{"id":38,"date":"2016-06-26T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2020-12-30T04:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:01:51","slug":"start-here","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/start-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi, and welcome to my site! I&#8217;m Layla Lawlor, a full-time writer living in Fairbanks, AK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I write fiction under the following pen names:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Layla Lawlor &#8211; urban fantasy, fantasy, and science fiction. Current series: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08CHHY23N\">Gatekeeper series<\/a> (New Adult urban fantasy) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08MWWKL63\">Keeley &amp; Associates<\/a> (urban fantasy mystery). See the <a href=\"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/books\/\">books page<\/a> for the full list.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/laurenesker.com\/\">Lauren Esker<\/a> &#8211; M\/F paranormal romance and sci-fi romance.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoechant.com\/\">Zoe Chant<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m one of a small group of friends writing M\/F shifter romance under the Zoe Chant pen name. Zoe&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B077GX8NZR\/ref=series_rw_dp_sw\">Bears of Pinerock County<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B079VRGBLK\/?ie=UTF8&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=series_rw_dp_sw\">Bodyguard Shifters<\/a> series are mine, as well as some standalones.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Comics and Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My main comics project right now is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kismetcity.com\/\">Kismet<\/a>, a long-running space opera webcomic. The current book, <a href=\"http:\/\/suncutter.tumblr.com\/\">Sun-Cutter<\/a>, updates with a new page every Monday; it&#8217;s in the final chapter and will likely finish sometime in 2020. The previous book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kismetcity.com\/huntersmoon\/hmchapterindex.shtml\">Hunter&#8217;s Moon<\/a>, can be read online for free. I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/laylalawlor\">Patreon<\/a> for Kismet where I share sketchbook material and glimpses of pages in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also do a limited number of local shows a year selling books, art, and hand-painted ornaments, usually sharing a table with Ellen Million of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/\">Ellen Million Graphics<\/a>. Ellen and I have collaborated on a series of Alaska-themed coloring books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/coloringbook.php?id=67\">Wildflowers of Alaska<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/coloringbook.php?id=75\">Wild Alaska Teas<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/coloringbook.php?id=76\">Wild Birds of Alaska<\/a> (this last one with several other artists). These can be bought from Ellen&#8217;s website, from Amazon, and in local stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where to find me and my projects:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/books\/\">Books<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/comics\/\">Comics<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MagicMayhemMystery\/\">Facebook<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/laylalawlor?ty=h\">Patreon<\/a>&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribepage.com\/laylaslist\">Mailing List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, and welcome to my site! I&#8217;m Layla Lawlor, a full-time writer living in Fairbanks, AK. Books I write fiction under the following pen names: Layla Lawlor &#8211; urban fantasy, fantasy, and science fiction. Current series: Gatekeeper series (New Adult urban fantasy) and Keeley &amp; Associates (urban fantasy mystery). See the books page for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/start-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Start Here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laylalawlor.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}