Laura Engelhardt's Blog
May 13, 2024
The AI Craze
The website I use to create advertising images recently introduced artificial intelligence functionality into its program. I was surprised to discover the amazing improvement it made in my marketing material. It was rela...
April 25, 2024
Faerie Bargains on Facebook Marketplace
When we bought our house five years ago, the seller included their very expensive outdoor furniture in the sale. It���s top-notch, high-quality, name-brand furniture ��� that I absolutely hate. I���ve always hated it. But it���s...
March 28, 2024
Reimagining Relationships
Most fantasy novels are set in worlds whose cultures feel all too familiar. While there's magic, miracles, and/or fantastical creatures, for the most part, fantasy characters grow up in nuclear families that look a lot l...
February 14, 2024
The Romance Addiction
The Romance Addiction
January 31, 2024
Embrace Your Inner Optimist
Happy New Year!
December 15, 2023
Finding the Fun
This month, I���ve been flooded with requests to send photos for graduation videos, family holiday slideshows, and other planned trips down memory lane. As I searched for a picture where everyone was smiling (an epic fanta...
November 15, 2023
October 30, 2023
Novelette? What's That???
Next month my new book, Desert Enchantments: Stories of the Djinn Dictator will be available in both eBook and paperback! I wrote two novelettes featuring Amir Khalid (aka the "Djinn Dictator") to answer reader questions...
September 21, 2023
Happiness Is Life After 50
When I was a kid, I hated that line in "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas." But for me now, the start of school really is "the most wonderful time of the year!"
June 21, 2023
Manliness
My June periodical reading has been chock-full of articles about male angst, sounding the alarm bells about the crisis of masculinity we are facing in the U.S.
