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Laura Ryan's Biography

Member Info

LaFayette, New York
Happily married to my Fred since 1985.
Aug 2009

I am an independent author from Upstate New York. My husband, Fred Wellner, and I formed our own publishing company, Field Stone Press in June 2009 and have started a new chapter in our life together, writing and publishing darn good books. My debute novel is Dusty Waters: A Ghost Story.

Influences

Joyce Carol Oates, Harper Lee, Virginia Wolf, Tolstoy, Dickens, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Donna Tartt, Anne Tyler...

Upcoming Works

Dusty Waters: A Ghost Story (June 2009); The Fractured Hues of White Light: A Novel (2010); Drinking From the Fishbowl (Winter/Spring 2012); Washed Glass (TBA)

Publishers

Field Stone Press

Interests & Hobbies

Making art, gardening, reading other peoples books, and writing my books.