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Laura Whitcomb
Laura Whitcomb is an American novelist, born on December 19th 1958. Whitcomb grew up in Pasadena California in a mildly haunted house. She received a degree in English from California State University in 1993. Whitcomb has written several books including: A Certain Slant of Light, and The Fetch. She also has written a couple how to books titled Novel Shortcuts: Ten Techniques to Ensure a Great First Draft, and Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving your dreams.

Life and Career
Laura Whitcomb is an American novelist, she was born and raised in Pasadena California in 1958 in a mildly haunted house. After receiving her degree in English from California State University she went on to teach language arts in California and in Hawaii. She has written many successful books, her most popular being A Certain Slant of Light. "In her spare time she sings madrigals with the Sherwood Renaissance Singers and is the props mistress for the Portland Christmas Revels."

Awards and Achievements
Laura Whitcomb has won three Kay Snow awards and was runner-up in the Bulwer-Lytton Writing Contest. She is a member of the Authors Guild and the Authors League of America. She was a teacher of language arts in California and Hawaii. Also the movie writes for A Certain Slant of Light were sold to Warner Brothers. and the novel has also been adapted as an audiobook.

A Certain Slant of Light
Plot: Helen is a ghost that has been dead for over a century, she haunts a high school English teacher and exists as light. For the 130 years Helen has been dead she has never met another being such as herself until she meets James. James is also light but has found a way to embody a soulless boy named Billy in Helen's hosts English class. What stars as mere curiosity quickly turns into a passionate romance. They realize at once that they must find a way to be together so James helps Helen find Jenny, another soulless teenager. After embodying Jenny Helen realizes that being mortal again comes at a high cost. She is faced with the stresses of living in a fundamental Christian home and the return of painful memories from her old life. Her and James realize the repercussions of there actions and try to resolve not only there problems but also help Jenny and Billy start fresh when their souls move back into their bodies.

The Fetch
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Novel Shortcuts: Ten Techniques to Ensure a Great First Draft
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Your First Novel: An Author Agent Team Share the Keys to Achieving your dreams
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