Tag: YA novels

Nice Review!

Nice Review!

This was fun to find posted on The Binding: 5.0 out of 5 stars Worth every minute of reading! Chose first book out of curiosity, the second out of being absorbed into the characters and the third to find out what happened to them all! Can see openings for even more in the series!  

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 […]

Meeting the dogs within the story

Meeting the dogs within the story

I’ve been deep in edits with a shapeshifter story, but hadn’t realized how frequently I feature animals in my other stories until I attended the World of Pets Expo this weekend. Our guinea pig rescue group—yes, MGPR, a guinea pig rescue, as I had to confirm many times during my shift—sets up a booth alongside […]

Posted January 26, 2015 by Laurel Wanrow in Writing / 2 Comments
Thanksgiving = Chessiecon

Thanksgiving = Chessiecon

Over the weekend following Thanksgiving, the mid-Atlantic region is treated to Chessiecon, a science fiction/fantasy con presented by the Thanksgiving Science Fictions Society in Timonium, Maryland. Sessions on many aspects of SF/F are offered across as many as 12 rooms–art, music, gaming, dance, spiritual, videos, and literature. But best of all, one of my favorite […]

Posted November 29, 2014 by Laurel Wanrow in Conferences / 3 Comments

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