Laura Stone's Blog

I was delighted to find my book, AND IT CAME TO PASS, on a list of the best of 2017–the best 17 of 2017–list of romances on USA TODAY‘s book review website, Happily Ever After. A tremendous list to share company with! See sidebar for buy links, and don’t forget to ask your library for a […]

[Edited to add new data]: It pains me to have to repost this article given new statistics, but a part of our country is in crisis. It’s so important to add positivity, to add love and kindness and understanding to the world. If you’re new to the world of LGBT literature, I hope you’ll come […]

I'll be in Chicago at #ALAAC17, the American Library Association convention in the Diversity Pavilion Saturday and Sunday mornings. Come say hi and meet other Interlude Press authors, Nancy Stewart and Erin Finnegan and see what new LGBTQ books are on the horizon!

It’s hard to keep a secret in a small town. Even harder is keeping a secret in a deeply religious town where everyone keeps moral tabs one each other, and often under the direction of their religious leaders. My grandparents had a huge farm in a small mountain town, Lehi, Utah. My father’s high school class of 1965 had eighty-six kids. When I lived with my grandmother during college, there were about 7,000 people in the whole town. Small. Everyone knew everyone else.

Lehi is also deeply Mormon. It’s just … Continue reading

If you have somehow missed the horrorshow that is the current climate in Chechnya, gay and bisexual men (in particular, but I fear this is just the start) are being rounded up, tortured and killed for the simple fact that they are not straight. This is terrifying. This is also unacceptable. Several writers and publishers of LGBT literature have decided to do something to raise money and awareness for this … Continue reading

From Perryavenue on Tumblr: Why didn’t Renaldo and Hank carry guns with them for protection? Eduardo had a gun when he was at his parents’ home, wouldn’t Renaldo and Hank carry guns when they’re traveling along open and rough terrain with potential predators (both animal and human)? Fun (and probably shocking) fact, most cowboys didn’t […]

Salon had an article recently addressing the post Kristen Lamb posted (that I also referenced) about used bookstores, their effect on authors (short story: authors don’t see a dime from the sale of their book in them), and how that can have long-term implications to an author’s livelihood. …not so fast. The long-term implications aren’t […]

Well, lip-service is a big part of it, actually. Active lip-service?  You’ll see. I’ve spoken before about how to support authors — reviews are key, maybe even more than just you buying a copy of their book, and WHERE you should put your reviews — but I read another writer’s post that goes into the […]

One question I’ve often been asked (and I love it!) is,  “Where do the ideas for your stories come from? What’s the kernel? The 4-1-1, as the kids say (if the kids are 33).” For Bitter Springs, I stumbled across something that led me to months of research into actual LGBT history and a proper education […]

My upcoming novel BITTER SPRINGS is set in 1870′s San Felipe Del Rio (Del Rio, TX it’s called now), and it follows Renaldo Valle Santos (I use Spanish naming protocol, in which the mother’s surname is added after the paternal family name). Renaldo has a twin sister Calandaría, and she’s a bit of a spitfire. […]