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@laurelhollbooks
Hey there! I'm Laurel (she/they) 💖 here's a little bit about me...
✍️🏻 Contemp romance (18+) writer with plus size heroines (who love their bodies)
👀 Winks & Windows OUT NOW!
♿️ Disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent
🏳️🌈 Bisexual demigirl
📚 Reader of all genres
🖤 Still emo trash
🤓 On Tumblr in one way or another since 2009
Let's be friends and stay in touch: laurelholl.com/links
My books are for adults only so minors do not interact please 🩷
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May is EDS awareness month! Sparks Will Fly features an FMC, Mari, with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. As someone with hEDS myself, it was important to me that what's portrayed on page was more than just a "bendy body."
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Sparks fly and robots clash in this sports romance for nerds
With life stuck on hard mode, nothing is going according to plan for Mari Williams. Not her career, not her family commitments, and definitely not her lifelong dream of building combat robots for competition. When she’s offered entry into the most famous combat robotics event in the world, it’s the chance of a lifetime and an opportunity to change everything.
Battling against difficult team members, increasing chronic pain, and a terrible robot, Mari must use all her skills to find a path to victory. However, there’s one problem even her brilliant mind can’t solve: Jacob Moore, her biggest rival, childhood crush, and the man who ruined her dreams.
When Jacob tries to make amends by offering assistance, Mari must decide if giving him access to her robot means a chance to win it all, or a chance to get hurt all over again.
Sparks Will Fly is a sports romance for nerds. This rivals to lovers slow burn features a disabled plus-size heroine, a missed-connections romance, robot fights, and an underdog story full of heart. Perfect for people who wish BattleBots had kissing and fans of Ali Hazelwood.
🏆 Forced Proximity
🩷 Plus size FMC
💘 Rivals to lovers
❤️🔥 Slow burn
♿ Disability/chronic pain rep
⌛ It’s always been you
🤖 Robot fights
🌶️ Open door
Need a book for novella November?
Winks & Windows is an emotional and steamy neighbors-to-lovers contemporary romance featuring a plus-size heroine, mental health representation, and the best dog in Calysto’s Cove.
🏠 Neighbors to Lovers 🩷 Plus-size FMC 🥰 Golden retriever MMC ❤️🩹 Love after loss 🧠 Mental health rep 🔥 Slow burn 🥵 Open door 🐶 Nothing bad happens to the dog!
Read on KindleUnlimited, Kindle eBook, or paperback.
Pork Belly winds around us, leash coming around my waist. The seagull lets out a mocking caw before flying back the way it came, Pork Belly in its wake. The leash pulls me straight into a fumbling Isaac. ... "We've got to stop meeting like this."
Winks & Windows by Laurel Holl
You won't have to search hard to find love in Winks & Windows 🩷
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Stuck in your story? Put those blorbos in a new location! A new city, a different room, a different planet, a coffee shop, a street corner, a field. Doesn't matter! Just put them somewhere else and then write about how they got there, what they're doing, why they're there!
"But it doesn't make sense for them to go somewhere else." Okay, now you get to make it make sense. Plenty to write about.
"They're stuck in this location." Literally put them on the other side of the area. Why did they go there, what are they doing? Are the looking out a window? Are they trying to get some space from the other person they are with? Idk! But put that little freak on the other side of that space!
"I'm stuck mid scene and idk how to make that work." Put. That. Blorbo. Somewhere. Else. Make them run to/from something. Make them interrupt. Kidnapped. Fallen down a well. Doesn't matter! Put that character somewhere else!
The neighbors to "just friends" to lover pipeline is strong in Calysto's Cove 🩷
Winks & Windows is a love after loss romance about finding your spark for life again, chasing seagulls, mysterious packages, and hot neighbors.
🏠 Neighbors to Lovers
🩷 Plus-size FMC
🥰 Golden retriever MMC
🧠 Mental health rep
❤️🩹 Love after loss
🔥 Slow burn
🥵 Open door
🐶 Nothing bad happens to the dog!
