LAURA MONTGOMERY

The grand finale to the Waking Late trilogy is coming soon.  Here’s the blurb: The starship Valerie Hall failed to reach the terraformed world of its original destination. Instead, it found a habitable substitute where the settlers split into two factions. First Landing devolved into a rude replica of medieval despotism. Seccon might promise more….

I am starting to get launch fever.  Apparently, one can get it not just for rocket launches, but for book launches, too. I first heard about launch fever when I worked at the FAA.  We were studying and adopting the Air Force’s safety requirements for incorporation into FAA regulations.  We at the FAA called this…

If you are interested, the podcast of my appearance on the Space Show is available now here.  Dr. Livingston and I talked about regulation, property rights, and planetary protection.  We had a good chat. by

Rapunzel is now live!  It’s available on Amazon for Kindle and through Kindle Unlimited. FAA attorney Terrence Rogers dreams of space, but he spends his days on informed consent for space tourists. Young foreign service officer Hal Cooper faces real change with the arrival of an alien spaceship, but it means something else for Terrence….

LibertyCon was tremendous fun.  This year I attended more readings.  I got to hear Martin Shoemaker read from his upcoming novel–which I will definitely be getting.  Monalisa Foster read from her contribution to the anthology, To Be Men.  “Cooper” is a haunting story, and I’ll be picking up that one as well.  Les Johnson talked…

I’m so excited to be attending LibertyCon in Chattanooga, Tennessee this weekend.  I will get to see my science fiction friends, old and new, and attend all sorts of cool panels and events. This year, now that I have conquered the obstacle of producing books in paperback, I will even have an author table.  Thanks…

Because I’m a space lawyer in my day job, I’ve been told that I should write a book on space law for science fiction writers.  I’ve been thinking about that.  Over at GroundBasedSpaceMatters.com, my space law blog, I do the occasional review of near-space, near-future science fiction.  I review the story to illustrate a point…

For those of you who enjoy the legal issues in my Ground Based Universe, you might be interested to know that I have a short article addressing space treaty issues in the new edition of the Astrosociological Insights newsletter.  You can find it here. The summary gives you a sense of how the outer space…

EARLY SPACEPORTS is available on Kindle Unlimited for free for the next few days.  For you Waking Late fans who’ve been pondering whether to try the Ground Based Universe, this is your chance to check it out.  These stories have lawyers and space law, and are much more bourgeois, but that can be a good…

My Waking Late trilogy is almost done.  It started with SLEEPING DUTY, the story of a space marine trapped on a lost medieval colony planet.   OUT OF THE DELL continues the story, and now the third one, LIKE A CONTINENTAL SOLDIER, is with its final beta reader. This means I’ve started working with my fabulous…