LAURA MONTGOMERY

I’m working on a prequel series to my Waking Late trilogy.  It’s much closer in time to the original settlement of Nwwwlf, and has thus forced me to think about terraforming and how one would bring Earth’s flora, fauna, and microbial infrastructure to a new world to make it a new Earth.  That was the…

I’m looking forward to publishing my next book, the first in my new series, Martha’s Sons.  I’ve made final edits and sent Book One, Simple Service, to my proofreader.  After that, I’ll start getting it ready for print and for ebook publication. Simple Service is set in the early days of Nwwwlf, a couple centuries…

In my day job I’m a space lawyer.  That might be part of why so many lawyers show up in my Ground Based Universe.  I’m not sure, but it could be.  I’m also hopeful that we will reach other planets, and that in my lifetime I’ll get to see a person walk on the Moon…

I am a Georgette Heyer fan.  Georgette Heyer wrote Regency romances, many of them romantic comedies, that I devoured as a child and still re-read as an adult.  I believe it is now a whole sub-genre in the romance world.  I’ve read a few other Regency romances here and there, from time to time.  Other…

If everything here sucks, maybe we could leave.  I think that sums it up.  That’s the Exodus trope.  Oh, and, also, we will get a fresh start. Science fiction has a lot of this.  I was thinking about it recently because I just finished beta-reading someone’s manuscript, and it has what I call the Exodus…

When I wrote Manx Prize, which is about a race to de-orbit space debris, I relied heavily on what I’d learned from my day job as a space lawyer at the FAA.  Also, because I was terrified of getting things wrong, I researched like crazy.  I saved clippings from Space News with the inclinations, perigees…

If you are a Dorothy Dunnett fan and live in Los Angeles, I’m jealous of you.  In my daily perusal of the Federal Register’s table of contents in my other life as a lawyer, I came across the U.S. State Department’s determination of cultural significance for importation of the Medieval Book of Beasts.  I’m betting…

I was so happy the other day.  I had Simple Service ready for my beta reader.  I’d finished the re-read, fixed all the continuity errors that I could see, and hit Send. Ten minutes later I realized I hadn’t checked my list of fixes.  I keep a list as I go, and write DONE when…

I am a fan of what my brother calls “house porn.” I could spend hours going through stacks of House Beautiful and Architectural Digest–and I have. So when a list of 50 Perfect Powder Rooms showed up in my inbox , I had to peek. There are some lovely ones, of course, but #26 prompted…

Perpetual plaintiff Lewis Ostrow needs a ticket to Mars. His litigation profile renders him ineligible. Lewis, however, always stands ready to fight the system. A legal fantasy. A short story. A bit of science fiction.         by