Laura Parker

Multi-award winning author Laura Parker loves to travel. She's been part of ship christening in Norway, scuba dived on the Great Barrier reef, and climbed glaciers on two continents. Her spirit for adventure may have been born when she was. At only six weeks, she made her first trip from Texas where she was born to Arkansas where she grew up. She's lived in Washington D.C., Connecticut, New Jersey, with long stretches in between under the big sky of Texas. An avid traveler, she's logged miles in England, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and Australia. The Caribbean, Mexico and Canada? Of course! Just now, she's trying to finagle a trip to China. Married with three children, Laura began her writing career while taking time off from a degree in microbiology to take care her of personal biology experiments at home, two wearing diapers, and one in kindergarten. Two years later, she sold her first book, a historical romance Silks and Sabers. Always adaptable, she decided to see how far this enterprise would take her. Her thirty romance novels are now considered classics, and many are being re-released as e-books. A sought-after speaker and writing workshop leader, Laura puts her passion for the written word to good use. She is the President of the Board of Novelists, Inc (NINC), the only writers organization devoted exclusively to the needs of multi-published novelists. She is past President and current board member of the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, a working writers' residence program in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Among her many honors is being named recipient of the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame Award for 2005 and She recently was designated by Romantic Times as a "Legend of Romance" and won the "Pioneer" award for the Romance genre.