Lauren Esker

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My website update is done, much sooner than expected! I decided not to completely overhaul the general look of the site, because frankly, I couldn’t find a site layout/theme that I liked better than the one I’m using now. What’s new? There is now a printable book checklist with all my books arranged by series. New & Upcoming page shows you what was just released, my last couple of releases,…

The site is going to be under construction for a bit as I rearrange my pages and get it nice and clean and up to date for you! I built this site in 2015 and it hasn’t really changed much since then, so it’s more than time for a bit of a refresh. Photo of marigolds from my garden! It’s frosting now, so I cut a bunch of them and brought them inside before the frost.

I’ve updated the books page so that my books are no longer broken out as Lauren and as Zoe; I’ve combined the cover branding and there really isn’t much of a difference anymore. If you want a quick-start guide to my series, here are all of them. (Links go to their Amazon series pages.) Shifter Agents – paranormal romantic suspense, longer books, no fated mates Bodyguard Shifters – fated mates,…

I’ve been doing some general updates and edits to the site, and I’ve added a Zoe Chant section at the top of the FAQ to explain how that works, now that my Lauren and Zoe books are effectively merging. Werewolf Hunter comes out on the 15th, and beyond that, there’s a Galatea Complete Collection and more Shifter Agents coming in 2024!

Also posted at the Facebook group, I made myself this cute progress chart to keep track of where I am in all my various projects for current pen names. I’m working on Metal Gladiator this week and next!

It looks like I last posted to this blog in Jan. 2020. Well. This has been a couple of years, hasn’t it? I’ve got the site spiffed up and all the new stuff added, primarily: Thorn & Rose – free for download and also $0.99 on AmazonMetal Gladiator up for preorder!New Shifter Agents story – Jewel BrightNew cover and edits for Merry & Bright (free on Bookfunnel, also now on Amazon) The FAQ has…

Here is a quick-and-dirty map I put together for my own reference of where the different Shifter Crimes Bureau field offices and (approximate) jurisdictions are. I am not sure why I used the Cancer zodiac symbol to represent them. I was trying to find a star in my wingdings font, but I found that and I just liked it? Anyway, there are five regional offices. We will get our first look at the…

It doesn’t look completely cray from the outside.

More than a little on the ostentatious side, but not as wildly OTT as the inside turns out to be.

BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS PLACE.

Is that an ornamental piano stationed above the foyer? WHY YES IT IS!

Every staircase needs some 12-foot palm trees!

Also taxidermied owls? eagles? flying around up top. FOR REASONS.

The home theater system is an ACTUAL THEATER.

There are 7 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, including this one with a fireplace.

Pretty sure that bay window has a tree living in it.

So, yeah, this house is precisely on the correct side of WTF for what I’m writing about, and I am totally going to put my characters in it, or I should say in a fictional house which is in no way this one.

:D yeah! I just finished wolf in sheeps clothing and a reread of the shifter agents books! Can't wait for this one!

Progress report: Jan 2017

It’s 2017! Where did my word count go?? As you may have noticed, I haven’t had a book out since May. That is, shall we say, not how I planned things. The Noah book has been a really slow one to write, plus it’s turning out to be one of the long ones (I’m optimistically aiming for 120K now, about the same length as Guard Wolf; this is up from an original estimate of 60K). During the times I’m…