As we plan the page content for Hollywood Literary Guild, I wanted to invite you to provide any copy you would like to promote your work, your causes, your current projects, etc.  Simply send any content and/or links to me and we will make sure it is put on the site.  If you would like to have a regular recurring segment, we will plan a special section of the site just for you. 

On September 1 we will also launch the voting for outstanding literary accomplishment.  We have some incredible achievers to honor from Young Writers to Novelists to Video Shorts, Webisodes, Animators etc.

We are acknowledging as Women of the Year for Spring 2011, Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden for their work with families of veterans.  We are recognizing Richard Fine as Man of the Year for Spring 2011 for his fearless contributions to California Law.

Other winners for Spring 2011 are:

•Bloggers Pete Cashmore, Founder and CEO Mashable

•Radio Tim Davie – BBC Radio 1

•American Educatior Dr. Guy Sconzo – Texas International Baccalaureate Superintendent

•Global Educator -  Sharon Mills Draper – USA National Teacher of the Year

•Fitness and Wellness – David J. Pecker – America Media Inc

•Short Story Writing Ann Angel - Such A Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty

•Young Writers - Andrew McMillen - freelance journalist based in Brisbane, Australia

•Video fiction shorts - Meosha Bean – Began filmmaking at the age of 7

•Poets - Seth Michael Pierce – Freedomist Poet

•Short nonfiction - Emily Branham -  fearless documentarian

•Video Trailers - Cary Fukunaga - No Blood, No Guts, No Glory

•Webisodes - Carl Shaytard - “The Shaytards”

•Twitterers – Steve Martin

•Cartoon/Animation -  Carlos Saldanha - Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Rio (2011), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005).

Greetings!

We are getting very excited about the September 1 launch of Hollywood Literary Guild, HLG Social Network and The Hollywood Quarterly eJournal.  Our Masthead is filled with some of the most dynamic and acclaimed creative masters of our time.  We are honored to have you among them.  Below is the Mission Statement for the site as well as the Site Disclaimer. 

                   Debi Hall

                    President

                    Founder of Hollywood Literary

                    Guild

                   Louis Gossett, Jr.

                    Academy Award Winning Actor

                    Acclaimed biographer and

                    creator of Eracism

                   Nathan Baker

                    Vice-President, Global Marketing

                    Entrepreneur, Graphic Designer,

                    Web Developer

                   Kerri Zane

                    Fitness and Wellness

                    Emmy Award Winning

                    Television Producer

                    On-Camera Personality, Radio       

                    Host, Writer, Blogger, Speaker

                   Linda McAlister

                    Talent Agent Texas/California

                    2006 Women in Film Topaz

                    Award for Lifetime Achievement

                   Joseph Dougherty

                    Emmy Award Winning

                    Television Writer

                   Diana Baker

                    Children’s Literature

                    Magical teacher and writer

                   Nicholas Snow

                    Journalist

                    NotesFromHollywood.com,

                    NotesFromBangkok.com,

                    NotesFromThailand.com

                   Julio Martinez

                    Critic and Columnist

                    Script evaluator for the Writers

                    Guild of America/West

                   David Alexander

                    WGA Stage and Screenwriter

                   Alison Adams, JD

                    2011 Superlawyers,

                    The Private Bar

Disclaimer

Neither The Hollywood Quarterly nor The Hollywood Literary Guild nor any director, editor, member of the editorial board, board of directors etc has any connection to.....Or any other publication. The Hollywood Quarterly and The Hollywood Literary Guild and its directors, editors etc have sole discretion concerning whether to publish submitted work. No submission, whether or not the Author has ever published in The Hollywood Quarterly or The Hollywood Literary Guild, guarantees publication, and the author hereby waives any cause of action against The Hollywood Quarterly and/or The Hollywood Literary Guild to the extent permitted by law. The author shall retain the sole intellectual property right to submitted material.

Mission Statement

The purpose of the Hollywood Literary Guild is to support, inform, elevate and promote quality writing and writers of fiction and non fiction as well as talented  animators and videographers on a universal level. Our membership is limited to eminent writers, selected by the Board of Directors. 

•facilitate a broad, exclusive, and egalitarian community among distinguished global writers and videographers;

•to provide a forum for information, support, and sharing among writers and videographers;

•to help members improve and market their writing skills; and

•to promote writing and creativity in the international community through education, publication of the e journal, and sponsorship of writing-related public events.