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Fran Laniado- Author

Welcome to the website of YA Fantasy author Fran Laniado

Writing Samples

Here are some places that you can read to sample a bit of my work.

My flash fiction, Following the Ghost, can be read here.

Snow Sister is a winter fairy tale that appeared in the December 2019 issue of Enchanted Conversation magazine. It can be read here.

You can read some nonfiction writing that I’ve done here

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In late 2022, I started reading Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize winning novel, The Luminaries. I quickly put it aside. At the time I really wanted an absorbing, easy read, and this was not that! But in early 2023, I learned that @bernie.lombardi was going to host a read-along of the novel. I figured I'd revisit it with the help of a schedule and the support of a group.

I've recently discovered @sleepybookshelfpod and I love it. Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep because my mind is still running. When that happens, these audiobooks for sleep divert my mind enough so that I can drift off. The books are, for the most part, gentle stories. Some are aimed at younger readers, some older, some are long, some are short. But if it's a longer book that's read over a number of episodes, there's always a detailed summary of the last installment before each new episode, so no worries if you fall asleep halfway through. Each episode begins with a short moment of relaxation. The reader also has a soothing voice that lulls you to sleep.

Met Jane Austen's The Beautiful Cassandra in the library today. Austen was only 12 or 13 when she wrote this book dedicated to her sister, Cassandra. There are 12 chapters here, but each is only a sentence or two long so it doesn't take much time to read! The title character is a 16 year old budding criminal, who wanders around London eating ice cream, taking coach rides, and not paying for any of it. In the afterward, Austen scholar Claudia L. Johnson calls it a "precocious work...anticipating her mature irony, sense of the absurd, gift of parody, and...stylistic mastery."

Caught the Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind exhibit at the NYPL yesterday. Really interesting look at a fascinating woman, with diary entries, sketches, manuscripts with revisions, photos, first editions and more.

The sun is shining but feels to cold to do much of anything outdoors today, so I spent my Sunday morning watching Catherine, Called Birdy on Amazon Prime. Overall I found it to be an enjoyable adaption of on of my favorite middle grade novels (aka novels for late elementary/middle school age) but I did have a few issues with the ending.

Even though it's been about a million years since I last went trick or treating, I think I'll always love the sense of magic in the air throughout October. My last two reads have been very seasonally appropriate. Though, of course, now I'm planning to move to a quaint town in the countryside to become a witch!

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