OnceWritten.com at the 2006 West Hollywood Book Fair

What fun we had at the 2006 West Hollywood Book Fair. We gave away more than 250 OnceWritten.com Book Bags, stuffed full of materials from our sponsors. Some people even used the bags as carriers for their miniature dogs. We got to to meet many fun people from the area, including several OnceWritten.com subscribers.

A special extra-big smooch goes out to author Pierre Bateau who spent the day in our booth signing autographs and answering questions from the general public.

And a huge kudos goes to our art designer, Jennifer Bartoli, who is talented, gracious and so very wonderful to work with. If you're looking for some help with cover designs or other graphic design needs, check out her website at: www.jenniferbartoli.com.

Finally, a big thanks to all our sponsors, partners and friends, listed below, without whom we wouldn't have been able to make this program happen.

Our Sponsors

Split Indecision
Pierre Bateau
Genre: Action/Adventure

Jacob Livingston is a young man with problems. After losing his parents to a brutal murder, he finds out he has an illegitimate half-sister, Elizabeth Livingston, who has plans to take off with his family’s fortune. Believing that Elizabeth had something to do with his parents’ deaths, Jacob goes to great lengths to discover just how much she knows.

Tomorrow They Will Kiss
Eduardo Santiago
Genre: General Fiction

Like her native Cuba, Graciela Altamira is beautiful, defiant, passionate, and constantly threatened with some kind of trouble. Far from her tropical home, toiling in a New Jersey doll factory, Graciela longs for the same happy ending that seems always to come in her beloved telenovelas-a kiss powerful enough to erase the sins of her past and the haunting memory of her homeland.

But how can she forget when she lives among the ghosts of that little Cuban town? With Caridad and Imperio-two women Graciela has known since girlhood-by her side in the factory, it seems she'll never be free of her past, never truly able to pursue the possibility of love she finds quite unexpectedly in the cold, gray New Jersey winter.

Cemetary Walk
What lurks beyond the cemetary gates? Journey with the author and meet cemetery sextons, gravediggers, preservationists, writers, artists, ghost hunters, a funeral museum director, genealogists, and an assortment of taphophiles (people who love cemeteries). Discover what’s behind our attitudes toward death, graveyards and those resting inside. Find out what's superstition and what’s fact in this insightful, amusing guide into the world of cemeteries. Come explore the dark side. . . . it's not as easy as you think.

Our Partners

Better Days Ahead
Charlie Valentine
Gailia; Healing From Grief
Toni Johnson
Kwatee: Secret of the USS Kwatee
R. Allen Downey
Lincoln in the Basement
Jerry Cowling
Love's Reparations
Jackie Young
Master Spies and Muzzy Spooks
Dan Speers

My Life is all I Have
V. Anthony Rivers
Secrets of the Magadalene Scrolls
Bettye Johnson

Our Friends

Jennifer Bartoli, Our Supreme Art Director
www.jenniferbartoli.com

Kevyn Major Hoard Studios
www.KevynMajorHoward.com

The Readers Retreat
www.readersretreat.com

And More Friends

77 Urban Street, Annie Grant
www.authorhouse.com

A Hero and a Spy, Russell Lea
www.RussLea.com

Bitter Water, Sherri Smith
www.authorsden.com/sherrismith

The Death of Mammography, Rene Jackson
www.rjacksonrn.com

Dropped! A Condition, Not A Character Flaw, Gee Jae Arnold
www.droppedthebook.com

The Full Bodied Flavor, Kimberly Mickins
www.lulu.com/kimickins

Ghetto Walls, Tammy Pie
www.lulu.com/tammypie

Pithy Pieces by a Palmy Penman, Hilary Walker
www.hilarywalker.org

Shorts, J.M. Snyder
www.jmsnyder.net

Three Weeks Last Spring, Victoria Howard
www.victoriahoward.co.uk

The White Train, Larry Purcell
www.amazon.com

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