LAUREN FERRELL:

Crime Thriller, Suspense and Speculative Fiction Author.

Lauren, is a Chester, Virginia based writer. She has always loved reading and still has fond memories of going to the BookMobile with her family to check out books. Ferrell started reading Alfred Hitchcock books, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Louis L’Amour and Agatha Christy then discovered the joys of science-fiction from a friend. She read every pre-moonwalk short-story she could find. Ferrell read sci-fi novels by authors like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Douglas Adams and went on to read books by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and Jack Kerouac.

On a more contemporary level, she has read books by Will Self, Jeff Noon, Janice Galloway, Iain Banks, Douglas Coupland, Michael Talbot and Michio Kaku. Impossible to name them all, but as you can see, she has a large range of genres she still enjoys reading.

Ferrell has written all her life, but never took it serious until she sat down and started writing what would turn out to be her first novel. After writing several science-fiction short-stories and having several short stories, essays and poems published online, she came up for the idea of a first novel when she had created a character for some short writings. Liking the character so much, Ferrell decided she would be a great main character for a story. She jotted down the general idea for the book and named the novel Orange. That same character, Demen, was carried over to her second novel Fall On Me. Both books were written in her pen name Rowan Lore. She is now using her real name Lauren Ferrell as she is crossing genres to a more darker area of fiction. Ferrell's current novel deals with a murder that was first ruled as an accident and has a paranormal element in it. She is currently writing that novel, called, How Strange the Pain.