Laura Elliott

Transfer Student Coming Soon!

TWO WORLDS TWO TEENS ONE WISH TRANSFER STUDENT Release date: March 20th Cover Reveal: February 14th Blog Tour: February 29th – March 20th  Giveaway coming soon! I’m super excited about Transfer Student and can’t wait to share Ashley & Rhoe’s story with you. I love that TRANSFER STUDENT is set in Los Angeles and planet RETHA …

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Magic of Music: Alicia McCalla’s Breaking Free Soundtrack Adds Heart and Soul

I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Alicia and her fiction through her amazing blog Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal Stories in Color and am thrilled to have her guest posting on Laurasmagicday today. Be sure to check out her blog this week for her upcoming giveaway! This year, my son, Asante McCalla, turned 18-years …

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On the road to Deltona, FL for The Paranormal Plumes YA Book Tour

I landed in Tampa last Wednesday night and have been hanging with my family here for the past few days. Tomorrow my sister and I head north to Orlando where we’re going to Harry Potter’s Wizarding World. After Orlando we’re meeting up with The Plumes in Deltona for dinner. We’re SO excited! Today went WAY …

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YA Indie Carnival: Interview with a Villain, Transfer Student & Book Tour

So sorry my post is late this week. I had the MOST AMAZING time talking about What Makes A Great Story with the kids of Mrs. Howell’s 6th grade class. What a fun class and an awesome group of writers! We talked about what we like about the stories we are reading now and what …

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Airel-Arson-Pyxis tour & GIVEAWAY

I’m thrilled to be hosting the Airel-Arson-Pyxis tour & 2  AWESOME GIVEAWAYs! Read on to find out more about these great YA Fantasy reads and then check out my review of Pyxis and the giveaway details at the end of the post 🙂 AIREL by Aaron Patterson & Chris White $2.99 on Amazon.com | £2.21 on Amazon …

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Teaser Tuesday: The Unfurl Blog Tour & Giveaway with Cidney Swanson!

SQueeeee! I have the amazing Cidney Swanson on Laurasmagicday for the UNFURL BLOG TOUR! Cidney is a fellow YA Indie Carnival author.  Read the excerpt and then enter the AMAZING GIVEAWAY! Here’s what Cidney says inspired her writing of THE RIPPLE hit series: “One very cold, wet March, I had an image pop into my …

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YA Indie Carnival: What reading teaches me as a writer

Everything. Right now it’s teaching me about the WWI and WWII in Europe and Asia. I’m writing an historical novel that takes place over a few generations, based on the true life of members of my family. And while I’ve got loads of primary information from interviews and letters, I need to know specifics. Specifics …

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If there were rides in EDITLAND

I am knee deep in edits of my upcoming novel TRANSFER STUDENT, a sci-fi romance. It’s a curious thing to be your own editorial calendar maker. You are essentially having conversations like these, with yourself: “Those edits needed to be in last week.” “I know, it’s just going a lot slower than I expectied.” “You …

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Teaser Tuesday: Pyxis by K. C. Neal [& the amazing adventures of Oso!]

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t …

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Writing Classes for Kids Winners!

Jake & Samantha win copies of 13 on Halloween & Winnemucca! Congratulations to :  8-12 YEAR OLD WRITERS First place: The Unseen Blight by Jake Flinthart 13-17 YEAR OLD WRITERS First place: Monster by Samantha Whitehouse ADULT WRITERS Two great entries tied for first place in our adult category.