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All the book reviews
I'm an avid reader; I guess that comes with the territory, since I'm also a writer. Over the years I've reviewed a lot of books, both...
Laura Perry
Dec 26, 20163 min read


Dragons! A book cover reveal, that is
Are you tired of the dragon always being the bad guy? My lovely writer friend Maya Starling has written a different kind of dragon story,...
Laura Perry
Dec 3, 20162 min read


The Writer's Life: On Being a Jill of All Trades
Either you do it yourself or you pay someone to do it for you, and sometimes both. That's pretty much the way it works these days. What...
Laura Perry
Nov 2, 20163 min read


Win a copy of my new novel!
I've just published my second novel, The Bed, and I'm giving away two free copies to celebrate! What's it about? It's a novel about...
Laura Perry
Sep 7, 20161 min read


Writing All the Ideas
I've written a lot of books and I'm still writing. People often ask me where I get the ideas for my fiction and non-fiction; the...
Laura Perry
Jul 27, 20162 min read


Don't quit your day job
When people find out I'm a writer, they tend to tell me I'm lucky. "Oh, you get to stay home all day doing what you love!" "Wow, I wish I...
Laura Perry
Jun 8, 20163 min read


Book Review: New Order - Night Runner III
More vampires! Actually, the same ones I've reviewed before here and here. New Order is the last book in the Night Runner trilogy, a...
Laura Perry
May 4, 20163 min read


Sealed with a ... seal
Most of the people in ancient Crete couldn't write, but they did have a way to sign their name, in a manner of speaking: seals. Find out...
Laura Perry
Apr 20, 20161 min read


Book Review: Throwing Stones
I've just had the pleasure of reading a lovely book by Robin Reardon. Throwing Stones is, more than anything, a coming-of-age story about...
Laura Perry
Apr 13, 20162 min read


What does a book mean?
Back in high school, my English teacher liked to give us a form to fill out for each book we read. It listed the obvious bits – author,...
Laura Perry
Mar 11, 20162 min read


Book Review: End of Days
More vampires! Or rather, more of the twisted tale about these vampires, in the second volume of the Night Runner trilogy. First of all,...
Laura Perry
Mar 9, 20162 min read


How Writers Write: The Perils of Working from Home
I wrote my first novel during slow times at a deathly boring office job. It was awful - the novel, that is. I never published it or even...
Laura Perry
Feb 24, 20163 min read


Night Runner: a way with vampires
I have to admit to feeling ambivalent about vampires. The various iterations of Bram Stoker's Dracula (the book and the movies) entranced...
Laura Perry
Jan 13, 20162 min read


The Tao of Travel
The lovely folks at Outer Travels - Inner Journeys interviewed me about how traveling inspires my writing and art. Check out the article...
Laura Perry
Dec 2, 20151 min read


Why I Don't Give Bad Reviews
I’m sort of a public figure so people send me books to review or to write endorsements for. I also trade books with other authors and I...
Laura Perry
Nov 4, 20153 min read


Authors and the people who put up with them
Anyone who has tried their hand at writing the 'next great bestseller' can tell you that crafting a novel isn't easy. But for those of us...
Laura Perry
Oct 14, 20153 min read
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