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Call for Submissions: For Glory and Honor

Posted on 2 April 20248 April 2024 by Hemelein Leave a comment

Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Universe, & Everything Symposium (LTUE) has been a staple of the Utah and Intermountain West author and artist community. Many authors, artists, and editors have found inspiration for their careers at the feet of scores of symposium guests. Influential professors and others have mentored those planning and running the symposium, but many of these mentors have passed on. The symposium helps students of all ages by providing greatly discounted student memberships. Hemelein Publications—in conjunction with LTUE Press—created a series of memorial benefit/charity anthologies to help the symposium continue to help…

Cover reveal for Troubadours and Space Princesses

Posted on 22 January 202420 January 2024 by Hemelein

We are excited to reveal the cover for Troubadours and Space Princesses, with beautiful art by Utah artist Bradley Williams. This is the sixth in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies series edited by Jaleta Clegg and Joe Monson! This volume celebrates the amazing life and legacy of David Farland (Dave Wolverton). So many people in the Intermountain West and around the world were positively impacted by Dave. Princesses and troubadours have long been a staple of adventure fiction. The tradition continues here, with princesses going on epic journeys, a tune worthy of a royal rodent, the power of a forgotten song,…

Five free books giveaway!

Posted on 10 April 2023 by Hemelein

Hemelein is giving away free books as part of a free book promo with a few authors! Have a chance to win a copy of Trace the Stars, edited by Joe Monson and Jaleta Clegg, as well as books by D.T. Read, Lydia Sherrer, Travis Heermann, and D.J. Butler! Go here for the full details!

The Horror at Pooh Corner is live on Kickstarter

Posted on 16 February 20231 March 2023 by Hemelein

Check out the Kickstarter for The Horror at Pooh Corner. Authors that have agreed to participate include Lee Allred, Gustavo Bondoni, D. J. Butler, Joseph Capdepon II, Jaleta Clegg, Michaelbrent Collings, Steve Diamond, Kary English, Esther Friesner, Julie Frost, Jonathan Maberry, Jody Lynn Nye, Lehua Parker, Janci Patterson, Leigh Saunders, Cedar Sanderson, Alex Shvartsman, Eric James Stone, and Brad R. Torgersen.

A Universe of Stories release event

Posted on 10 August 2021 by Hemelein

We will be having a release event for A Universe of Stories this Saturday, August 14, from 11am to 1pm in the American Fork Library Community Room. Come meet the authors, pick up a copy of the anthology, and get it signed! You can see more about it here. We hope to see you there!

A Universe of Stories release!

Posted on 15 June 202115 June 2021 by Hemelein

A Universe of Stories, our collection of winners from the American Fork Library 2019 science fiction short story contest, is up for preorder! A regularly-updated list of links to stores where it’s available is on the anthology page. Pick up your copy today!

Call for submissions: A Hero of a Different Stripe

Posted on 20 March 20215 April 2021 by Hemelein

Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Universe, & Everything Symposium has been a staple of the Utah and Intermountain West author and artist community. Many authors, artists, and editors have found inspiration for their careers at the feet of scores of symposium guests. Influential professors and others have mentored those planning and running the symposium, but many of these mentors have passed on. The symposium helps students of all ages by providing greatly discounted student memberships. Hemelein Publications—in conjunction with LTUE Press—created a series of memorial benefit/charity anthologies to help the symposium continue to help these…

Twilight Tales releases on Thursday!

Posted on 9 February 2021 by Hemelein

Twilight Tales will be released on Thursday, February 11, 2021 at Life, the Universe, & Everything 39. This year, it will be all online, so we’ll see how that works out. You can register for LTUE here. The launch event will be on Friday, February 12, at 1:00pm (Mountain Time) in the Douglas Adams Channel of the LTUE Discord server. Once you’re registered as an attendee, you will receive a link to join it. We’ll have as many of the contributors participating as possible. We hope to see you there! Here’s a list of the contents: “Behind the Bookshelf, in…

Cover art reveal for A Dragon and Her Girl

Posted on 14 February 201914 February 2019 by Hemelein

At the Trace the Stars launch event today, we shared the cover art for A Dragon and Her Girl, the second of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies (due out in February 2020). To the left is the cover art for those that weren’t able to attend. The art is by Kaitlund Zupanic. We also announced the authors of the stories accepted into A Dragon and Her Girl: Christopher Baxter Josh Brown Jaleta Clegg Max Florschutz Melva Gifford M.K. Hutchins Sam Knight Gerri Leen Hannah Marie Jodi L. Milner Wendy Nikel Michaelene Pendleton S.E. Page Scott R. Parkin John D. Payne Bryan…

Call for Submissions closed for A Dragon and Her Girl

Posted on 19 December 201819 December 2018 by Hemelein

Thank you to everyone who submitted stories to be considered for the A Dragon and Her Girl anthology. The call for submissions is now closed. Our next step is reviewing the submissions to determine which stories will be collected in the anthology. We’re looking forward to reading all of the submitted stories. The decisions will be made by the end of January 2019, and those who submitted stories should receive email notification by that time. Your support of the mission of Life, the Universe, & Everything is greatly appreciated. We look forward to seeing you at the launch event for…