Native Angeleno and veteran screenwriter Elizabeth Gill Brauer announces ‘Open 24 Hours,’ a seven CD audio book recounting 24 short stories all set between Christmas and New Year’s on the same day, in the same place’a 24-hour coffee shop in Los Angeles. As interpreted by Clo, a young waitress struggling to be a writer, the audio stories take the listener on a wild ride’into the narrator’s quirky imaginings, yearnings and revelations. Reading from her own work, Gill provides colorful oral storytelling to drivers, joggers, workers, travelers and anyone else who doesn’t have time to read or wants to be read to! The tagline for the colorful audio release is ‘Love. Sex. Death. Food. Tales of a 24-hour coffee shop.’ Gill will launch her book with a live reading of some of the best parts, this Saturday, December 3 at noon in Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd. Next Thursday, December 8, she will discuss the book at the Writers Junction, 1001 Colorado Ave., in Santa Monica, from 6 to 8 p.m. A longtime Pacific Palisades resident and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA with a B.A. in English, Gill has been a professional writer since 1970 and has written feature films for Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, as well as numerous television movies. She has been teaching both short and long-form screenwriting in the USC School of Cinematic Arts for nine years, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also teaches the required writing course in animation in the John C. Hench School of Digital Arts and Animation. Gill is a lifetime member of the WGA. Her credits include ‘Having It All,’ ‘Sins of the Father,’ ‘A Secret Between Friends,’ ‘Someone to Love Me’ and the ABC series ‘My So-Called Life.’ She has also written a book of poetry, ‘Blue Woman Poems.’ As a member of a Westside women’s soccer team for the past 18 years, Gill has won several gold medals in Senior Olympics competitions. She is also an active performing member of the Magic Meathands comedy improv troupe. For her work with teenage girls, she received the Service Award from Writegirl, a local mentoring organization. She and her husband, Jonathon (a portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch in Santa Monica), have lived in the Alphabet streets neighborhood since 1979 and have two grown daughters. Eden is a hematological oncology nurse at City of Hope and Phoebe works in public affairs for Planned Parenthood Pasadena/San Gabriel. ’I was once named Mother of the Year by the Palisadian-Post, if that might be amusing to include in the article,’ Gill added.
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