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Thank you for visiting my website! My goal as a historical novelist is to provide you, the reader, with high-quality fiction about women and the forgotten and undervalued roles they played in their societies. Whether it’s the real-life physicist Emilie du Chatelet, the literary heroine Penelope, or women who have sprung entirely from my imagination, I offer you stories true to the facts of a time and place. My novels are populated with real and invented characters, to bring history to life and make you feel as much a part of other lives and other cultures as you do your own.
Please check back from time to time for updates on my new projects, and drop me a line at lacauthor@gmail.com to let me know you're out there reading!
August 31, 2010: As I near the end of the first draft of my novel in progress, tentatively called THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD, I’ve been looking back at this diary for a reality check on where I was a year ago. I came across an entry in which I wrote about a talk I was preparing for the [...] (Read More...)
August 22, 2010: Some people may picture the Muse as a creature with a toga and a crown of laurel (which I like to think of as a Laurel Corona). She sits on a writer's shoulder and sings inspirational songs while accompanying herself on the lyre. My muse isn't like that at all. She's more like a drill sergeant barking orders. Get up! Get to work! Stay put! You have a novel to write! (Read More...)
August 15, 2010: My second novel, Penelope's Daughter is coming out in a few weeks (the launch is September 24, and official pub date is October 5). Those who read it will note that the dedication is "to all the children left behind when mothers and fathers go off to war." (Read More...)
LAUNCH OF PENELOPE'S DAUGHTER!
Saville Theatre, San Diego City College
14th and C Streets, San Diego
SD Community College District Chancellor and Classics scholar Constance Carroll talks about Homer and the Odyssey, SD City College dancers perform, and Laurel Corona reads from her newly released novel Penelope's Daughter.
