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In thirteen chapters, Laura Kalpakian provides tools to develop narrative form, scenic depiction, character development, and dialogue. All of Laura Kalpakian's books, with information about the title, where to buy, and fun anecdotes about the creative process of writing them.
- Cosette
Though I am a life-long Francophile, I had never read Les...
- Crescendo
Crescendo. Crescendo follows four generations of intertwined...
- The Music Room
Buy the book. Amazon. The Music Room. In Marcella McNeill’s...
- The Memoir Club
The Memoir Club. Can writing a memoir endow the past with a...
- Graced Land
Graced Land. Sacred to the Memory of Elvis,” proclaims the...
- The Great Pretenders
The Great Pretenders . Hollywood, 1953: From the beach at...
- The Delinquent Virgin
The Delinquent Virgin. Magic brewed from the merely...
- Caveat
Buy the book. Amazon. Caveat. For a man in the business of...
- Steps and Exes
Steps and Exes “I always believed that family could be...
- The Unruly Past
Writing a memoir tames the unruly past, but it does not make...
- Cosette
Laura Kalpakian is an award-winning American novelist of 16 novels and 4 story collections. Her work has been translated into 13 languages.
Laura Kalpakian is the internationally published author of twenty works of fiction, some under names other than her own. She has also published four collections of short fiction. In 2021 first nonfiction books appeared.
Laura Kalpakian has 38 books on Goodreads with 9546 ratings. Laura Kalpakian’s most popular book is The Great Pretenders.
Writing a memoir tames the unruly past, but it does not make it docile. Celebrated novelist Laura Kalpakian grew up in Southern California amid a blending of vastly different cultures.
Laura Kalpakian’s clever prose introduces us to a vibrant woman we can admire–a woman both brave and vulnerable. After one fearless choice, her life seems to careen toward certain wreckage, yet Roxanne is there to show us that integrity and love are the conquering powers.
She is the author of multiple novels and over a hundred stories published in collections, anthologies, literary journals and magazines in the U.S. and the U.K. A native of California, Laura lives in the Pacific Northwest.