Alameda Writers Group October meeting October 3, 2009

ALAMEDA WRITERS GROUP – LOS ANGELES PRESENTS: WRITING HORROR-IFICALLY - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD
Please join Alameda Writers Group Saturday, October 3rd, for a panel discussion on writing horror, how to make your work stand out in a crowded marketplace, and why everyone loves vampires. On the panel will be Raelle Tucker, writer on HBO’s True Blood and CW’s Supernatural, Del Howison, owner of Dark Delicacies bookstore, editor of the Dark Delicacies horror anthologies, and author himself, and Lara Parker, actress in the original Dark Shadows TV show and author of novels based on that show’s mythology.
Raelle Tucker writes television. And movie and plays. She’s currently a writer/producer for HBO’S series “True Blood”. In 2003, a screenplay she co-wrote: “Cheeks” made the top 3 finals of HBO’s “Project Greenlight”. She didn’t win, but the exposure eventually led to her first television job - as a staff writer on the critically acclaimed but short-lived ABC private detective drama “Eyes”. Raelle followed that with 2 seasons of the CW’s “Supernatural”, which she quit to work with one of her heroes, Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) on his HBO vampire show, “True Blood”. Last year “True Blood” was nominated for both Golden Globe and WGA awards. Season 3 is currently in production and is scheduled to premiere summer 2010.
Besides owning America's only all-horror book and gift store for the last 15 years, Dark Delicacies, the 3rd book in the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology series that Del Howison edits, Dark Delicacies III: Haunted has just come out, featuring stories by Heather Graham, Chuck Palahniuk, David Morrell and others. He also has a short story in the new anthology Forrest J Ackerman presents The Anthology of the Living Dead. Del has been in seventeen "D" movies and his books have been nominated for Bram Stoker Awards (three times - won once), a Shirley Jackson Award, and a Black Quill Award among others. I have just signed a contract with Ulysses Press to write two books for them
Lara Parker was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Memphis. The summer she was writing her thesis, she acted at the Millbrook Playhouse in Loch Haven, Pennsylvania, where she played five leads in six weeks. She decided to try her luck in New York City, and the second week she was there she was cast as Angelique on Dark Shadows, a show which has become a cult classic. Lara turned some of her creative energies toward writing and now has written two novels, a collection of short stories, several screenplays, and has contributed to several non-fiction books.
Alameda Writers Group – Los Angeles is a non-profit group for writers of all genres in all stages of development. AWG hosts meetings on the first Saturday of every month at the Glendale Central Library, 222 E. Harvard St, Glendale, CA 91205. There is free parking for up to three hours at the garage across the street on Harvard. For more information please visit alamedawritersgroup.org.

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