WANTED: WRITERS!, A Literary Reading Series at the Rumor Mill

Special Sisters-in-Crime Edition

Wednesday, 8/04/2010 from 7:30-10:00 pm

This seventh edition of WANTED: WRITERS! brings together three writers published for the first time, members of Sisters-in-Crime, each reading a story from the recently published MURDER IN LA-LA LAND. There will be a book signing by the authors after the readings.

KATHY KINGSTON is a transplanted New Yorker who has variously worked as a bankteller, fashion model, grocery store cashier and, for the past twenty-seven years, as an award-winning landscape contractor. Relatively late in life, she decided to get serious about writing and joined Sisters-in-Crime. Having her story “This I Know” accepted for their MURDER IN LA-LA LAND anthology made her dream of becoming a published writer come true. She is also working on a novel-in-progress, but the short story remains her favorite literary form. Kathy  lives in Venice, CA with a huge stack of books, a very tall husband (a veritable mountain of a man), a son who is a music producer, a fashion model daughter, one very silly cat, and two dogs. “This I Know,” the story she will be reading Wednesday night takes place in the California high desert during a Halloween party. The hostess discovers there are monsters on the prowl, some imagined, some very, very real.

DONNA MAY, after years of exile in Boston (her mother, raised in Brentwood had followed her husband there) returned to native soil. Working on the East Coast as an English teacher and a theatrical costume designer, it one day came to her that she was shoveling way too much snow. So, she got smart and returned to Los Angeles. For the past fifteen years, she has worked in the entertainment industry on production crews for popular television shows like “E.R.” and “Heroes.” Wednesday she will be reading her first published work, “The Acquisition,” from the anthology, MURDER IN LA-LA LAND. “The Acquisition” is set in the world of fine art, and is the story of Hilda Prudhomme, a restorer of artifacts and sculpture from all over the world. One recently acquired Getty acquisition holds a particular fascination for her; staring at it, she is drawn into a world of dark secrets…

GABRIELA VAZQUEZ is a graduate of Pomona College and holds a Certificate in Feature Film Writing from the UCLA Writer's program. Her screenplay, "Wrestling with Angels," won third place in the Diane Thomas Screenwriting Awards competition. In her short story, "Average Monster," which she will be reading tonight,  Private Investigator Tom Wells searches for a serial killer who is so ordinary, so average, that no one seems able to describe him.

WANTED: WRITERS! is a forum dedicated to authors reading from both published works and original works-in-progress. Authors interested in giving voice to their writing— short stories, novels, essays, plays or poetry—should sign-up on our registration sheet or contact: Joe Staats * 310-889-6172

THE RUMOR MILL, a coffeehouse/gallery/performance space

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