Category: YA Novels

Release Day for The Binding!

Release Day for The Binding!

Volume Three is finally here!   Come into THE BINDING, the entangling final chapter of THE LUMINATED THREADS and the fight for Blighted Basin’s future… Annmar Masterson has one chance to foil the scheming industrialist taking over the farmlands—a man who covets her body and the staggering power of her luminated threads. She must leave her […]

What is ‘A Steampunk Fantasy Romance’?

What is ‘A Steampunk Fantasy Romance’?

I’m using the tag ‘A Steampunk Fantasy Romance’ to describe The Unraveling, but my novel isn’t all about gears and steam. Steampunk falls within the science fiction genre. Libraries and bookstores will categorize my novel as: Fiction/science fiction/steampunk But that still doesn’t explain it. So, think Jules Verne. He lived and wrote in the 1800s, […]

Cover Reveal for The Rooftop Inventor

Cover Reveal for The Rooftop Inventor

I’m thrilled to reveal the debut cover for a steampunk YA written by one of my critique partners and fellow steampunk authors! Congratulations, Nooce! Beautiful! I love Theo’s magenta airship, and her undaunted stance. 🙂 Here’s what you can expect from this 19th century mid-western girl: It’s 1879 and seventeen-year-old Theodocia Hews is out of […]

Six Sentence Sunday #15

Again this week I’m featuring my WIP, The Farm, for Six Sentence Sunday! Today my artist heroine Annmar meets another of Wellspring Collective’s farm workers—a girl who becomes her friend and confidant. Once more Annmar shook hands and probably said the usual niceties, but her mind jumped to the hue of Mary Clare’s emerald eyes, […]

Posted December 9, 2012 by Laurel Wanrow in Writing, YA Novels / 2 Comments
Six Sentence Sunday #14

Six Sentence Sunday #14

Thanks for stopping by for Six Sentence Sunday! Please join my heroine Annmar on her first look at one of her new fellow workers on Wellspring Farm, in my WIP The Farm. Rivka is one interesting fellow, in her city-reared opinion. Below Annmar’s window, Wellspring’s manager joined several farmworkers under the spreading tree. A tall […]

Posted December 2, 2012 by Laurel Wanrow in Writing, YA Novels / 2 Comments

Six Sentence Sunday #13

Another week of edits on my WIP The Farm: When the farm owner leads the new artist through the outbuildings on a tour, Daeryn drops what he’s doing and follows along to meet her, instantly raising the hackles of his co-workers. Jac flipped her hair over one shoulder. “Oh, please.  Just because you’re lead now, […]

Posted November 25, 2012 by Laurel Wanrow in Writing, YA Novels / 0 Comments