Author Archives: Lauren Stoker

The fabulous Catriona McPherson’s latest Last Ditch mystery, Scot Mist, is out! Lexy Campbell and her pals are back, holing up during the pandemic, and racking up the laughs in this latest whodunit. Available at Amazon, but please support your local bookstores. https://www.amazon.com/Scot-Mist-Last-Ditch-mystery-ebook/dp/B09GK9J7GC

Got an email from Chicken Soup for the Soul on Feb. 24th, telling me that there was a podcast up on their site with a recap of a couple of stories in their recent anthology, Believe in Angels, and my story was the first one! You can listen to it at: https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=ADL9940329770

Old Colony Memorial press release for Blood Will Out (With the Proper Solvent), Feb. 19, 2022 https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/old-colony-memorial/2022/02/19/plymouth-author-offers-fictional-solution-protect-forests/9200548002/

She’s the best-selling author of The Keeper of Lost Things, among other works of wonder. Ruth has a truly amazing ear and eye for language, a unique “voice” to be cherished. I just finished Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel and am utterly smitten. It’s one of my favorite novels of the decade: hilariously funny and poignantContinue reading “Shout out for my new favorite author, Ruth Hogan!”

Just released January 25, 2022: Chicken Soup for the Soul’s new book: Believe in Angels. Check out a copy to read my (true) story, “A Miraculous Save.”

As the cover to Alternative Deathiness suggests, life is but a dance with death—a topic all of us are familiar with and too often want to avoid. This is not a volume to avoid.  Alternative Deathiness is a fantastic selection of short stories and poetry that includes works by veteran writers such as best-selling authorContinue reading “The fitting finish to a Deathy year …”

My short story, “To Womb It May ConCERN,” was published December 10, 2021 at Page & Spine: https://pagespineficshowcase.com/outta-this-world/to-womb-it-may-concern-lauren-stoker. Thank you, Nancy Wagner, for liking my weird sense of humor!

Great rave from N.K. Wagner, editor of Page & Spine! “Laurie, Blood Will Out (With the Proper Solvent) came last Saturday and I couldn’t put it down! Great characters and an intriguing plot. So many giggle-worthy puns. Finished it Monday morning, and I was bereft. I want more! Please write more. Nancy” (Oct. 15, 2021)

long con magazine, a Canadian journal, just published a story of mine August 31, 2021 in its Issue 8 (under my birth name): longconmag.com/issue-8. It’s an ekphrastic piece based on Degas’ painting of the same title: “The Glass of Absinthe.” Back in my UCSB days, as an art history major, the painting was one ofContinue reading “New story published”

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