About Laura
Laura Baumbach is the
best-selling, multi-award winning, acclaimed author of short stories,
novellas, novels and screenplays. Most recently, Mexican
Heat, written in collaboration with Josh Lanyon, has
been chosen as a FINALIST for Best Gay Romance in the 2009
Lambda Literary Awards, a FINALIST in the 2010
EPPIE Awards, and has received an Honorable Mention at the
2009 San Francisco Book Festival. Laura was nominated for Best
GBLT Author 2008 in the LRC's Best Of Awards for 2008.
Her adventure story The Lost Temple of Karttikeya won the 2008
EPPIE Award for Best GLBT novel. Her sequel to the best-selling novel A Bit
of Rough, Roughhousing, was 2007 Reviewers' Choice Award Winner.
Details of the Hunt, a 2006 EPPIE Finalist, in its mainstream 'buddy' version, was selected as a Semi-finalist in the 2007 Shriekfest Screenplay competition as well as becoming the winner of Best Telefilm in the aTalentScout, Winter 2004 TV writing contest, and the Fort Bend Writers Guild Screenplay writing Contest for Spring of 2005.
A retired nurse, Laura devotes herself fulltime to publishing and writing. She is the ownerof ManLoveRomance Press, a small print publishing house that specializes in gay erotic romance, mystery and fiction. (http://www.mlrpress.com) MLR Press was founded in January of 2007, publishing authors such as Richard Stevenson, author of the Donald Strachey Mystery series and J.S.Cook, author of the Inspector Raft Mystery Series. She is also the owner of the promotional co-op for authors of gay romance and fiction, Manloveromance.com.
