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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!
Outcomes
12 May 2012 - I can’t write about writing or the writing life today, because I am not doing any of the former, and as to the latter, I don’t have one. (Read More...)
Researching in Tears, Part 1
19 January 2012 - I can’t imagine any historical novelist sticking with a topic that didn’t leave him or her speechless from time to time, needing to step away and let the magnitude of some events seep into a mind reluctant to believe. (Read More...)
Things That Go “Bump” in the Day
9 December 2011 - One time when I was growing up, my sister and I, newly old enough to stay home alone for a few hours, were “terrorized” after dark by a neighbor on the front porch dropping off something he had borrowed from my dad. We stayed huddled in (Read More...)
Author Lecture
County of San Diego, Health Services Complex
3851 Rosecrans Street, San Diego, CA 92110.
Laurel will discuss her work in a talk for the San Diego Author/Editors Guild
