by Lauren Rico | Feb 17, 2018 | Personal Insights
New year. New website. New blog. New me. That’s a whole lotta newness going on, right? Yeah, well, sometimes it just happens that way. I mean, 2017 was a very eventful year … my first two traditionally-published novels, Solo and Blame it on the Bet were...
by Lauren Rico | Jul 31, 2017 | Writing
To the best of my knowledge, no one ever accused Dr. Seuss of being, well…a Grinch…after he wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Nor, do I believe anyone called J.K. Rowling a soul-sucking lord of darkness and destruction because she created the character...
by Lauren Rico | Jul 4, 2017 | Personal Insights
The first man that I ever loved died this week. We were together, on and off, for ten stormy years. Untreated depression made me difficult. Unchecked insecurity made him arrogant. We fought and we made up and we fought some more. Still, somehow, we stuck together...
by Lauren Rico | May 5, 2017 | Capturing Music in Words
When it was time for me to move on from my Reverie Trilogy, I was very anxious, afraid I might turn out to be a ‘one trick pony.’ What if I couldn’t create any more characters? What if I couldn’t come up with a new, compelling storyline?...
by Lauren Rico | Feb 9, 2017 | Personal Insights
Once upon a time… I had a great job in Minnesota. I owned my own home and had a super-sweet pup. My life was filled with friends and music and a whole lotta snow! One summer, I returned to Long Island to visit my grandmother for the Fourth of July holiday. I...
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