Laura Whitcomb

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Biography

Laura Whitcomb grew up in Pasadena, California in a mildly haunted house. She received her English degree at California State University at Northridge in 1993. She has taught Language Arts in California and Hawaii. She has won three Kay Snow Awards and was once runner up in the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest for the best first sentence of the worst Science Fiction novel never written. In her spare time she sings madrigals with the Sherwood Renaissance Singers and is the props mistress for the Portland Christmas Revels. She lives in West Linn, Oregon. This is her first novel.

The movie rights for A Certain Slant of Light sold to Warner Brothers. ACSOL will be published in Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. The audio book is published by Listening Library. ACSOL was also chosen for the "Discover Great New Writers" program at Barnes & Noble bookstores.


Selected Works

How-to
Your First Novel
A book on how to write and sell your first novel, co-written with literary agent Ann Rittenberg.
Young Adult
A Certain Slant of Light
After benignly haunting a series of people for over a century, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their paths.



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