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Laura Roberts

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Born

in Chicago, The United States

October 14

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Literature & Fiction, Romance, Short Stories

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Laura Roberts writes travel themed contemporary romance and short women’s fiction, with steamier stories under the pen name Laure L'Amour. She currently lives in Sacramento, California with her artist husband and their literary kitty, Percy. When she’s not writing, she can be found editing manuscripts for indie authors, transcribing reality TV (her day job), watching rom-coms, testing chocolate recipes, or searching for more typewriters to add to her collection.

Dabbling in both factual and fictional genres, Laura has penned 27 books for adults, including the alphabetical travel guides Montreal from A to Z and San Diego from A to Z, the offbeat writing guides NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide and Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist, a collect ...more

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	Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist (Indie Confessions, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Rebels of the 512 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	San Diego from A to Z: An Alphabetical Guide 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexy Haiku: 69 Erotic Poems for Lovers 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The NOIR Issue by Laura Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jimmy Callaway (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of Black Heart 2014: Celebrating 10 Years of Short Fiction, Poetry, Author Interviews & More Indie Literary Mayhem by Laura Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Danielle White (Editor), M. Chastain Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Portable Laura Roberts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Happy 2022! Let’s talk 2021 in Romance

If you’ve been wondering what my favorite romance novels of 2021 might have been, I will now direct you to my piece “A Year in Romancelandia” over at Book and Film Globe where I discuss exactly that!

SPOILER ALERT: Everyone deserves romance, and I hope my Top Five illustrates that sentiment.

I’ve been a bit scarce here on the blog, and that’s because the world has been doing its whole pandemic thi

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Quiet Night Think: Poems & Essays

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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

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“Fact: If you want to get ahead as a Canadian, you're going to have to leave the country. Especially if you have the gall to live in Montreal.”
― Laura Roberts, Porn Stars and Peccadillos

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“we pass a café with a sign that says
'you have beautiful eyes'
and something about soup.

i leave out the bit about soup,
the closest i come to an admission.”
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“The basic premise of the Hero’s Quest is simple: pick a hero and send him on a journey. Naturally, the journey can’t be too easily accomplished – that’s why it’s a quest and not just a trip to the grocery store.”
― Laura Roberts, Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist

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“we pass a café with a sign that says
'you have beautiful eyes'
and something about soup.

i leave out the bit about soup,
the closest i come to an admission.”
― Laura Roberts

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“Fact: If you want to get ahead as a Canadian, you're going to have to leave the country. Especially if you have the gall to live in Montreal.”
― Laura Roberts, Porn Stars and Peccadillos

tags: canada-reputation-montreal

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
― Raymond Chandler

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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Basho

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