Ellen Gaines, Director of the Felicia Mahood Senior Multipurpose Center of The City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.
 


Available for appearances, locally, nationally and internationally

The Un-Workshops
for Health Care providers

We also offer Humor Un-Workshops --
Comic Release
  -- to help us all lighten up in our very stressful world. These are for personal and professional growth, stress reduction, improved communication with others. We have been conducting these Un-Workshops for more than fifteen years for community groups and businesses such as SEARS and Citicorp.
 

Are you interested in banishing the "I'm not creative" monster? Call us about Ina's
Creativity Un-Workshop -- Idea Magic . Find out why an HR director from Banana Republic said, "After Idea Magic, I had a dream, and I was going through a door. The next day, I found myself thinking about problems in a whole new, creative way."
 

Contact us if you would like information about booking Ina for any of our writing or Un-Workshops for your organization or business. Call us for information. (310) 471-5048, or send an e-mail to Annap@InasPawprints.com.
 

Pawprints Literacy Plus
Young People's Programs



Scroll down to read more about adult programming in libraries, and librarian review.

Library programs for young people have been planned for 2008. January, in Los Angeles, to dovetail with LA County Library celebrations of Meg Cabot's upcoming novel Princess Mia. One hour programs features book discussions and creative writing exercises. The programs are  available for young people grades 1-12.  Scroll down for dates and times.


School programs (after school, intersession options as well as teacher coaching and classroom) available. Please click here for info.

New from Pawpress! We're expanding our publishing services in response to author requests. Find out more by clicking the button.

Pawpress Author Services
 

By Ina, The "'Pawprints' FURRY MEMOIR Lady"

KEYWORDS: FUN! and
You can do this!

  • Do you have scraps of paper sitting in an old shoe box?
     
  • Have you thought you'd like to get those scraps organized, and maybe the family will quit bugging you?
     
  • Or are you a writer new to the memoir form?

Then You Owe it to Yourself!   

Capture Your Memoirs, or Invent Some!

Comments from attendees....

"This class shows us how to construct something tangible out of intangible feelings. It's kind of how to make sense out of a bunch of 'mishmoshy' feelings." Jane Madeline

"You'll fall in love with Ina. She really intuits what you need." Sophie Chudacoff

"I look forward to this class all week!" Howard Westley

"Ina has a special gift ..we only knew four people (out of 65), but we and everybody else felt very comfortable opening up and reading aloud." E. Golan

 

Special for seniors: ongoing free workshops Monday mornings in Los Angeles.

Ongoing Series of Memoir Writing Classes by Ina. Featuring the unique Ina's Weird Prompts™ as well as "How to Write Your Memoirs," with special exercises to lighten up and inspire you!  

Here's your chance to join Ina and a group of kindred souls in a warm, open atmosphere, dedicated to help you overcome those blocks, learn new techniques for recalling memories, and organizing and writing them.

Create a treasure for family, friends and fans who don't know you yet, but will savor your writing! Spaces are limited!

Other classes for adults of all ages.

WNBA (Women's National Book Association) Jan. 13, in Los Angeles. Location to be announced. Time: 3-7 pm. Is it OK to use fiction in memoirs? What are Ina's Weird Prompts™? Come and find out. Pot luck following lively interactive session on how to write and structure memoirs.

More info, click here. See press release.

New Library Writing Programs: Memoirs and Fiction for Adults, Reading, Creative Writing for Youth -- plus Kindness to Animals.

Look for Ina at the LA County Libraries in January and February, 2008. She'll be conducting creative writing and reading workshops for children from grades 1-12. Programs are tied to the coming novel by Meg Cabot, Princess Mia. Programs are free to participants. Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Public Libraries. Youth program dates sponsored by the L.A.County Libraries below. The main email address of the L.A. County Public Libraries is http://www.colapublib.org/. You can also click links in our date list below for address, hours, etc. of each library.

Jan. 17, 2008, 3-4 pm: Hollydale Public Library, middle school
Jan. 25, 3-4 pm: Rowland Heights Library, middle school & up
Jan. 31, 5-6:30: Temple City Library, youth book club members
Feb. 2, 2-3:30: La Mirada Library. Creative Writing for Teens

More sessions for youth and adults are being planned in libraries throughout the state. See "Library Book Report" below.

LIBRARY "BOOK REPORT"

We are pleased to report that we had a full house (65) at Ina's recent Memoir Writing Workshop sponsored by the Burbank Public Library. People who came included an Emmy Award winning comedy writer, a creative writing teacher with an MFA in her field, actors, and folks from many other walks of life, countries and eras.

Many thanks to  Program and Publicity whiz, Louise Paziak, and staff for all their support. Thanks also to Ms. Paziak for writing Ina:

"I wanted to thank you for providing our patrons with a wonderfully creative afternoon. It was exhilarating to see such a diverse group of people turning out for the class and determined to improve their writing...Creative writing is still vitally important in this era of text messaging and cell phones. Everyone had a story to tell and it was really fascinating to listen to them share their memories. I thoroughly enjoyed sitting in on your class.”
 

COMING: Contact us about our READ program connection, bringing therapy dogs into libraries and classrooms, along with our programs. Objective: help youngsters gain confidence and skills in reading and creative writing, plus learn the importance of kindness to animals. We are very pleased to be able to plan programs that tie the goals of READ with our Pawprints goals for young people.
Mark your calendars!
Come experience a sample
Memoir Writing Workshop by Ina.
Using Fiction in Memoir Writing -- No Kidding!

