01. What are your nicknames?

I don’t have any that I know of. Laura is kind of short to start with. If I am called anything else, it’s probably not printable.

02. How does your hair look currently?

Long, past my shoulder, dark brown, almost black, straight but very full and thick. My hair is one of my best features. It frames my second best feature, my dark eyes.

03. What’s new in your life right now?

Chaos, but that’s not new.  I’m rearranging my office so I can set up a workstation for my eldest son to help me out with time-consuming tasks for the press. It may sound small but the room is large and is filled with computers, four printers, external cd burners, table space, shipping supplies, bookcases, books, promo material, booth supplies, office supplies, fax machines, scanners, and phone lines, cables and enough power cords to reach to town. I do not attempt this job lightly! It will easily take days to accomplish without disrupting work too much. Plus I’m getting ready to make our new bookstore feature live for the press. Lots of work going into that one.

04. How many colors are you wearing now?

Two. Lilac nightie and black dressing gown. Sorry, it’s 2 am. I like to be comfortable when I write.

05. Are you an introvert or extrovert?

Extrovert. I think.
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06. What was the last book you read?

Deadly Dreams by Victor J. Banis. Wonderful read!

07. Who is your favorite super hero?

My husband. He’s amazing, strong, brilliant, handsome and rock solid. A good man. Good father and great lover.

08. Is there anything that has made you happy these days?

My ten-year-old made me breakfast as a surprise—even if it was 2 in the afternoon. It was supposed to be eggs over easy and ham but the eggs broke and he couldn’t find the ham so he scrambled the eggs and fried baloney thinking I wouldn’t notice the difference. I got an unexpected meal and a big old “I love you, mom.” Awesome. And fried baloney isn’t bad.

9. What’s your current obsession?

Finding comfortable shoes for all the upcoming promotional events I have scheduled. I’m short, I need height but height is uncomfortable for standing in for 14 hours. Why is it shoes are either ugly and comfortable, or awesome and painful? All right, I admit it. It’s not a current obsession.  It’s a continual obsession. I love shoes.

10. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?

For an ordinary day –5 minutes. For a going out in public day—one hour. Hair, face, clothes—they all take time to do at my age, so much to cover up.

11. What websites do you visit daily?

My author site, the MLR Press site, all the distributor sites, my stats site, my various gmail accounts, my local emails, my upload sites for text and art work and the Rainbow Romance Writers site. I try to work in a visit to Elsia Rolle’s site, Jessewave, and NoseinaBook if I have time. I visit all the google alert sites I get notified about. And I hit youtube in the evening to find music video’s to listen to.

12. What was the last story you wrote?

I’m rewriting Genetic Snare right now but the last story I completed was a piece of gay erotica titled WET SHEETS. Part of the WET SKIN anthology.

13. What’s the last thing you laughed about?

My ‘to do list’. I looked it all four pages of it and just laughed out loud. Then I got a cup of coffee. Then I did one thing on the list. This questionnaire.

14. What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?

Be Your Man by Josh Turner. I love that song. Makes me think of Bram and Jamie.

15. What’s the last movie you saw?

I watched the latest James Bond on payperview over the weekend.

16. Do you buy or download the movies you watch?

Buy. My husband  would have a stroke if I downloaded things like that onto my machine.  He’s a programmer like in missiles and satellites. It’s a fear of having to do CPR on my business computer like he’s had to do on my sons’ computers multiple times from all the downloads they do.