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Press InformationWindy Hill Publications produces specialty travel books in the shadow of Windy Hill, a prominent grass-covered ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains overlooking the San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley. Windy Hill's Souvenir & Guide publications serve as valuable trip planning resources as well as attractively illustrated, full-color souvenirs of popular California destinations. They can be purchased on-line, via mail-order, or from retail stores. Review copies of are available free of charge to press personnel who request copies to be sent to newspaper or magazine publication office addresses in North America. See "Contact" page for address, phone number, etc.
Gardens by the Bay: Exploring the Public Gardens of the Greater Bay AreaSouvenir and guide to over 150 gardens from Monterey to Mendocino MENLO PARK, California. May 6, 2005 - Gardens by the Bay: Exploring the Public Gardens of the Greater Bay Area, a pictorial guide to 157 gardens from Monterey to Mendocino was published today by Windy Hill Publications. With 114 color photographs and full accompanying text, at just $9.95 the guide offers an inexpensive but attractive souvenir and planning guide for visitors to publicly-accessible gardens in the counties surrounding Monterey and San Francisco Bays. Full text of 5.6.06 releaseCoastside: Exploring the Ocean Side of the San Francisco PeninsulaSouvenir and guide to our local “national treasure.” MENLO PARK, California. May 14, 2004 - Coastside: Exploring the Ocean Side of the San Francisco Peninsula, a pictorial guide to the rural San Mateo coastline was published today by Windy Hill Publications. With 80 color photographs and full accompanying text, at just $9.95 the guide offers an inexpensive but attractive souvenir of this remarkable region for visitors, tourists, and residents. Exploring Steinbeck Country and Silicon Valley at Barnes & Noble California Regional Writer and Photographer to speak at Berkeley store MENLO PARK, California. October 22, 2003 – California regional writer and photographer David Laws will present images and quotations from his “Exploring” series of photo-essay souvenir and travel guides to Steinbeck Country and Silicon Valley at Barnes & Noble, 2352 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704 (Phone 510-644-0861) at 7:30 PM on Wednesday November 19. Full text of 10.22.2003 releaseSilicon Valley: Exploring the Communities Behind the Digital RevolutionNew guide to the places that gave birth to the silicon microchipMENLO PARK, California. May 1, 2003 - Silicon Valley: Exploring the Communities Behind the Digital Revolution, a photo essay and souvenir guide to the landscape and communities where engineers and scientists learned how to turn sand (silicon) into gold (computer chips) priced at $9.95 with 124 color photographs and full accompanying text, was published today by Windy Hill. Steinbeck Country: Exploring the Settings for the Stories New guide to the places featured in Steinbeck’s California fiction MENLO PARK, California. October 4, 2002 - Steinbeck Country: Exploring the Settings for the Stories, a guide to the landscape featured in the novels of America’s “Bard of the People,” was published today by Windy Hill. With 125 color photographs and full accompanying text, the book is the first in a series of inexpensive, but fully illustrated regional souvenir and travel guides. Full text of 10.4. 2002 release
David A. Laws is a travel writer/photographer and high-technology business consultant. He was born and educated in the United Kingdom and emigrated to the US in 1968 where he worked for Silicon Valley semiconductor companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices and Altera Corporation, for more than 30 years. His articles on western regional themes have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, The Oregonian, and other publications. He is a member of Bay Area Travel Writers (BATW). A photo-essay guidebook, based on his presentation of a “Virtual Tour of Steinbeck Country” at the John Steinbeck Centennial Conference at Hofstra University in New York, was published as Steinbeck Country: Exploring the Settings for the Stories in 2002. He has also contributed articles and photographs to Steinbeck Studies, the Steinbeck Yearbook, and John Steinbeck: A Centennial Tribute and presented at the Annual Steinbeck Festival at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. Other souvenir and guide books by Mr. Laws include Silicon Valley: Exploring the Communities Behind the Digital Revolution (2003) and Coastside: Exploring the Ocean side of the San Francisco Peninsula (2004). "Portola Valley author writes guide to Steinbeck Country" Link to article in The Almanac (Menlo Park, CA) published on October 23, 2002, with permission. "Garden Tours on the Itinerary" Link to article in The Almanac (Menlo Park, CA) published on April 3, 2006, with permission.
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