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Laura Kilmartin

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Born

in Portland, ME

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http://www.laurakilmartin.com

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Contemporary, Romance, Fiction

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Next Year I’ll be Perfect is Laura Kilmartin’s first novel. She previously published four essays in Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays. All author royalties from that collection have been donated to breast cancer charities.

Laura is an attorney who lives and works in her native Southern Maine. A pop culture savant, she loves to read, write, travel and collect DVDs of cancelled TV shows in her spare time.

Please visit Laura’s Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/laurakilmarti... or follow her (@LauraCKilmartin) on Twitter. ...more

	Next Year I'll Be Perfect 3.57 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 2012 — 8 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
	Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays by Tess Thompson (Goodreads Author), T.M. Frazier (Goodreads Author), Terry Persun (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.39 avg rating — 41 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
	Next Year I'll Be Perfect by Laura Kilmartin (25-Sep-2012) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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