Laura Ellen

My blogs

• A Writer's Rants and Raves
• Sleuths, Spies, and Alibis
• The Apocalypsies

Blogs I follow

• Writers Helping Writers
• .Xpresso Reads.
• A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust
• A Good Addiction
• Adventures in YA Publishing
• Angels and Demons and Portals. Oh My!
• Ashley Nixon
• Authors are ROCKSTARS!
• Brave New Words
• Brooklyn Arden
• Deliriously Falling - A Lauren Oliver Fan Page
• Editing for the Future
• Editorial Anonymous
• Happy Book Lovers
• Heather Anastasiu
• Hilary Wagner
• Hippies, Beauty, and Books Oh My!
• I Read Banned Books
• Jacqui's Room
• Jay Asher
• JILL CORCORAN BOOKS
• Katherine Longshore
• Kidlit.com
• Libba Bray
• Linda Gerber, YA Author
• Lindsay Cummings
• Lost in the Library
• Megan Bostic's Creative Chaos
• Musings by Janice
• My Neurotic Book Affair
• My VerboCity
• Nathan Bransford, Author
• Notes from the Slush Pile
• Page turner
• PROJECT MAYHEM
• Query Shark
• Reading Writing Reviewing Blogging and between
• Sleuths, Spies, and Alibis
• squeetus
• STALKING THE BOOKSHELVES
• The Apocalypsies
• The Contemps
• The Flux Blog
• The League of Extraordinary Writers
• The Restless Writer
• The Temp, The Actress and The Writer
• Wickedly Delicious Tales - All Genre Book Reviews
• WORD for Teens
• YA Bookmark
• YA Fusion

About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Writer
Location	Ann Arbor, MI
Introduction	I write YA and MG books. My YA book, BLIND SPOT, will be coming out in Fall of 2012. Stay tuned for more info! I have an MA in Children's Literature and a BA in English. I was born/raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. Although I live now in Michigan, Alaska is a major part of me. I don't miss the winters, but I do miss the summers and that small town, out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere feeling. It is a big part of the writer I am now.
Interests	I write YA and MG realistic fiction with a paranormal element. I love the unknown, the draw of the mystery, the suggestion of a conspiracy. I like the way we live life thinking we have it all figured out when we really don't.
Favorite Movies	BBC version of Pride and Prejudice! Who doesn't love that movie, right? Also, I love stupid humor movies Napolean Dynomite and Meet the Parents, as well as dramas like Cold Mountain and movies with suspense and lots of twists.
Favorite Music	Seriously? I love music, period. My tastes are vast and wide-ranging. I was a metalhead growing up - yes, me! I love stuff I can dance to and stuff I can relate to or that has really clever lyrics. Don McLean's American Pie is a favorite, as is Billy Joel, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, but also new stuff like Sixx AM, Shinedown, Gavin Degraw, and Justin Timberlake.
Favorite Books	As ecclectic as my musical tastes. Besides what's listed in my blog: Moll Flanders, The Awakening, The House of Mirth, Tristram Shandy (the original intrusive/crazy narrator), The Yellow Wallpaper, and anything Austen.