About This Space
Hi, I’m Laura.
I’m an American living in the Cotswolds, writing a book I should have started years ago.
I’ve spent most of my adult life inside stories, working in publishing since 2009 across editorial, marketing, and digital roles. I’ve helped shape other writers’ books at places like Scholastic, Macmillan, Bloomsbury Children’s, Oxford University Press, Pearson, and SPCK.
But this space isn’t about my résumé.
It’s about what I learned while standing next to other people’s voices while my own stayed quiet.
Not because it wasn’t there, but because I was taught to be soft-spoken, uncontroversial, and careful.
By the time I noticed, I was so practiced at not using my voice that silence felt safer than sound.
This space is what happens when I stopped waiting to feel ready.
Unfinished. Sometimes unsure. Still choosing my voice.
If you recognize yourself in that, you’re in the right place.
In between drafts.
In between versions of myself.
What I Believe
I believe imagination isn’t an escape.
It’s rehearsal.
I believe becoming yourself is harder, and braver, than perfecting a version others approve of.
I believe stories don’t just entertain us.
They teach us how to choose.
And I believe a life lived deliberately, with attention, ritual, and a little weirdness, is worth more than being palatable.
At home.
Among the stories that shaped me.
Why This Exists
This space exists for the moment when you realise you’ve been living smaller than your inner life.
For the girls who grew up inside books and are now trying to translate that courage into real choices.
For anyone learning, slowly and imperfectly, to stop managing how they’re perceived and start trusting what feels true.
I’m building the space I needed when I knew something was stirring, but didn’t yet have the language for it.
Some thoughts need quiet to arrive.
Where This Leads
Some of these thoughts live here, unfinished and evolving, written in the margins as I go.
Some live inside The Heroine Circle.
A shared practice space for reading, reflection, and becoming, without performance.
There’s no rush.
No expectation to be articulate or certain.
You’re welcome to step inside when you’re ready.