"When veteran hunter Nadine accepts a high-payout bounty to capture a crafty alien forger, she expects an easy job... but one look at her mark tells Nadine she might've bitten off more than she can chew. On a space station full of dirty deals and luxurious lies, it seems even the simplest contracts are prone to complication."
Cat/Mouse is a fun, action-packed novella blending the staples of science fiction, noir mystery, and romance into a brisk 18,000-word package.
Digital and physical copies are available here!
The neighbors become lovers, you say? 👀
Winks & Windows by Laurel Holl
If you liked Evvie Drake Starts Over, you'll like Winks & Windows! (And vice versa!)
Similarities:
Love after loss
Neighbors to lovers
Third act breakup
Age 30+ main characters
Slow burn
Small town
Self discovery
Navigating grief
Burned out MMC
Unique to Evvie Drake Starts Over:
Baseball player MMC
Domestic violence survivor FMC
Depression rep
Conflicted feelings about loss
Full length novel, around 300 pages
Unique to Winks & Windows
Dog side character (nothing bad happens to her in any way!)
Artist MMC
Plus size FMC
Agoraphobia rep
Novella length, around 200 pages
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how non-writers think writing works: creating a detailed outline and plan, writing each section carefully and weaving in all the different story threads like a master creator, expertly creating a masterpiece with care and precision
how writing actually works: daydreaming that one scene, creating a half-formed plot in a daze all around it, swearing at characters that don't magic themselves into existence, becoming absolutely obsessed with the story for a solid week, it becomes your entire life, you sit down open a blank word document and write approximately two and a half chapters, lose interest, daydream an entirely new idea for a new story, rinse and repeat
Five books that influenced me as a writer + Bonus: shows and movies!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This book changed my brain chemistry somewhere around high school. It has a heavy impact on my writing style and some of the more abstract imagery I use. The unique style is something I think about constantly.
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
This was my first “romance” I read around early high school. The yearning! The danger! The drama! As an adult I recognize how wild this book is, but it definitely sparked a lot for me.
Dead until Dark by Charlaine Harris
I read all of the Southern Vampire Mysteries books that were available in 2011 for the first time and skipped my college classes for like two weeks to read them (oops). I was already a big fan of True Blood (still am) and the books have been a huge influence on my inner monologue style and character development!
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games books are a huge influence in my writing as far as pathetic (affectionate) men and unreliable narrators go. I credit Suzanne with teaching me incredible pacing and how to see every day things through a character’s unique eyes and life experience.
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
I got out of college and immediately stopped writing/reading (english degree struggles). The Love Hypothesis was one of the first fiction books that I picked up in years and immediately got me into romance and inspired me to start writing again! If I am in a reading or writing slump, Ali will always get me out of it.
Bonus: Fan fiction is the only fiction I read for years after college, so this being adapted fan fic and fan fic in general have had a huge influence on me!
Shows and movies that influence me Timer, The Princess Bride, School of Rock, Drop Dead Diva, The Borgias, 10 Things I Hate About You
One of these books had a direct influence on Winks & Windows. Can you guess which?
Winks & Windows is on sale! Get the ebook for only $0.99 in the US and UK until Monday at midnight!
Winks & Windows is a love after loss romance about finding your spark for life again, chasing seagulls, mysterious packages, and hot neighbors.
🏠 Neighbors to Lovers
🩷 Plus-size FMC
🥰 Golden retriever MMC
🧠 Mental health rep
❤️🩹 Love after loss
🔥 Slow burn
🥵 Open door
🐶 Nothing bad happens to the dog!
I've got a pocket full of sunshine*
*arm full of books.
Btw Winks & Windows is on sale for 99cents Aug 1 to 4! 🥰
one of my fave author things has been sending random people all over the globe stickers :)
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i’m either writing 4k words in a dissociative trance or staring at one sentence for 3 hours. no in between
