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Laura Lane McNeal

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New Orleans, The United States

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After receiving two undergraduate degrees from Southern Methodist University (a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Business Administration), she went on to earn an MBA from Tulane University. She spent most of her career in advertising, working for firms in New York and Dallas, before returning to New Orleans where she started her own marketing consulting firm and became a free-lance writer as well as a decorative artist. In 2005, when the devastation of Hurricane Katrina left her with having to rebuild her life, Laura seized the opportunity to fulfill her lifetime dream of becoming a writer. She hasn’t stopped since.

Laura resides in New Orleans and is married with two sons. DOLLBABY is her first published novel. She is presently work ...more

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Cover2CoverMom says DOLLBABY is one of her faves for 2016!

Thank you Amanda at Cover2CoverMom for such a lovely and heartfelt review of DOLLBABY! She says in part:

I loved this novel from start to finish, you could even say I loved it from cover to cover. I am going to venture to say this is going to be one of my favorite novels of 2016!

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“You got to dance, even when there ain't no music.”
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“New Orleans was like that. A live-and-let-live attitude was ingrained into the fabric of the city; no one cared who you were or what you looked like - you had a place, and everyone respected that.”
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“Those called penny bags. Each of them got a brand-new penny on the bottom. The light reflecting off the penny supposed to confuse the flies, so they don’t come around and bother the food, although every time I see a fly, they confused enough already. Know what I mean?” Queenie chuckled.”
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“Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

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“You got to dance, even when there ain't no music.”
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“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
― Tennessee Williams

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