New Book Promo

Unclaimed Baggage just went live last week and0 Reclaimed Baggage will be out next month so I've been doing a lot of promo lately. I thought I'd share some of it.

  

 

 

Q: What do you think the books say about family dynamics?

A: Family love is complicated. You can have a deeply loving relationship with someone who has caused you deep pain and this is a life lesson most of us only get through the kind of forgiveness only granted to family.

-Deborah Kalb Books

How do you measure the success of your writing career? I’d love it if Finding Charlie was picked by Reese Witherspoon’s book club or Unclaimed Baggage was made into a film for Netflix, but the pursuit of those things doesn’t drive me.  I write because I have these stories in my head, and because I have something to say. I write for myself. I don’t know if I can say I enjoy the writing itself. The process can be pretty frustrating. But the finished product is very satisfying. I love hearing from readers. I think that connection may be the main reason I write. Success is a good review. -Laura's Books and Blogs

I’m a hybrid author. I’ve been at this, professionally, for about twenty years. My debut novel was traditionally published. I have two books that I released on my own. A fourth was chosen for publication by KindleScout’s crowdsourcing competition. Unclaimed Baggage and Reclaimed Baggage are coming out with Type Eighteen Books this spring.

I resist writing sequels. I often write family sagas with overlapping characters, so they’re all connected. In that way, the stories are never over. The main character in one book may show up as a peripheral character in another, and vice versa.

Unclaimed Baggage is the first book I wrote with a single narrator. When I decided I wanted to tell her mother’s story, I knew I couldn’t write it from Jenna’s point of view. Much of what shapes Barbara’s character were events that took place before Jenna was born. So Reclaimed Baggage is a sequel of sorts, but with a different main character. -CanvasRebel