Picture: Photo of a white woman from the waist up, standing against a grayish stone building. She is fat, white, and smiling, with short, graying, dark hair and dark-rimmed glasses. She's wearing a black blouse under a denim jacket.

Hi, I'm Laura.

I write contemporary romance novels set in the fictional town of Galway, North Carolina. I grew up in the Louisville Kentucky area, spent time in Colorado and Illinois and, for over a decade, lived and worked in the western Carolinas not far from where I envision Galway to be. Now I'm in Minnesota near my grown child.

I create love stories for the kinds of characters it would be good to know in real life. People you could entrust your loved ones to. They're not perfect, and they've not all had easy lives (please see my CW page if you have triggers), but they'll never abuse or humiliate or intentionally treat badly anyone who isn't a danger to them. Real life can be hard enough; I don't want to romanticize abuse or add harmful characters to it. 

In addition to the social media links above this photo, I'm on also on BlueSky.


Other potentially useful info:
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My agent is Kate Testerman ( [email protected] ) of  ktliterary.com/

My Galway series is published by Sourcebooks (Casablanca imprint).
Please send all reviews or mentions of the Galway books to the Sourcebooks marketing department:   [email protected]
For sales inquiries, please contact:  [email protected]
For librarian & educator resources, visit:  sourcebooks.com/library

​I enjoy talking to people about my stories and about writing in general, although I greatly prefer virtual events.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if your book club or podcast would like a Zoom guest,
or if your discussion panel or college class needs a sociologist-turned-genre fiction-author guest,
or if you'd like to do a written interview!
I'd like to meet you.  <3