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Wine, Women, Whispers
By Alon Mintz

Designed and Edited by Ina Hillebrandt

Reviews, Excerpts
Press Release

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!

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

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. :-)

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.

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!

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.
 

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:

Saturday mornings
10-noon
.
De-tails

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.

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

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:

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!

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.

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
 

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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...

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.
 

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

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!

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

Senior (and younger adults) programs in West Los Angeles
Grief Lifters™
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.

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.
 

De-tails on the Writers Store site

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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.
 

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.

De-tails on the flyer.

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."

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

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