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Friday, May 3, 2013

The Forgotten Ones - Released

The Forgotten Ones

The Danaan Trilogy

Book One

is now available exclusively on Amazon!




Allison O'Malley's plan is to go to grad school so she can get a good job and take care of her schizophrenic mother. She has carefully closed herself off from everything else, including a relationship with Ethan, who she's been in love with for as long as she can remember.

What is definitely not part of the plan is the return of her long-lost father, who claims he can bring Allison's mother back from the dark place her mind has gone. Allison doesn't trust her father, so why would she believe his stories about a long forgotten Irish people, the Tuatha de Danaan? But truths have a way of revealing themselves. Secrets will eventually surface. And Allison must learn to set aside her plan and work with her father if there is even a small chance it could restore her mother's sanity.




About Laura Howard


Laura Howard lives in New Hampshire with her husband and four children. Her obsession with books began at the age of 6 when she got her first library card. Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and other girly novels were routinely devoured in single sittings. Books took a backseat to diapers when she had her first child. It wasn’t until the release of a little novel called Twilight, 8 years later, that she rediscovered her love of fiction. Soon after, her own characters began to make themselves known. The Forgotten Ones is her first published novel.


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Saturday, June 25, 2011

random gobbledygook in my head

Random thoughts...

Do you ever think your thoughts are nothing but gobbledygook that speckles your brain without any real meaning?  I have that thought often.  Sometimes I worry that I can't get my thoughts to come out right when I'm within my characters head.  You know that show Scrubs?  I'm not a fan, sorry... I'm not.  Don't hurt me, please. Although I don't like the show, I think I'm related to the shows writers.  It amazes me how they get all of the abstract thoughts to come across on screen and they are considered geniuses and I have abstract thoughts and that makes me strange.  Back to the thought of being inside a characters head, I have one character that makes me laugh.  I love writing him, he is totally bad and very good at it.  He is a vampire.... I know, I know... another naughty vamp running wild within a young adult book.  He enjoys being bad..... but he has a softer side, the side that is misunderstood.  He doesn't always want to be bad, it is just more acceptable to be bad and be a vampire...    It isn't all that interesting to have a soft and cuddly vamp.  In my second book some of his secrets will come to light.  I'm just afraid of making the reader too sympathetic to him causing him to lose his sex appeal.  So how do you make your reader see the softer side without taking away his edge?  Like Dimitri in The Vampire Academy series... he is edgy but one damn sexy man YET he has a softer side.  Midnight... Saturday night in the big city of New Bern... my gobbledygook is sloshing around in my head, pondering the future of my bad vampire.  There must be something more exciting going on.. ..