Los Angeles is more than a Mecca for screenplay writers. It is home to a wealth of award-winning and best-selling literary authors of many disciplines from children’s books, to young adult, fiction, non-fiction, self-help, memoirs, thrillers, science-fiction, fantasy, fine literature and much more. The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society is proud to call many of them members and is pleased to present a sampling who will read from their latest works and have first editions available for purchase and autograph.

Featuring (in alphabetical order, not order of appearance):

Dawn Anderson – “Dawn Awakens”
Dawn Marie Anderson has worked in the Fashion and Entertainment Industries and in the Performing Arts as a dancer, actress and singer. She became a Reiki Practitioner and lives in Los Angeles, California, where she currently works on healing and the arts.

Deborah Chesher – “Everybody I Shot Is Dead”
Deborah pays tribute to forty-eight musicians she shot in Vancouver and Los Angeles between 1974 and 1979, who have since passed away. Chesher’s collection of over four hundred of her never-before-seen iconic photographs is accompanied by biographies and her personal reflections of a time when music was the magic that drove a generation.

Ace Antonio Hall – “In My Eyes” 
Ace is Vice-President of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. He is an actor, poet, music producer, and former NYC English teacher. He is currently filming in his first lead role on a docudrama feature film.

Gillian Lee Hutshing– Is the Author, Illustrator of children's picture book, “Sparky the Wonderfish: A story of how love creates magic”.  As a feature film editor in Los Angeles for over twenty five years, Gillian has worked with acclaimed directors Sir Ridley Scott, Peter Weir, Kevin Costner, among others. She has been a featured author and title at the Book Expo America and has been repeatedly featured at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and the West Hollywood Book Fair. Ms. Hutshing has also had numerous signings at Barnes & Noble Booksellers and Borders Bookstores throughout California.

Ann Wilmer-Lasky – “The Seasons of Sam Rock”
Ann is no stranger to the rugged landscapes and unstable ground described in her other novel, "The Chronicles of Acqueria: Blood Moon Treachery". Having spent time in the deserts of Arizona, she now lives in sunny, shaky southern California where she writes this YA soft sci-fi/fantasy series.

Leslie Ann Moore – “Griffin’s Daughter”
Leslie was named 2008 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Winner for Best First Fiction. Griffin's Shadow, the second book in the trilogy series, has been officially endorsed by both Publisher's Weekly and The Library Journal.

Nora Novak – “Art Damaged”
Nora  is a mixed media artist, actress and writer. Novak has worked in both commercial galleries and a contemporary art museum.

Deborah Pratt – “The Vision Quest Trilogy”
Deborah  is a five-time Emmy nominee, a Golden Globe nominee, and the recipient of The Lillian Gish Award from Women in Film, The Angel Award, The Golden Block Award, and Six B.E.N. Awards.

Tony N. Todaro – “The Xander Hunt Chronicles: What Comes Around, The Eyes of God”
Tony is Co-founder and President of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. He is a professional consultant at Los Angeles Valley College in the IDEAS and EITC groups. The Xander Hunt Chronicles are a series of futuristic crime novels set in New San Angeles after the Big Quake has hit. Our hero is a senior crimes investigator with Fed Corp, who is feeling the burden of his cases and the decades of punishment that his body has taken.