LTUE Benefit Anthologies – Hemelein Publications, LLC.

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,…

Call for Submissions: Dog Save the King!

Posted on 29 March 202329 March 2023 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…

Cover reveal for A Hero of a Different Stripe

Posted on 15 November 202214 November 2022 by Hemelein

We are excited to reveal the cover for A Hero of a Different Stripe, volume 5 in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies publication series! The cover art is by Kevin Wasden, and is inspired by “Within Limits”, the story by Scott R. Parkin. A Hero of a Different Stripe will be released on February 16, 2023 at the annual Life, the Universe, & Everything science fiction symposium in Provo, Utah.

Story reveal for Troubadours and Space Princesses

Posted on 14 November 2022 by Hemelein

After much deliberation and consideration, editors Jaleta Clegg and Joe Monson and pleased to announce the stories that will be included in Troubadours and Space Princesses, the sixth volume in the LTUE Benefit Anthology series published by Hemelein Publications and LTUE Press. We appreciate everyone who submitted stories. There were so many good stories submitted, and it was hard to whittle them down to the word count we needed. The stories selected are: “Luck, Life, Light, and Other Frivolous Pursuits” by Jenny Perry Carr “The Song to Save a Cursed Kingdom” by Kate Dane “Freedom’s Song” by Cray Dimensional “A…

Submission period closed for Troubadours and Space Princesses

Posted on 2 May 2022 by Hemelein

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the call for submissions for Troubadours and Space Princesses, the sixth volume in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies series. The number of unpublished stories submitted reached 80%, which is significantly higher than in the past (previous ones have gotten into the low 40% range, so huge jump there). We appreciate so many of you sending in stories that David Farland would have loved. Now we begin the process of reviewing all the submissions and winnowing them down to those we think will work best for the anthology. As mentioned in the call for submissions,…

Parliament of Wizards is up for preorder!

Posted on 20 January 202217 January 2022 by Hemelein

Parliament of Wizards, the fourth LTUE Benefit Anthology, is now available for preorder! Order it today!

Troubadours and Space Princesses Call for Submissions

Posted on 18 January 202218 March 2022 by Hemelein

Edit: The submission deadline has been extended to April 30, 2022. 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…

A Hero of a Different Stripe responses done

Posted on 6 October 2021 by Hemelein

We have now sent out all of the acceptance and rejection notifications for submissions to the A Hero of a Different Stripe anthology, and less than a week after we wanted to get them out! If you submitted a story, please check your email (and check the trash or spam folders if you don’t see it right away). We appreciate all of the story submissions. As with our previous LTUE Benefit Anthologies, we had fun reading them, and the diversity of stories was amazing. Once we receive all of the signed contracts, we’ll be sharing the list of stories and…

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…