About
Her latest novel, The Great Pretenders, will be released in Spring 2019.
A native Californian, Laura has a BA from the University of California, Riverside and a Masters in history from the University of Delaware. She studied Literature in the PhD program at University of California, San Diego where she developed a special affection for 19th century fiction, for memoirs and autobiographies, and for writers of the Great War era, 1900–1930. When a UCSD professor told her she had too much imagination for grad school, she turned to the writing of novels.
She is the mother of two sons, Emmy award-winning film and television composer, Bear McCreary, and singer-songwriter and music producer, Brendan McCreary. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Latest Posts
A Crash Course in Revision
There’s something strangely satisfying about slashing through your own prose.
The Barn Owl
Graced Land is fiction, but this character, this was from life. My life.
From Trash to Antiques
History is nakedly cruel and random, messy, inefficient, and thus, it must be clothed with story.