Tory Hartmann
Writer and Editor
Tory Hartmann
Strange
Bedfellows
When a powerful U.S. Senator dies, his fiancée becomes a tool in a secret corporate oil scheme. Jennifer Ryan has to prove her innocence, but also must reveal the deadly conspiracy to drill for oil in the middle of giant coastal redwoods. Meanwhile, the senator’s killer is about to strike again.
Available soon on sandhillreviewpress.com
Current Projects:
First Friday
Agnes Anne O'Neil still lives at home home with her ubber-Catholic parents, and is convinced she's the oldest virgin in San Francisco. Agnes hates her name, her face, and her stutter. Part of the problem is that her old boyfriend, slimy brother-in-law Bruno, keeps hitting on her and telling her he married the wrong sister. All Agnes wants to do is pay for her speech therapist, her nose surgery, get herself together and get out of the O'Neil world of saints and sinners. But her parents think she'll be the one to care for them in their old age, but oops, she falls in love with a nice Jewish guy.
Mariachi Always Make Me Cry is a sequel to First Friday. Three O’Neil sisters try to find the Fountain of Youth in the fictional Central American country of Bellador.
About Tory
Tory Hartmann is the managing editor of Parenting on the Peninsula, (www.ponthep.com) a monthly family magazine in the San Francisco Bay Area that serves San Mateo County and Silicon Valley. It's a part-time gig, so she also works on Sand Hill Review Press, a new publishing company. (www.sandhillreviewpress.com)
Her non-fiction has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Mateo County Times, and Parenting on the Peninsula. Her fiction has been published in The Sand Hill Review, Descant, The Hurricane Review, The Homestead Review, Ship’s Log: Writings at Sea, Tattoo Highway, Fault Zone: Words from the Edge, Fault Zone: Stepping Up to the Edge as well as many others. Her screenplays include The Ghost of Harvey Milk and three episodes of The Powerhouse Kids. Recently, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her story, The Jalopy, which was published in The Sand Hill Review.
A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Hartmann has been a political consultant, a graphic artist, real estate broker, and business executive. She is active in the Knights of Saint Francis of Assisi and has recently been inducted into the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem (you may call her Lady Victoria, curtsy optional). She is past president of the San Francisco Branch of California Writers Club as well as past president of the San Mateo County African Violet Society. In her spare time she writes novels and walks her French bulldog with her husband, Bill.
Tory Hartmann is the managing editor of Parenting on the Peninsula, (www.ponthep.com) a monthly family magazine in the San Francisco Bay Area that serves San Mateo County and Silicon Valley. It's a part-time gig, so she also works on Sand Hill Review Press, a new publishing company. (www.sandhillreviewpress.com)
Her non-fiction has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Mateo County Times, and Parenting on the Peninsula. Her fiction has been published in The Sand Hill Review, Descant, The Hurricane Review, The Homestead Review, Ship’s Log: Writings at Sea, Tattoo Highway, Fault Zone: Words from the Edge, Fault Zone: Stepping Up to the Edge as well as many others. Her screenplays include The Ghost of Harvey Milk and three episodes of The Powerhouse Kids. Recently, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her story, The Jalopy, which was published in The Sand Hill Review.
A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Hartmann has been a political consultant, a graphic artist, real estate broker, and business executive. She is active in the Knights of Saint Francis of Assisi and has recently been inducted into the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem (you may call her Lady Victoria, curtsy optional). She is past president of the San Francisco Branch of California Writers Club as well as past president of the San Mateo County African Violet Society. In her spare time she writes novels and walks her French bulldog with her husband, Bill.
