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Thank you, Laika

October 26, 2018 Laura Mauro3 Comments

  I think there is probably a limit to the number of times I'm permitted to mention That Thing That Happened before I become incredibly annoying, so let me get it out of the way: I only went and won a bloody British Fantasy Award, didn't I? The award-winning (!?) story in question is "Looking… Continue reading Thank you, Laika

Where You Can Find Me At Fantasycon 2018 (if you want to)

October 17, 2018October 17, 2018 Laura MauroLeave a comment

Due to the often ad-hoc nature of Fantasycon I can't guarantee I'll be in any one place at any given time, except for those panels and so forth that I've signed up to do. So, I'll list those below. But if you happen to be at Fantasycon and you'd like to say hello - please… Continue reading Where You Can Find Me At Fantasycon 2018 (if you want to)

Fantasycon 2017

October 3, 2017 Laura Mauro4 Comments

a politer bunch of reprobates you'll never meet Fantasycon 2017 has been and gone, and in its wake that peculiar sense of almost-bereavement. You forget, over the course of the year, how liberating events like Fantasycon can be. It really is a rare pleasure to find yourself surrounded by people who 'get it': the largely… Continue reading Fantasycon 2017

Fantasycon 2017 – my schedule

September 16, 2017 Laura MauroLeave a comment

Not my entire schedule - I'm not that well organised (and my Fantasycon experience is that no matter how well organised you are, your plans WILL fall by the wayside!) But I am scheduled for a reading and a panel, and the details of those are below:   Saturday 11am - Sandringham Reading Room Weird… Continue reading Fantasycon 2017 – my schedule

a brief word on fantasycon

September 27, 2016 Laura Mauro5 Comments

I'm not going to do a long post naming names and all that like I did last year - partly for fear of forgetting people, and partly because I'm still zonked and energy is a precious commodity (but you all know who you are, I hope!) Suffice to say, Fantasycon by the Sea was a… Continue reading a brief word on fantasycon

fantasycon & the onion of joy

September 21, 2016September 21, 2016 Laura MauroLeave a comment

Fantasycon is almost upon us, and as I frantically attempt to get my game face on, I realise I've not amassed any kind of a schedule or plan as to where I'll be at any given time. The only place I'm guaranteed to be is at the launch for Great British Horror 1: Green and… Continue reading fantasycon & the onion of joy

Things upcoming…

June 20, 2015 Laura MauroLeave a comment

A variety of things coming from or involving me in the near future, and really I ought to have been a little bit more 'on this' (I am my own worst publicist) So, firstly: My short story 'The Fragility of Flesh' will be appearing in Wild Things, from Great British Horror Books/KnightWatch Press, edited by… Continue reading Things upcoming…

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

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