Laura Roberts can leg-press an average-sized sumo wrestler, has written an entire novel in just three days, and publishes books that press buttons at Buttontapper Press. She currently lives in Sacramento, California with her artist husband and their literary kitties. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Laura has penned 15 books for adults, including the alphabetical travel guides Montreal from A to Z and San Diego from A to Z, the offbeat writing guides NaNoWriMo: A Cheater’s Guide and Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist, the satirical adventure tale Ninjas of the 512, and various steamy romances under the pen name Laure L’Amour, as well as three nonfiction career guides for young adults (Careers in Gaming, Careers If You Like Music and Careers in Digital Media) published by ReferencePoint Press. She has also contributed shorter works to the following anthologies: The San Diego Writers & Editors Guild’s 5th edition of The Guilded Pen; Diane Lee’s nonfiction collection, The Secret Lives of Writers; the cancer charity anthology Stardust, Always; Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers; and Ironology 2014: The Iron Writer Championship Series. In addition to her writing, Laura is the editor of the poetry collection Haiku for Lovers, and the ethnomusicological anthology Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs, and the founder of the literary magazine Black Heart.
