Author News

Marianne Lonsdale talked with Laura about her writing life. “I’m concerned with two risks for my novels. The first is that people will dislike the story and criticize my writing. I’m in for this risk; I’ll take that on. The second risk is that I’m writing about experiences that mirror someone else’s real life. If I get those experiences wrong, will my errors hurt a reader?  . . .”

“I’m not trying in these books to reveal one character or one life. I’m trying to come up with an image for the whole thing. That we’re all on this planet together and we touch and intersect and influence and interact with each other.”

John Przybys talks with Laura about the experience she hopes her readers have. In the video, she says, “I get to step into another human being’s world.”

Steve Richards asks Laura about a novel that is “brilliantly conceived and passionately written.”

Lisa Tschernkowitsch notes that “love for a child, and also the love that a child has for a mother, really pulls everyone together” in ‘Round Midnight.

Laura tells friend and host Lynn Borton that “curiosity has this flipped quality . . . it is bigger than just wanting to know . . . it’s a chance to empathize.”

Tom Williams and Laura continue a conversation about writing, and living in modern America. Laura claims, “There’s another path, and I live in it.”

Santa Fe radio personality Richard Eeds and Laura remember an old Vegas, while talking about ‘Round Midnight.

The American Booksellers Association asked me a few questions about writing my first novel, and I got a chance to tell them how much Indie bookstores mean to me.