News

Now there's a Printable Booklist in the About Laura section for readers who like to bring along a list of what-to-look-for when they go to the bookstore or the library.

There's a new Pictures page with Fascinating Photographs! More to follow. (Sooner or later.)

This website's menu has been rearranged and expanded recently, and there's also a new page for the Planeswalker novel I wrote, which was released in July, based on the popular fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering.

A new pages is under construction: Laura's Lists of Twenty in the About Writing section will offer quick tips about writers, writing, and the writing life.

Autumn 2009
	Doppelgangster on sale date: January 5, 2010! Doppelgangster will be released in mass market paperback (the standard "pocket" size paperbacks) by DAW Books in January. Meanwhile, Doppelgangster excerpts and other information is on the recently revamped Esther Diamond page of this website. And check out the Do It Yourself Wiseguy Kit on the Pictures page!

E-Books!
I've recently signed an electronic publishing deal for *In Legend Born, The White Dragon, and The Destroyer Goddess, as well as for my romance novels Fever Dreams* and *Fallen From Grace* (both of which novels are under my pseudonym, Laura Leone). This e-publishing program will be rolling out over the course of 2010. I can't give specific details yet, but it seems likely that by the end of the year, these books will be available across a wide variety of platforms and outlets (various e-readers, cell phones, and e-outlets) in several languages and countries.

A Printable Booklist page has been added this site. Print the page itself, or cut-and-paste the text into an application of your choosing.

	Facebook I'm on Facebook now. Click on the icon to visit me there!

How did I think up Esther Diamond and Maximillian Zadok? Check out the Where Do You Get Those Crazy Ideas? page for the answer.

*When is The Palace of Heaven* due out?** (Fourth book in "The Chronicles of Sirkara," after The Destroyer Goddess) As/when concrete news of this and other books unfolds, I'll post to this website various excerpts, release dates, covers, and so on. And, yes, I have changed the originally-planned order of books 4 and 5 of this series. Arena will now be the fifth book. I realized one day that the series are makes more sense this way.

She blogs! I'm blogging once or twice a month at the Novelists, Inc. blog, where dozens of professional novelists participate. For more-detailed information, check out the "Going Public" page.

Short fiction!
Some new covers posted on the Short Fiction page for anthologies where I've got short stories coming out this year.

What's new on this site in 2009? Lots!
Now there's a Printable Booklist in the About Laura section for readers who like to bring along a list of what-to-look-for when they go to the bookstore or the library. There's a new Pictures page with Fascinating Photographs! More to follow. (Sooner or later.) This website's menu has been rearranged and expanded recently, and there's also a new page for the Planeswalker novel I wrote, which was released in July, based on the popular fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering. A new pages is under construction: Laura's Lists of Twenty in the About Writing section will offer quick tips about writers, writing, and the writing life.