DATE: Oct. 14
PLACE:  DUTTON'S BOOKSTORE
TIME:   2:00-4:00 p.m.

De-tails on the flyer.

Oct. 6th and 7th

Northern California Independent
Booksellers Association

Gonna be in the Bay Area? Plan to check out the Publishers' Association of Los Angeles booth (PA-LA.org, an affiliate of PMA, national Publishers Marketing Association), at the NCIBA, at the Oakland Convention Center.  Pawpress and Ina will be there holding the fort along with Gil Sperry, Author, "Mariachi for Gringos."


10 am-6:00 pm
PLACE: West Hollywood Park
  647 N. San Vicente Blvd.

(click logo to find maps and more about the day's exciting events, etc.)

Pawpress/Pawprints
Booth Readings Schedule.
Readings from Award Winning "Stories From The Heart," "Pawprints," and
"Sensual Spirit," plus new, unpublished works

11:00-11:15 Louis Weinstein
Claudia Parker
12:00-12:15 Chrystine Julian
“Miss Charlotte”
1:00-1:15 Moty Zahavi
Louis Weinstein
2:00-2:15 Ina Hillebrandt
Chrystine Julian
3:00-3:15 Laurel Shapiro
Eleanor Howard
4:00-4:15 "Miss Charlotte"


It's that time of year again! Come join us at our booth 10:00-6:00* Hourly readings and book signings from 11-4 

Pawpress/Pawprints Literacy Plus
Booth #12F, and ....

Ina's appearing throughout the day at
different events:

10-12:00  Featured Author Ina Hillebrandt
WNBA BOOTH  #9

With Pawpress authors Chrystine Julian and
Laurel Shapiro. Audience participation, "Murder by Laurel" and Dragon Flying with Chrystine. Mini-memoir writing workshop by Ina.  Readings, Signings from "Pawprints," "How to Write Your Memoirs," "Stories From the Heart," "Sensual Spirit." 
 1:00-1:45 Ina will be a panelist on, "Reach for Your Dream: Prepare for Publication the Professional Way." Moderated by award winning author and book marketing expert Carolyn Howard-Johnson. Other panelists include: June Casagrande, Christopher Meeks, Elizabeth Pomeroy. Of interest to any professional who wants to increase profitability and credibility.
In the Writers' Pavilion
2:00-2:15 Ina will share reading/signing time with Chrystine Julian
Pawpress Booth #12F
Readings and Signings from Ina's award winning "Pawprints" and Chrystine's new Pawpress book, "Sensual Spirit," called "Rapturous" by noted poet Gayle Brandeis.
4:45-5:45 Robertson Coffee House Stage
With The Pawprints Players™



 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

 

 

 

Readings will be from Pawpress's new books, and our imprint's standards, and authors will be signing. You'll also be meeting new authors whose works will be published in our next "Stories From The Heart" volume:

'Pawprints' by Ina Hillebrandt, purr-fect pet humor gift book to aMUSE kids and adults, age 6-106

Murders, Memoirs and Fairy Tales for Grownups™

Lively tales from the mild to the frisky!

Take a flying carpet ride with new Pawpress author Chrystine Julian.

See why when you ride dragons, you fly!

If you haven't heard about ranunculuses, or Nose Fur, now is the time.

Ina will also share some new, pre-publication pieces.

MORE Events, Programs, books and goodies from Pawpress, Pawprints Writing Clubs and Ina


 

Don't miss the goodies in our online shop! Great fun tees for all ages, even the family dog. And tools for writers, including journals and mousepads.

Click the mug on your left!

performers

FEMALES ON FIRE WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL

DATE: SAT., AUGUST 25
TIMES: Festival is 10:00 am-6:00 pm.
PLACE: WOODLEY PARK, 6340 Woodley Avenue, Encino, CA 91406 MAP
WHAT: A lively, exciting event celebrating and featuring women in music and other arts. Live bands all day, Spoken Word, Workshops. Special area for kids! It's going to be a great day. Join us, even if you're of another gender's persuasion! Ina at the Healing Arts pavillion doing a "Write Yourself Sane!"™ workshop, and at the poets' booth hosted by Pawpress author Chrystine Julian.

PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT ANIMAL RESCUE  * Learn more about the event

 

IWOSC, Independent Writers of Southern California, offered a panel on "The Art of Storytelling" spring of this year.

Our INA HILLEBRANDT served on the panel, in her role using the art of storytelling with writers. Her focus was on finding your own voice, self-expression, and performing your stories.

For more info about this and other IWOSC events, check the recent newsletter reprinted on our site, click the link: www.InasPawprints.com/
IWOSC_STORYTELLING_PANEL.htm


For more information on IWOSC, check out their website, www.IWOSC.org.
Click here to find out more!

KCBS All News 740 program

Our recent appearance at the KCBS Health and Wellness Event was wonderful fun. If you missed it, you can still catch Ina at the WEHO and Dutton events, coming up soon! Catch new Pawpress author Chrystine Julian, too, at WEHO. She'll be  reading from her remarkable book, Sensual Spirit.

Check flyer to see what we did!  

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