Laura Roberts's Blog

“I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still … Continue reading →

As much as I love working on Black Heart Magazine, my online lit mag, it’s a full-time job to keep on top of all our fiction and poetry submissions, book reviews, author interviews, character crushes, and assorted commentary. And since … Continue reading →

Since I think this list is almost completely bogus (barring the suggestion of The Sisters Brothers, which is actually on my To Read list), I’ve devised my own summer reading list. Here’s what I’ve got: The House in Paris by … Continue reading →

Recently, my Rebels of the 512 blog (dedicated to all things ninja and pirate) has won a couple of blogging awards. I was given both the Kreativ Blogger Award and the Versatile Blogger Award for my Ninja Weapons from A … Continue reading →

I’ve been half-jokingly saying that I’ll publish a volume entitled The Portable Laura Roberts for a while now. At one point in my life, a then-boyfriend had dedicated a website to the notable quotables I had constructed in my various … Continue reading →

I recently joined Postcrossing, a neat postcard swapping site that lets people share postcards with strangers from all over the world. After sending off four postcards to various points on the globe (Russia, the Ukraine, Sweden and Taiwan, to be … Continue reading →

Do you ever have trouble distinguishing between writing for fun and writing for money? I certainly do. I actually had to sit down and make a list of my work commitments versus my personal projects, as they were starting to … Continue reading →

Last month I joined the Book In A Week online writers group, with the aim of taking my novel writing goals more seriously. Since I had such a blast doing the 3-Day Novel Contest and actually finished a novel, I … Continue reading →

While I didn’t win the Houston Writers Guild Genre Contest, I did score a 141 out of 150 points on my 15-page novel excerpt. That’s a 94%, which is still totally an A, right? The comments I received on my … Continue reading →

My final Awesome Lady Author is actually a translator whose most famous work came from her ability to put another great writer’s German sentences into English. Helen Zimmern is perhaps best known for her translations of Nietzsche, including Beyond Good and … Continue reading →