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Lara Frater

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Born

in New York, The United States

June 16

Website

http://www.larafrater.com

Genre

Horror, Science Fiction, Paranormal

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Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen King, Octavia E. Butler, ...more

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Look upon my squid hat! Look upon it!

I’m your atypical fat gamer girl who loves to write: Horror, non-fiction, poems, paranormal suspense, non-fiction, and sci-fi.

Although I prefer to write fiction, my first book was the non-fiction Fat Chicks Rule! A guidebook on being a big girl in a thin world and included information on how to find fat positive books, movies, and TV, where to find fashion, comfortable seating, and how to deal with fat hatred. Writing this book changed my life and perspective on dieting and fat bodies. I also wrote the essay "Fat Heroines in Chick Lit" for the Fat Studies Reader. (This essay from mentioned in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, so woohoo!)

But my first love was fiction, which I returned to wit ...more

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	Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World 3.61 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	End of the Line (End of the Line #1) 3.86 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stuck in the Middle (End of the Line #2) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paranormal Pest Control 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 19 by Daniel Arthur Smith (Goodreads Author), Peter Cawdron (Goodreads Author), Kevin Lauderdale (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 43 by Daniel Arthur Smith (Goodreads Author), Ernie Howard (Goodreads Author), Steve Oden 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Necrotic Tissue, Issue #2 by R. Scott McCoy (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paige McCoy (Guest Editor), Ayn Sauer (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 30 by Daniel Arthur Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Ezell, Jeremy Essex (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jersey Devils it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Circle 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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