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Laurie Holding, a/k/a L.B.Holding, lives in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two children's books, Tyrion's Tale and Tyrion's Town, about her pit bull who is a dogfighting ring survivor.

Laurie also wrote a space opera in collaboration with other authors, but Planted on Perry Street is Laurie's first solo novel under her own name. She is working on Book Two and a novella back story to add to the Garden Witch series.

Laurie is an award-winning poet, having placed or won in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, the GoodReads Poetry Forum, and the Writer's Digest Annual Poetry Contest. She is working on a chapbook of poetry, tentatively entitled "Sonnets and their Shadows", due out in 2022. ...more

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