I have worked with people with mental illness for decades, and I see how society marginalizes the problem and wills people who have it to gracefully disappear. Not her intense fear of germs that keeps her housebound most of the time. Not the fact that she needs to borrow a car and hasn't driven in years. Her campaigns for all of her books has been extensive, resulting in favorable media clips from both print and television.Īnna Beck is determined to stop the wedding of her boundary-challenged therapist/ fantasy British lover, and nothing is going to stop her: Not that the ceremony is 1,300 miles away.
Laura worked previously as a public relations director for the San Diego Repertory Theater and for Walcher Inc, a media and public relations firm in San Diego. She's worked with two independent San Diego bookstores, Mysterious Galaxy and Warwick's, for events and signings. Laura has taught writing seminars at the Southern California Writing Conference, Canyon Crest Academy Young Writers Conference, San Diego Writers Ink, and through author visits to schools including the Monarch School (a San Diego school for students without homes.) She has also done book signings in Columbus, Ohio, Kauai, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. As a journalist, she was awarded the Copley Ring of Truth award as well as a Janus Award for business writing. She is a former journalist with the San Diego Union-Tribune. She won a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize for her short story, "The Murder of Crows" her work has been published in the North American Review, Hysteria Magazine, Scribophile, NEA Today, Writer’s Digest. Laura has published three YA novels with Penguin’s Berkley Jam imprint (the Queen Geek Social Club, Queen Geeks in Love, and Prom Queen Geeks) as well as the LGBT-themed dystopian novel Out (currently in development for film and television),and Lica’s Angel.
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