Laurie Perez's Blog

I, like you, am mostly
Water and thought, currents
Deeply stirred by roars and whispers
Born from emotion.

read WATER SPELLS & FLUID BOUNDARIES form TRUE SELF PROTECTION, by Laurie Perez in Know Thyself, Heal Thyself on Medium

Cosmic fires are lit.
Life is sparking wild...

Read HOT STRAWBERRY MOON by Laurie Perez

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a two minute read on Medium

Sneak Peak of my new novel, currently in progress

The edgy surreality of MirrorMask meets the earthy tenacity and timelessness of The Alchemist: A new novel by Laurie Perez #WIP #YA contemporary #Fantasy adventure.

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Love to read? Give yourself a shiny new e-book for $3 THE LOOK OF AMIE MARTINE "It is luminous!" #amienovels

Published today in Genius in a Bottle: a new excerpt from the novella, Virga in Death Valley. This brief scene takes place in the middle of the night and is a feast for the senses.

Read the excerpt here: Nightlight in a Secret Room by Laurie Perez

With the 3rd book set to be released on 12.10.21, I'm thrilled to announce all of my novels are available on Apple Books!

THE LOOK OF AMIE MARTINE
THE POWER OF AMIE MARTINE
THE COSMOS OF AMIE MARTINE

If you're new to the series, start with THE LOOK:

Heartbreaking losses and mystic interventions : L.A. actors, Sufi poets, deadly Dutch lovers : A sexy new take on Orpheus and Eurydice served with chasers of very cold Icelandic vodka. . . Set in Phoenix, Hollywood, Iceland, 13th century Persia and beyond the veil, THE LOOK has a vast, global scope with an intimacy you will not want to leave. "Every few pages, there's a line that cracks me wide open..."

Prefer print to digital? Get the paperbacks instead!

Virga's free again, ICYMI Amazon's been promoting it as a crime drama / paranormal mystery / violent road trip and many other mis-reps. What the novella actually presents is an intimate, sometimes gritty narrative of a boy becoming an artist in charge of his own mind.

Harleys, Mississippi bar scenes, 1970s pay phones, rain that soaks your soul in one place but leaves you parched as you grow older... Virga in Death Valley is full of love and reads "like a movie!" This week, you can get it for free. mybook.to/virga-perez

As a novelist, I apply imagination to truth
and truth to imagination. This is how
I process the world, whether or not I’m in
the act of writing.

Come on a walk with me in this visual diary



"A single grain of longing for something better
is in itself a dreamy change upon the land..." Read and view the photos in SNAPSHOTS on Medium: Obvious Grist and Hidden Stars by Laurie Perez

Once upon a time, artist, poet and avid reader, Gurpreet Dhariwal invited me to answer some deep questions. Interview with Laurie Perez published in Write Under the Moon.

Gurpreet was sweet to give me this opportunity and ply me with excuses to ramble. Give it a read!

ICYWW I'm not the horse bride in the picture 😉
Nor do I write romance novels (does it look like that to you?).

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Novels I write are not about me—my story exists outside the books I publish—yet there is no part of me separate from my work as an author.

Born from my soul and labor, writing novels is not casual, not trivial, never a passing hobby. To overlook this passion is to fail to know me.

I’m amazed by how long I lived without knowing myself.

For decades, even after winning a creative writing fellowship from my first novel, I was under a spell that canned my ability to introduce myself first and foremost as a novelist. The characters Amie, Eurydice, D, Sunny, Attar and The Actor broke that spell for good.

I am a novelist—poet, writer, storyteller with the heart of an artist. I am an author.

A life rich in people who get this—who know the inner worth of each book published—an author’s dream fulfilled.

I look forward to enjoying a life from this point forward filled with people who get what this means and shine it back to me. Readers, writers, lovers and agents of celebration in fiction and reality. For you, I am infinitely grateful.


Laurie Perez