Laurie Graves is a blogger (www.hinterlands.me) with an international following. As a result, Maya and the Book of Everything has sold in Ireland and Canada as well as in the United States, from Maine to Ohio to California. The book has received excellent reviews in Amazon and on Goodreads. She maintains an author website (www.lauriegraves.me), and has a strong presence on Facebook. Laurie Graves is available for author talks, book signings, and has a formal presentation, Threads of Realism in Fantasy: Maya, Maine, and the Franco-American Connection. With her books and her presentation, she travels statewide.
She likes to say she was born in County Tolkien, but really she was born in Kennebec County—in Waterville, Maine—and is a fifth-generation Mainer and a Franco-American. With her husband Clif Graves, Laurie Graves published the magazine Wolf Moon Journal for seven years, where she wrote essays and edited pieces that went in the journal. Her essay, “On Being Franco-American” has been read on the radio and is used in a French study class at the University of Maine at Orono. Laurie Graves has been published in the anthology Heliotrope: French Heritage Women Create and in magazines and journals.
Maya and the Book of Everything - Book One of the Great Library Series
“This is an excellently crafted urban fantasy, one that teens and adults will like a lot. From the moment you meet Maya on a Boston-bound train until the very surprising twist at the end, which so smoothly sets up the next book, you’re in for an adventure.”
-John Clark, retired librarian
“The story grips you right out of the gate and continues straight through to the last page.”
~Melissa Gillan, www.thearanartisan.com, County Galway, Ireland
Library Lost - Book Two of the Great Library Series
"Perfect escape, though often very realistic, as far as peoples' behavior and motives are concerned.
Good ideas. Fast Plot. Endearing characters. Places, where one would like to stay."
~ Amazon Review from a reader in Germany
Out of Time - Book Three of the Great Library Series
"Maya continues to be an interesting, smart, and very likable character. A girl of substance, for sure. I love the character development in this book, the action, the twists and turns and the magic, of course! It kept me reading, right to the end."
~Canadian Author Cynthia Reyes
Of Time and Magic - Book Four of the Great Library Series
More Information about Laurie Graves can be found at her Hinterlands.me Blog.