2013 Authors Tours, Usa - Launch & Inaugural Book Signing - Webster's Fine StationeryNEW

Authors Tours USA - launch & inaugural book signing.� Webster's Fine Stationery, an independently-owned family business with a reputation for supporting local artisans and authors, is the host venue for this event.� The official launch Authors Tour USA� will feature four authors who reside in the Greater Pasadena area, including.

Date
Saturday, March 30, 2013 from 3pm to 5 pm

Location
Webster's Fine Stationery, 2450 n. Lake Avenue, Altadena, CA 91001
(between marcheta & mariposa � free parking in back lot)

Pasadena
Authors Tour USA�, a Pasadena-based organized, co-founded by Wendy Anderson and La Quetta Shamblee was created to provide marketing, networking and promotional support for published authors, with a focus on self-published authors small, independent publishing companies.

According to Anderson: Authors Tour US�, developed as a natural expansion of the Authors' Corner section of The Artisan Faire held at historic Santa Anita Race Track in November 2012, Authors Tour USA� is a vehicle for authors to promote their published works."

"What is exciting," says Shamblee, "Authors Tour USA� has already attracted authors from coast to coast in California, Nevada, Massachusetts, Virginia, Texas, and also Puerto Rico."


ADRIANNE HALL, (Monrovia native):� In her first novel, Thresholds, the underlying message is, "Everyone has a secret" and some of those secrets cross over the threshold to being outright lies. Winter Bernard and Carley DeVries are two college co-eds who, while harboring their own deep dark secrets, befriend each other and through a series of heroic events find themselves embroiled in unfolding the life-altering truth about another co-ed's tragic death. Throughout the twists and turns that their lives take, the characters in THRESHOLDS come face to face with the realization that nobody really knows the impact that secrets and lies will have, whether or not they are discovered.� (Fiction)

KOJI STEVEN SAKAI, (Pasadena native) has four screenplays, which became feature films: Haunted Highway (2006), The People I've Slept With (2009),Monster & Me (2012), and Chink (2012). He also served as a producer on The People I've Slept With and Chink . Most recently, his feature length screenplay, Romeo, Juliet, & Rosaline, was optioned by Amazon Studios. (Screenplay).�� His project, My Imaginary Boyfriend, that he wrote with Emily Brauer Rogers was accepted to Project Catalyst at the 2013 29th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival!

Although he doesn't have a book, he will be providing invaluable information about his process and success in having his screenplays produced as feature films.

CHRISTINA HAMLETT, (Pasadena). Screenwriting for Teens is the second film book Hamlett has written specifically for the high school market. Her fondness for this age group, however, goes back much farther. Since 1980, she has been mentoring aspiring young writers nationwide as well as penning over 150 plays for them to perform at their schools and in community theaters. This particular book gives teens -who go to the movies more than any age group in the world - the tools to do more than just watch those movies. It gives them the tools to write their own films. Don't let the title fool you, though - just as many young-at-heart adults have plucked it off the shelves to learn the tricks of the trade and master their own screenwriting journeys.

ELLEN SNORTLAND (Altadena).� Beauty Bites Beast is a clarion call for women and girls to learn how to physically defend themselves as a birth right or human right. Women are not biologically helpless, but just like swimming must be taught, so too can personal safety skills that can save a woman's life.� Featured on NBC's Dateline program, Beauty Bites Beast is considered a classic in the violence prevention field.� Snortland is currently completing her documentary, also called Beauty Bites Beast, which chronicles women in a Mexican factory who learn how to defend themselves. Stirring, revolutionary and controversial, it poses the question, "What happens when the sleeping giant of women in Latin America wake up and take back their power?"

Other Authors Tour USA� members to be showcased in the future include:� Emmy-award� winning children's author John Lanza; Award-winning author and activist, Ifalade Ta'shia Asanti, Actor, Giovanni Ortega; documentary producer and military historian, Jay Wertz; hypnotherapist and Reiki Master, Carol Woodliff.� Other talented authors include: from California: Me'Cael "Fly Boi" Baez, Brigitte Benchimol, Abdul Chappel, Randy Jurado Ertll, Kinji Inomata, Azaan Kamau, Jessie Karen, Roberta Martinez, Jan McInnis, Carol McKibben, Stacy Nelson, Poetic Old Soul, La Quetta Shamblee, Kira Solomatova.� Also Marvie Ellis, Texas; Mark Sonder, Virginia; Roseann Benson, Massachusetts; Janet Dunnagan, Nevada and Yolanda Aroyyo-Pizarro of Puerto Rico.

If you are a writer or author and would like to become a member, complete the online application at www.AuthorsTourUSA.com

WEBSTER'S FINE STATIONER � Webster's is a third-generation Altadena small business.� They are the first and only Altadena Lifestyle retailer with a long history of family and community.� Webster's is a local, sustainable, socially responsible store with gifts and stationary presented to their community with their lifestyle sensibilities in mind.

In addition to being the first and only Lifestyle store in Altadena, they host monthly "Eccentric Poets Open Mic", book signings and showcase local artists.� Webster's provide retail distribution opportunities for products created by individual artisans and musicians.� They also carry an inventory of fine art, artisan food products, body care products, stationery and jewelry from manufacturers throughout the U.S.� Part of their mission is to educate residents about the value of shopping locally.� According to Lori Webster: "I feel that the only way our economy is going to turn around is if we all make a concentrated effort to avoid shopping at corporate stores.� If most of our retail store owners brought from more local sources, our local economies would be strengthened.� Chasing the lowest price isn't good for anyone."

In addition, Webster's has opened its store to local non-profits, showcasing merchandise year round for Altadena's Christmas Tree Lane, giving 75% f net proceeds to the nonprofits.� They sell t-shirts from the Altadena Library, giving 100% of the proceeds to them.

Media Contact:� Wendy - 626-683-8243
[email protected]