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Month: December 2014

conquering challenges

December 23, 2014 Laura MauroLeave a comment

As a writer, you're constantly challenging yourself to try new things. New formats, new styles, new concepts. Pushing yourself out of the comfort zone you've built for yourself. It's how we grow as writers - the risks we take either improve us, or show us where our weaknesses lie (arguably, that's also a form of… Continue reading conquering challenges

Soundtrack To Writing

December 13, 2014 Laura MauroLeave a comment

Some people write with music, some people need dead silence. I also know people who can work happily with the TV on. For me, some kind of sound is necessary - although if it's a playlist full of songs I know very well, I'll inevitably end up singing along. Whilst writing the novella, I've had… Continue reading Soundtrack To Writing

I do like to be beside the seaside

December 5, 2014 Laura MauroLeave a comment

A bit of my heart belongs by the sea. I can't explain why this is. I was born and raised in Elephant and Castle, where the closest thing to the seaside experience is the nasal squawk of seagulls fighting over the remnants of a Perfect Fried Chicken box meal. Childhood trips to the seaside feature… Continue reading I do like to be beside the seaside

Sometimes People Say Nice Things:

“Mauro has a lot of literary knack on top of her weird fiction capacities making her stories well formed, beautiful, sometimes scary and always strange. The strangeness is magical as a reader because it deliberately alters your perception, rendering you more curious and open to what a story has to say.” – Gemma Webster, Fiction Unbound

“Mauro distorts quaint divides between the inhuman and the human too; often a source of deep anxiety, but also of curiosity about ourselves unexpectedly exposed as alien, as always having been alien.” – Rowan Fortune, Medium.com

“Sing Your Sadness Deep, will have you running through every emotion, from joy to despair, from warmth to revulsion, with its transcendent look at the human condition.” – Ginger Nuts of Horror

“Personally, I think that love and acceptance take the center stage in many of the stories that Mauro writes. Mauro weaves love through the horror of many of the stories which such ease which says a lot about her as a writer.” – Toni the Reader

“It’s easy enough to state that the debut collection by Laura Mauro, Sing Your Sadness Deep (Undertow), is a work of fine and accomplished writing, as near to flawless in its execution as you might wish for. Her language is evocative but clear; her characterisation is compelling.” – Grey Dog Tales

“With its well-honed prose, this collection shows us a writer who is focused intimately on the seams in a naturalistic present through which otherworldly pains—and a few pleasures—leak.” – Locus Magazine

Recent Posts

  • On The Shoulders of Otava
  • “Sing Your Sadness Deep” and “The Pain-Eater’s Daughter” nominated for British Fantasy Awards
  • Sing Your Sadness Deep reviewed in Japan
  • Writing the Weird at Cymera 2020
  • Ptichka, read by Daniel Pietersen

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