MembreLauraParkerCastoro

I love books. I read a bit of everything. Eclectic. I began writing historical novels so I own books with titles like THE HISTORY OF SPOONS, THE HISTORY OF UNDERGARMENTS, LIFE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOME, THE HISTORY OF PERFUME, OLD FARMS, WHITE MAGIC, IRISH PLACE NAMES, PLEASURE AND PRIVILEGE, and THE GREAT CAT MASSACRE.

I own a ton of books. A real ton. The last time we moved the mover told me in weighing the truck to balance it, my books weighed in at over a ton! And that was four years ago. I don't keep them all. Lots of popular fiction goes to the library after a reading. What I keep, I love. It's going to take me a while to get it all listed here.

I write for a living, basically. It helps that I've had a spousal endowment since I began being published in 1980.

Now for the official bio:

Multi-award winning author Laura Castoro 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 Fort Worth, Texas, where she was born, to Pine Bluff, 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. Twenty-six years later with (36) thirty-six published books in print is such genres as contemporary romance, westerns, sagas, and romantic suspense; Laura Castoro is now writing about the modern woman’s life as she sees it. One review describes A New LU, her 2005 work as “…Feel good look at aging that will have women approaching 50 running fearlessly toward the number.”
Laura’s next midlife adventure is: Icing On The Cake, January 2007 release from Mira.
“After spending a night with a bread crew, as research, I’ll never complain about the price of a loaf of artisan bread again.”

A sought-after speaker and writing workshop leader, Laura believes in putting her passion for the written word to good use. She is the President of the board of the Communication Arts Institute, which oversees the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, a working writers’ residence program in Eureka Springs, AR. “It’s exhilarating to be able to help provide a haven for beginning as well as established writers. The gift of uninterrupted time with one’s muse is priceless.”

Multi-award winning author Laura was the inductee 2005 into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. She joins such writers as Dee Brown “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”, Charles Portis “True Grit,” and Paul Greenberg, Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing. Thrilled isn’t adequate to describe her feeling about this honor.