the job. The rest is getting out there and
marketing can be a full time job in itself.
Creatively I have a couple of projects
on the burner. One project is finding a
home for my Asian dragon novel. I’m
hoping to get back to sending out
proposals on that one. I have a few
novels outside the Sentient/Feral
Vampire Series that I’d like to finish.
Of course a big goal is to get to work
tweaking the second novel in my series.
It’s currently in a slightly rough draft
stage. It’s actually a favorite in the series
because it introduced characters and a
story dynamic that are important to
later novels.
One thing I definitely have to do is get
back to work on a nonfiction book I’m
writing with a man whose dad was
falsely accused of loan sharking in
1960s Chicago. It’s a compelling story.
Oh…and did I mention marketing To
Touch the Sun?
MAER: LOL. What do you do when
you’re not writing?
LAURA: I work two part time jobs at
libraries so my free time outside of that
is spent writing. When I get to a point
where my writing is my full time career
I’d like to play with making music again.
I used to write songs when I was
younger and record them on a fourtrack. Some were serious, some joke
songs I wrote for a punk group parody
my friends and I came up with called
The Dead Punkheads. It was silly fun.
I’d like to travel more too. Take drives
to other states. I drove down to
Kentucky a few years ago to take part in
the Southern Ke